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Posts By Terry Heick
Why The Best Teachers Change Their Minds
Why The Best Teachers Change Their Minds When I first started teaching, I thought essay writing was the ideal form of assessment. If students could “write intelligently” about an idea (or the big idea of…
4 Keys To Designing A Project-Based Learning Classroom
Traditional American classrooms tend to fit a particular mold: Students face the front of the class where teachers lecture. Students take notes, finish assignments at home, and hope to memorize enough information just long enough…
6 Channels Of 21st Century Learning
At TeachThought, we constantly wrestle with two big questions: How do people learn, and how can they do it better in a constantly evolving context? In pursuit, the theme of “21st century learning” often surfaces,…
What Connected Learning Truly Promotes Might Surprise You
Technology has entered society like a massive, happy storm, and left few things unaffected. It was only a generation ago that technology took the form of cordless phones, cable television, and the soul-deleting wizardry of…
This Is Water: David Foster Wallace Explains How We All Misunderstand The Point Of Education
This Is Water: David Foster Wallace Explains How We All Misunderstand The Point Of Education To you and I–as educators of some sort or experience–education is a system of moving parts designed to help students…
10 Brilliant Examples Of Sketch Notes: Notetaking For The 21st Century
Sketch notes–or graphic notes, or whatever other term you like–are one of the single most important developments in note-taking history. Hold on, give me a second to explain. Exactly why they matter has something to…
Exactly What The Common Core Standards Say About Technology
The Common Core Standards, the national academic standards for K-12 schools in the United States, have now been adopted by 47 of the 50 states in the U.S. This makes them the pre-eminent source of…
A Primer In Heutagogy And Self-Directed Learning
Jackie Gerstein’s passionate thinking about learning is some of my favorite to read. She is rarely pulled down by trend or fad, but is unquestionably progressive and forward-thinking in her approaches to learning and thinking…
The Difference Between Instructivism, Constructivism, And Connectivism
We spend so much time in education trying to make things better. Better policies. Better technology. Better standards. Better curriculum. Better instruction. Better assessment. Better response to assessment data. And too with research, teacher collaboration,…
Learning Relationships: “Kid’s Can’t Learn From Teachers They Don’t Like”
Learning Relationships: “Kid’s Can’t Learn From Teachers They Don’t Like” The following TEDTalk by Rita Pierson has been making the digital rounds lately, and for good reason: it reminds us of why we all got…
25 Top Concept-Mapping Tools For Visual Learning
Concept-mapping–or mind-mapping, idea-mapping, or some other variation that makes sense to you–is the practice of demonstrating the relationship between ideas in a map-like form. Concept-mapping allows creators to articulate nuance, context, and interdependence between ideas…
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