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…
Tagged By 21st century learning
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…
A Simple Acronym For Encouraging Digital Citizenship
Digital citizenship, as we’ve theorized, has something to do with the “The quality of habits, actions, and consumption patterns that impact the ecology of digital content and communities.” In education, we love acronyms and initialisms–IEP,…
Dissolving Barriers To Adopting Technology In The Classroom
Dissolving Barriers To Adopting Technology In The Classroom How the Other Half Lives: A Report from the 2013 Highlander Institute Blended Learning Conference by Dawn Casey-Rowe, Social Studies & Educational Technology Last weekend, the Second…
The Definition Of Digital Citizenship
As more and more students interact digitally–with content, one another, and various communities–the concept of digital citizenship becomes increasingly important. Which begs the question: what is digital citizenship? Well, first citizenship, which is formally defined…
What Happens When Students Are Simply Free To Learn?
If you could learn about anything, what would you choose to learn? If you gave this freedom to your students, what would they choose? Last fall, Patti Grayson shared with a few friends and me…
The 5 Interactions Of A Robust Blended Learning Model
by Thomas Stanley, Project Learning LLC Ideas for Creating an Interactive Blended Learning Experience There are, sometimes frustratingly, a number of ways to teach in the online world. Some programs are credit retrieval, others are…
A Glimpse At The BYOD Device Of The Future
BYOD has changed how the barriers of tech adoption are seen. First and foremost, they’re now visible (the barriers). Many schools and districts are finding that in the current organizational context, BYOD is not as…
4 Stages: The Integration Of Technology In Learning
Technology can be used in the learning process in a variety of ways. Some are supplementary, serving the original design of the classroom and usually automate some previously by-human task or process–grading multiple choice assessments,…
61 Educational Apps For The 21st Century Student
It’s not entirely clear what it means to be a “21st century student.” And in 2013, it’s also not entirely clear what the definition of an “educational app” might be. Just as students are no…
What Kind Of World Are We Preparing Students For?
by Jennifer Rita Nichols, TeachThought Intern Most educators can agree that the biggest trend in education today has to do with technology integration. As more and more schools find ways to use technology in the…
Most Popular This Year
The Definition Of Digital Citizenship
How 21st Century Thinking Is Just Different
The 55 Best Free Education Apps For iPad
9 Characteristics Of 21st Century Learning
23 Ways To Use The iPad In The 21st Century PBL Classroom
15 Free Learning Tools You’ve Probably Never Heard Of
11 Essential Tools For Better Project-Based Learning
50 Top Sources Of Free eLearning Courses
46 Tools To Make Infographics In The Classroom
6 Types of Blended Learning
60 Ways To Use Twitter In The Classroom By Category
55 Content Curation Tools To Discover & Share Digital Content
12 Principles Of Mobile Learning
1 Certainty & 25 Possibilities: What To Expect From Education In 2013
