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How Sandbox Learning Became The Future Of Education
It is 2013, and highly-structured, formal learning environments may have run their course. In many ways, the internet was the catalyst for this. As blogs and social media exploded in popularity, they have subsequently de-credited…
4 Important Questions That Precede The Design Of A Modern Education
What Does A Modern Education Look Like? by Marie Bjerede first appeared on gettingsmart.com Well into the 21st century, we are still trying to get a handle on what a 21st century education really is – both the…
20 BYOD Resources For The 21st Century School
by Hope Mulholland, TeachThought Intern BYOD policies–Bring Your Own Device–allow schools to bring technology into the classroom with a “bottom-up” approach. Such an approach can save money, allow students to use their own devices, and encourage…
4 Essential Rules Of 21st Century Learning
by Jennifer Rita Nichols, TeachThought Intern 4 Essential Rules Of 21st Century Learning The term “21st century” has become an integral part of educational thinking and planning for the future. Educators and administrators are actively…
12 Questions To Promote Self-Knowledge In Students
Why should someone learn? While Paulo Freire, John Dewey, and others have provided compelling arguments for what might be the goal of education, learning and education are not one and the same. One simple overarching goal of…
12 Powerful New Ideas For 21st Century Learning
How we learn is changing in response to a changing environment, from fluid digital environments to constant access to information, incredible peer networks to learning simulations, 21st century learning is teeming with possible learning pathways….
5 Ways Schools Can Think Like Startups
This is the age of the startup. The age where a teenager can change the world from his basement, and almost daily new apps and platforms are launched with the modest goal of, well, changing…
30 Incredible Ways Technology Will Change Education By 2028
Technology is changing at a rapid pace, so much so that it’s challenging to grasp. While there is little uniformity in technology, there are some trends worth noting that have spurred tangent innovation, including speed…
27 Actions That Promote Self-Directed Learning
So I’m trying to better understand how people learn–not now they’re taught in terms of teaching strategies, but more so learning strategies–only not really strategies. Learning actions, or cognitive actions. Self-directed and social learning will…
How To Prepare Students For 21st Century Survival
by Jennifer Rita Nichols, TeachThought Intern As educators, we constantly strive to prepare our students for the ‘real world’ that exists around them. We teach them how to read, write, and calculate. Then, of course,…
Learning In The 21st Century Might Only Require These 3 Things
by Iain Lancaster, TeachThought Intern Sugata Mitra’s award winning TED Talk about “building a school in the cloud” is more than just a compendium of thought provoking notions regarding the future of education. In the…
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