How Rapid Technology Change Impacts Your Teaching
Change is a key characteristic of the 21st century–a cause & effect. And change in education technology specifically can impact your teaching.
12 Things Every Modern Classroom Should Have
Every classroom is as different as the person creating it. But are there any common elements that every modern classroom should share?
What Is The Feynman Technique?
To use the Feynman Technique, practice explaining a concept to others as simply as possible. Make it simple, then make it simple again.
The Cognitive Biases List: A Visual Of 180+ Heuristics
Cognitive biases are tendencies to selectively search for or interpret data in a way that confirms one’s existing beliefs.
Why Questions Are More Important Than Answers
Why are questions more important than answers? Because answers stop learning while questions start it, contextualizing what we don’t know.
The Assimilation vs Accommodation Of Knowledge
Piaget was interested in how children organize data, settling on 2 fundamental responses stimuli: assimilation & accommodation of knowledge.
How David Foster Wallace Taught Students To Respond To One Another’s Writing
The reader, in fact, will feel about you, your subject, and your essay only what your written words themselves induce her to feel.
Opinion: Protect The Taxi Cab Industry From Innovation
Opinion: Protect The Taxi Cab Industry From Innovation by Terry Heick We have to protect the taxicab industry from disruptive innovation. After a century of dominance in the moving-very-small-groups-of-people-around-a-city market, outside forces have disrupted cabs as the de facto method for people-moving. From automotive manufacturers who manufacture fleet-friendly automobiles often used as cabs to the…
50 Challenging Activities To Promote Digital Media Literacy In Students
Here are 50 ways teachers across content areas–and homeschooled learners too–can promote digital media literacy.
Here’s What Students Do Better Than Teachers
Getting students to ‘think about their future’ turns into a lecture about bills and ‘life’; we project our insecurities and failures on them.
Teaching Is Establishing The Need To Know
‘Not knowing’ is clumsy, precise label for the starting point of learning. Teaching is, at least in part, establishing the need to know.
12 Things Schools Could Be Instead Of Schools
There’s no reason a ‘school’ can’t become a tech-infused place-based learning environment that focuses on literacy and civic participation.
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