How To Get Along With Teachers Who Think Differently Than You
One would think that as long as both teachers teach to those ‘same standards,’ all would be well, but it’s not always that’s simple.
Author: Terrell Heick
Founder & Director of TeachThought
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Learning is an experience. Everything else is just information.
Learning is an experience. It’s organic and perishable and turns over on itself constantly like a restless, sleeping animal.
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The Cost Of Insisting What A Student Will Understand
Predicting learning outcomes is big business in education, but what is the cost of insisting what a student will understand and when they will understand it?
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What Is The Purpose Of A Question?
The source, frequency, and quality of questions from students are among the best data points to evaluate thinking in your classrooms.
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21st Century Literacy: A Framework For Merging Classic Literature & Modern Technology
Literacy instruction has done a relatively poor job of keeping up with the urgent pace of change in the ways people read and write.
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Permanently Disrupting Education. With Smartphones.
How To Disrupt Education With Smartphones. by Terry Heick The concept of disruption is an apt one in our fluid, digital, and almost destructively social world. In response to the counterculture movement of the 1960s and 1970s, it’s not surprising to see that trend continue now that technology has caught up with our inherently rebellious…
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Why Virtual Reality Is So Important For Education
Virtual realities can be designed precisely for human interaction for very specific reasons to create experiences not otherwise possible.
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Viewing Comprehension Strategies: Watching Videos Like You Read A Book
Video is a pedagogical goldmine. What ‘viewing comprehension strategies’ can students use during and after watching videos in class?
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42 Fill-in-the-Blank Prompts For Students To Design Their Own Projects
When helping students design projects, I provide these kinds of prompts to help students see how texts, apps, and more can all work together.
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Why Students Should Read
Why should students read? When we read–really, really read–for a while, a normally very loud part of us grows quiet.
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Teaching Digital Students Non-Digital Things
How can you teach digital students non-digital things? 21st century reading & thinking is linked in a web of physical & digital media.
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The Power Of I Don’t Know
The power of “I don’t know” returns the learning to the student and restores the scale of understanding to a universe of knowledge.
