A Writing Strategy That Works For Every Student, Every Time
TAPE is a writing strategy that acts as a way of clarifying what you’re doing before you do it—or a way to help writers.
Author: Terrell Heick
Founder & Director of TeachThought
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Should Sandbox Learning Be The Future Of Education?
In sandbox learning, learners directly interact with content, & thus gain more willingness to experiment, understand, and follow curiosity.
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Learning Is The Ultimate Disruption
The work of culture is to know itself & hold on to what it deems valuable. Forgetfulness is ignorance. Learning is the ultimate disruption.
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12 Realities That May Break Public Education As We Know It
There are new options for learning and the most innovative don’t have the word ‘school’ in them. As new options emerge, how should education respond?
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Why Teachers Are The Sleeping Giant In The Fight For Net Neutrality
The end of net neutrality would put large internet service companies–and those who influence them–in control of information.
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Technology Is Now As Much A Part Of Learning As Reading & Writing
The technology students use today will be the worst they ever use. That’s a useful starting point for understanding education technology.
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When Students See Themselves As Digital First
Generation ‘Like’: When Students See Themselves As Digital First by Terry Heick Students that have more control than ever over their own identity have, unsurprisingly, lost control of that identity. Coldly, and as a matter of “settings,” they are able to dictate when, how, where, and by whom they are seen. Connectivity has closed the…
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Helping Students Fail: A Framework
Helping students fail is about thinking like a scientist, farmer, designer, or CEO–failing gives the data needed to proceed.
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Stop Defining Learning By The Technology Used To Make It Happen
Stop Defining Learning By The Technology Used To Make It Happen by Terry Heick Come gather ’round people Wherever you roam And admit that the waters Around you have grown And accept it that soon You’ll be drenched to the bone. If your time to you Is worth savin’ Then you better start swimmin’ Or…
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Start Small: A Wendell Berry Commencement Address
“What we need, obviously, is a more intelligent–which is to say, a more accurate–description of the problem.” — Wendell Berry
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What Does Understanding Look Like?
Understanding promotes the spontaneous, personal, and creative application of understanding in dynamic physical and digital environments.
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Teaching Introverts Is Different
Why Teaching Introverts Is Different by Terry Heick As education seeks to improve itself, the focus has been on data, research, and curriculum. The stuff teachers use. There is precious little discussion on the human elements of learning unless you’re discussing isolated movements such as social-emotional learning or whole-child trends. While admirable, these “movements” are…
