OPINION: The Illusion Of The Widget
We should be cautious not to view learners as little widgets in an education machine that wheezes and chuffs and spits out educated learners.
Author: Terry Heick
Founder & Director of TeachThought
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100 Questions That Help Students Think About Thinking
What was your mindset going in to the activity? What do you discover about yourself during the learning process?
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Don’t Be A Teacher Bully
Okay, 100 words on the idea of a “teacher bully”….It’s easier to become one than you’d think. Teaching isn’t easy–stresses your time, patience, and emotional reserves. Some days, it seems certain students want to watch the world burn.But no matter how well-designed learning experiences are, the tone of your interactions with students can deflate a classroom…
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5 Ways To Help Students Ask Better Questions
How To Help Students Ask Better Questions There’s nothing I care more about than students, and there are few things I think can serve a student better than being able to ask the right question at the right time. In “Why Questions Are More Important Than Answers,” I said that “Questioning is the art of…
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On Pushback From ‘Pinterest Criticism’
Pinterest is an easy way to get through the day and supplement pedagogy, but it’s not the final answer to this question of building brains.
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What Happens When Students Use Technology Better Than Teachers?
Truth be told, students are geniuses with technology. Born hackers. And of course they are better than teachers. They’re digital natives.
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What Teachers That Use Technology Believe
Teachers who use technology in their classroom believe that learning through technology may be more natural for students than teachers.
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Why Teacher Staff Meetings Suck–And How To Make Them Better
Time for a staff meeting? Need an idea? Something that engages teachers? Shake things up a bit? Start the year off right?
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The Time I Went To Israel In Search Of Innovation
In the middle of the desert in southern Israel, it’s not the sand or sun but the cold that you first notice.
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Education 3.0–Where Students Create Their Own Learning Experiences
Education 3.0 has many facets from technology tools to shifting roles for teachers. But more than anything else, it’s is about students.
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Meeting Wendell Berry
After a decade of endless and painful reconciliation between belief and behavior, meeting Wendell Berry was a new sort of marker.
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21st Century Teaching: A Defining Characteristic
A defining characteristic of 21st century teaching is that it doesn’t require you to be anything other than acutely attentive to possibility.
