What Are You Going To Do To Inspire Students?
Resistance to ‘school work’ isn’t new, but if students literally—en masse—aren’t inspired to learn, why aren’t we more concerned?
Author: Terry Heick
Founder & Director of TeachThought
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Bullet Proof Blankets For School Shootings Are A Thing
Bullet Proof Blankets For School Shootings Are A Thing by Terry Heick There is a market for bullet proof–or rather, bullet resistant–blankets to cover children with. I’m incapable of contextualizing this, so I’m just going to share some information and links for further reading, then move on before I take off running and never stop,…
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Why It Can Seem That Parents Don’t Care
As long as communities have no voice in, or capacity to understand, curriculum, their interaction with schools will always be broken.
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Why Some Teachers Are Against Technology In Education
he way forward, then, might just be a more nuanced discussion about how people learn, and what role technology can play in that process.
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The New Commercial Education
For a quick read and a little humor, here is some bullet-point sarcasm about the “new commercial education” from Wendell Berry (via The Joy Of Sales Resistance, from his short collections of essays Sex, Economy, Freedom, And Community.) He’s talking more about universities than K-12, but, well, it’s all the same isn’t it? “Actually, as we know, the new…
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The Difference Between Updating And Rebooting Your Classroom
The Difference Between Updating & Rebooting Your Classroom by Terry Heick As they do in other fields full of human beings, money, and systems, discussions about teaching and learning usually tend towards two extremes. Either there sky is falling panic, or the more things change the more they stay the same indifference. There really isn’t any…
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13 Very Different Tools To Help Students Find Their Voice
Here are 6 different possibilities to help students find their voices, rom those text-based to artistic, dramatic to digital.
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22 Things We Do As Educators That Will Embarrass Us In 25 Years
What do we, as educators, do now that in 25 years we’ll look back on and shake our heads in embarrassment?
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Creating A Culture Of Learning Using The Gradual Release Of Responsibility Model
You can’t strictly cause curiosity, enthusiasm, or affection but you can play a critical role and helping them grow.
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How Do iPads Function In A Traditional Classroom?
Drawing On A Napkin: Is This How iPads Function In A Traditional Classroom? by Terry Heick Sketched this out last week–not quite a napkin this time, but the back of a sheet of paper at a coffee shop–when thinking about how I most often see iPads used in the classroom. Thought I’d share it in…
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4 Stages And 4 Effects Of Learning Technology
This presentation from Steven Wheeler explores changes in technology and education, including gamification, AR, and mobile learning.
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The Best Teachers Don’t Do What They’re Told
For starters, less is more. As you design curriculum and instruction, give students just enough to get them going, then get out of their way.
