10 Ways Teacher Planning Should Adjust To The Google Generation
For the Google Generation, information isn’t scarce, and knowing has the illusion of only being a search away.
Author: Terry Heick
Founder & Director of TeachThought
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The Trouble With Measuring Understanding
Measuring understanding might be the most complex thing teachers do. Unfortunately, PD gives little attention to making quality assessments.
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The Necessity Of Something Other Than Apple In Education
The Necessity Of Something Other Than Apple In Education by Terry Heick This isn’t an anti-Apple piece; it’s about symmetry. The discussion about learning with tablets is a difficult one to push critically. Conversations here gradually trend toward apps, cost, equity, or even the consumption versus production argument. Rarely, however, do they extend fully to the…
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The Best Platform For Student Blogging
The Best Platform For Student Blogging by TeachThought Staff Okay, this is subjective, but here’s my thought: When taking a macro view view of how and why students share thinking and information–and considering modern digital media trends, in 2014 the best way for students to blog in and out of the classroom has to be tumblr….
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Is The Future Of Reading Not Reading At All?
Is The Future Of Reading Not Reading At All? The Impact Of Visual & Social Literacy by Terry Heick Slate recently stumbled upon an infographic that mapped the civil war. And it’s 100 years old. (See below.) You can find a proper zoomable version for careful study at the Library of Congress. In short, it’s a wonderfully…
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Analyzing An Author’s Position With Digital Media
Analyze the game developer’s position on religious tolerance in modern society, then compare or contrast it to another author’s position.
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Teach Like Minecraft: 5 Strategies To Craft Creative Students
Teach Like Minecraft: 5 Strategies To Craft Creative Students by Terry Heick At this point, some of you are probably sick of hearing about Minecraft. It has gone from game to phenomenon, selling bajillions of copies and crowding the mindscape of 6th graders everywhere for what seems like centuries. But before you go, there may…
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A Self-Directed Learning Model For 21st Century Learners
This model is built around the concept of self-knowledge–better understanding one’s self and that to inform one’s interactions with the world.
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Establishing A Growth Mindset As A Teacher: 9 Statements Of Affirmation
9 Statements Of Affirmation To Help Establish A Growth Mindset by Terry Heick The ability to change is among the least-appreciated professional characteristics of a teacher. This is especially true as education systems react to both external pressure, and internal instinct to change into something closer to truly progressive learning environments. As I was reading…
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Finding Your Purpose As A Teacher
What exactly do your students want or need? How will you need to “package” and deliver this gift you feel supremely qualified to teach?
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Technology In Education Can Only Do One Thing
Technology has has made access to information, people, and networks recreational. It is useful only insofar as it extends our own humanity.
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The Problematic Connotation Of Video Games
Video games’ time in the public spotlight is usually brief, and tangled with discussions on children, violence, and Constitutional rights.
