Valve Pipeline Seeks Curious/Self-Directed Over Compliant/”Educated”
The Valve Pipeline Seeks The Curious and Self-Directed Over The Compliant and “Educated”.
Author: Terrell Heick
Founder & Director of TeachThought
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You Don’t Have To Burn Books To Destroy A Culture
Ray Bradbury redirects the attention given to the banning (and burning) of books, and turns it back on culture itself.
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Digital Media Can Change The Tone Of Learning
Digital Media Can Change Learning by TeachThought Staff Digital media is really more powerful than we’re giving it credit for. And it already gets a lot of credit. While “social” media gets all the praise, social media is itself digital, with the digital versions of films, music, magazines, images, and other stuff holding inherent characteristics that…
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Everything I (Thought I) Knew My Second Year Of Teaching
Everything I Knew My Second Year Of Teaching My 2nd year of teaching, my head was swimming. I had just gotten back from an ASCD conference–with a Marzano pre-conference and a heavy dose of Understanding by Design, Tomlinson’s ideas on differentiation, and some sessions on literacy. In spite of all of the great information I…
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9 Oxymorons In 21st Century Learning
9 Oxymorons In 21st Century Learning Vernacular As 21st century teachers, we have to put up with a lot. Constantly changing expectations. Move academic targets. Constant waves of new technology. Changing sources of professional development. It certainly keeps one day from being the same as the next, but it also creates the opportunity for us to contradict ourselves….
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A Simple Way To Clarify Personalized Learning
This post seeks to clarify personalized learning, a term that’s becoming more common as education becomes more ambitious and self-aware.
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The Evolution Of Global Learning & Collaboration
The Evolution Of Global Learning & Collaboration The Flat Classroom Project is an interesting effort that’s working on something pretty cool–and impressively ambitious: global learning. Their website explains that the “Flat Classroom® Project is a global collaborative project that joins together middle and senior high school students. This project is part of the emerging tend in…
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5 Levels Of Technology Integration In Curriculum
Incorporating levels of technology integration in learning isn’t new. In the ’80s, many schools had calculators & computers & taught coding.
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Merging Basic Lesson Design With Technological Pedagogical Knowledge
This basic lesson design closely follows the gradual release of responsibility model and has been used as a template for decades in schools.
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Seeking Wisdom: 7 Dangers Of Human Virtue
The dangers of human virtue include politics without principles, worship without sacrifice, science without humanity, & wealth without work.
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15 Education Phrases We Need To Stop Using
Education Phrases & Language That Need To Die by Terry Heick Being in education long enough, you’ll begin to hear certain words and phrases that bother you on some level. Some are obvious—“smart” bothers a lot of educators, and for good reason. Others you’re not sure why they grind your gears, but they do. (I know,…
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What To Tell The Graduating Class Of 2013
A Message To The Graduating Class Of 2013 You’re graduating, which means school—the formal and academic portion of your learning experience–is over. You’re going to be hit with a lot of questions, either about college or a “job,” mostly from well-intentioned adults trying to make conversation or throw in their two cents. So here’s my…
