Why Virtual Reality Is So Important For Education
Virtual realities can be designed precisely for human interaction for very specific reasons to create experiences not otherwise possible.
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How To Design A 21st Century Assessment
21st century assessment design involves using digital tools, collaborating with others, performance tasks, and more.
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Infographic: Which Content Areas Are Most Valuable In Real Life?
Infographic: Which Content Areas Are Most Valuable In Real Life? by TeachThought Staff Which content areas are most valuable in real life? What do students think of your class? Not you or how you teach it, but the content area itself? The utility of various content areas is an understudied idea. We constantly think of…
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Teaching Digital Students Non-Digital Things
How can you teach digital students non-digital things? 21st century reading & thinking is linked in a web of physical & digital media.
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As Facebook Seeks To Supersede The Internet Itself, What Are The Lessons?
Through connecting content, transparency, and broad appeal, the internet has been forever altered by the addition of Facebook.
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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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Why Are Schools So Bad At Preparing Students For Modern Jobs?
Why Are Schools So Bad At Preparing Students For Modern Jobs? by TeachThought Staff If schools are supposed to be training the workers of the future, the growing consensus is that most of them are not doing a very good job of it. In a trend that seems long overdue, technology-based companies are increasingly turning…
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Continuous Learning In The 21st Century Classroom
As teachers, we are models for these behaviors. A blended, digitally enhanced classroom is a platform on which we can promote our objectives.
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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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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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5 Characteristics Of Global Learning
5 Characteristics Of Global Learning by Terry Heick Characteristics Of Global Learning: An increasingly globalized society is putting pressure on education to “globalize.” We’ve talked about the definition of global learning before. This quick post is more about the characteristics of that kind of approach to learning. As globalization becomes more and more inevitable, understanding where we’re drifting…
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Want To Change Education? You’d Better Have These 6 Things
You Need These 6 Things To Change Education by Terry Heick Every afternoon, after failing to take a nap because I make everything harder than it has to be, I pout down to Starbucks for coffee and a book. Today a teacher I used to work with walked by, and we caught up for a…
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The Definition Of Mobile Learning
While often characterized by technology, mobile learning is learning characterized by the need and ability of the learner to be mobile.
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What Is The Future Of Data In Education?
What is the future of data in education? Improved visualization and smarter algorithms to personalize learning for students.
