The Future Of Learning

10 Reasons Every Teacher Needs A Professional Learning Network by TeachThought Staff What's a professional learning network? According to Marc-André Lalande,  “a Personal Learning Network is a way of describing the group of…

20 Questions To Clarify Your Teaching In 2019 by Terry Heick Who knows where education is going, but it's not impossible to come up with some questions that might guide that evolution. The following, then, are a collection of…

Revisiting 25 Predictions I Made About The Future Of Education by Terry Heick Originally published Dec 22, 2012  Preface: I talk a lot about the future of learning, and sometimes it's fun to go back and look to see how off I…

John Dewey: 'We must prepare our students...for their world.' by Terry Heick "The world is moving at a tremendous rate. No one knows where. We must prepare our children not for the world of the past, not for our world, but for their…

The Learning And Design Principles Of Connected Learning by TeachThought Staff No teacher should be hurting for compelling progressive education content. Sites like edutopia, Langwitches, Cult of Pedagogy, and dozens of others…

As Knowledge Demands Change, Curriculum Must Change, Too by Terry Heick Increasingly, the idea of computer coding is coming up in discussions about the classroom. This usually happens in the context of ‘21st-century learning,’…

10 Ways Teaching Has Changed In The Last 10 Years by Terry Heick Teachers are the arbitrators of knowledge and culture. Knowledge and culture are each dynamic, endlessly crashing and churning. This makes teaching significantly…

How To Create Learning Playlists In A Textbook World by Terry Heick The idea of playlists became popular with the explosion of iTunes and YouTube in the last decade. Before music became digital, it was bound by its physical…

4 Characteristics Of Critical Digital Pedagogy by TeachThought Staff "Pedagogy is not just a delivery device for the digital humanities. It should be at the core of what the digital humanities is as an academic discipline." Jesse Stommel…

A Checklist For 21st Century Teachers by TeachThought Staff What are the kind of things a 21st century teacher needs to know and be able to do? What about 21st century students? What education technology works, and what is a waste…

3 Knowledge Domains For The 21st-Century Student by TeachThought Staff Thinking in the 21st century is just different. That doesn't mean we're all suddenly omnipotent cyborgs, nor does it mean we've all become mindless social media…

Why Learning Innovation Can't Come From Teachers Alone by Terry Heick A few years ago, the late Grant Wiggins, a learning expert who inspired me since my first year in the classroom, wrote about the intersection of academic…

12 Things Schools Could Be Instead Of Schools by Terry Heick What else could schools be? Instead of schools, I mean. Or at least as we think of the word ‘school,’ anyway. The more I think about it, the more this is about…

13 Standards For A Near-Future School by Terry Heick In 2018, an “unconnected classroom”—that is, one without social components, digital media output, authentic and highly visible school-to-school and school-to-community…

The Language Of The Maker Movement: 38 Terms For Teachers As the maker movement in culture moves from MacGyver jokes and what Noah did when Allie left him in The Notebook to something with a bit more academic and cognitive credibility,…

25 Simple Examples Of Mobile Teaching by TeachThought Staff This is part 2 of a 2-part series on Mobile Teaching. Part 1 was Making The Shift To Mobile-First Teaching.  Mobile teaching is about planning and executing learning…

Why Virtual Reality Is So Important For Education by Terry Heick What is virtual reality? You probably have a pretty good sense of what it is even if you've never actually experienced. Virtual = replicated (often digitally);…

How To Design A 21st Century Assessment by Mike Fisher This post has been updated and republished Contemporary curriculum design involves multiple facets: engaging 21st Century skills, using digital tools, collaborating with others…