The Future Of Learning

 Where's The Innovation In Education Coming From? by Terry Heick Innovation matters because it reflects and causes adaptations to a changing world. But while we stomp our feet for innovation in education and innovative teaching and…

Teaching Digital Students Non-Digital Things by Terry Heick Like thinking, reading in the 21st century is different than in centuries past, endlessly linked in an increasingly visible web of physical and digital media forms. As…

As Facebook Seeks To Supersede The Internet Itself, What Are The Lessons? by TeachThought Staff Social media has done a lot of things, from connecting long lost friends (whether or not they wanted to be connected), to somehow…

Should Sandbox Learning Be The Future Of Education? by Terry Heick Two decades into the 21st century, highly-structured, formal learning environments may have run their course. If nothing else, they have a pronounced limp and awkward…

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.…

Continuous Learning In The 21st Century Classroom contributed by Felicia Zorn Students who are nurtured in a blended learning environment develop the skills and necessities to experience college and career success. When exposed…

12 Ideas That Will Probably Break Education by Terry Heick As the education changes, it depends primarily on internal catalysts for that change. That is, the ‘things’ that change it are on the ‘inside’ of that system itself, most…

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…

The World Is Changing; Let Schools Change, Too by Terry Heick Schools, as we know them, are dying. Shopping, as we know it, is dying. While both are obvious, one loss seems to breed opportunity while the other makes us hold on for…

Why Every Classroom Should Teach Digital Citizenship by Paul Barnwell, Teacher of English & Digital Media Students buzzed about the latest uproar on Instagram. Anonymous sources had posted a ‘questionable’--and NSFW--list for…

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.…

Twitter Is Shallow And Social Media Is Superficial. Right? contributed by Nathan Jurgenson Noam Chomsky has been one of the most important critics of the way big media crowd out everyday voices in order to control knowledge and…

Want To Change Education? You'd better Have These 6 Things 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…

50 Crazy Ideas To Change Education  by Terry Heick This post has been updated from previous publishing. Below are 50 ideas for a new education. Note, most of these are about education as a system rather than learning itself, but…

by Terry Heick What is the definition of mobile learning? For starters, let's agree that mobile learning is learning based on mobility often through mobile devices like smartphones, iPads, other tablets, and wearable…

What Is The Future Of Data In Education? by Terry Heick Data is both a catalyst and a burden for most educators. Data-driven instruction is an older idea that finally soaked into general K-12 education reform in the United…

How The World Is Changing & How Education Can Respond by Terry Heick How is the world changing? Most broadly, technology is defining new terms for 'human' connections--and consequently altering how we define our 'selves.'…

When They Don't Want Privacy: Why Students Should Study Social Media by Terry Heick No matter what you personally believe about its value, technology has entered society like a massive electrical storm, leaving few things…