The Art & Science Of Reading In The 21st Century
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. So in this context of ...
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Everything You Know About Curriculum May Be Wrong. Really.
Everything You Know About Curriculum May Be Wrong. Really. by Grant Wiggins What if the earth moves and the sun is at rest? What if gravity is just a special case ...
40 Simple Ways To Use A Smartphone In The Classroom
So many ruminations on what smartphone technologies offer the wired classroom begin with some permutation of how, at first, smartphones are often the bane of teachers’ existence because they cause disruptions. ...
20 Things Educators Need To Know About Learning Spaces
20 Things Educators Need To Know About Learning Spaces by TeachThought Staff The 21st century is challenging old notions of learning spaces. The idea that students must be seated at desks ...
50 Google+ Circles for Cutting-Edge Educators
Google+ may still be finding its own footing among the Twitters and Facebooks of cyberspace, but nevertheless hosts a cornucopia of networking opportunities spanning numerous subjects. Education subject matter in particular seems ...
The Flipped Classroom Turns Around An At-Risk, Failing School
“The Flipped Classroom Turns Around an At-Risk, Failing School” by Greg Green, Principal at Clintondale High School, was originally published on Getting Smart. As a principal of Clintondale High School, I’ve witnessed firsthand ...
Clarifying Transfer & How It Impacts What We Think Students Understand
Preface: In collaboration with Grant Wiggins of Understanding by Design and Authentic Education, TeachThought will be bringing you Grant's industry-leading expertise on understanding, learning frameworks, and curriculum planning. This article originally ...
Rethinking Grading In A 21st Century Project-Based Learning Environment
Rethinking Grading In A 21st Century Project-Based Learning Environment by Terry Heick Summary: In Project-Based Learning, achievements can encourage students by clarifying complexity and rewarding nuance in performance Whether a ...
What The iPad’s Popularity Says About Education
What The iPad's Popularity Says About Education by Terry Heick Whether you find the iPad’s success energizing, interesting, or repulsive (we’ve seen all three reactions recently across our social media ...
50 Top Sources Of Free eLearning Courses
Whether you are looking for a master’s degree program, computer science classes, a K-12 curriculum, or GED study program, this list gives you a look at 50 websites that promise ...
The Past, Present, And Future Of The iPad In Learning
The Past, Present, And Future Of The iPad In Learning by Terry Heick The Idea When Apple started dropping hints about a coming “tablet PC” in 2009, it would have ...
9 Characteristics Of 21st Century Learning
The label of "21st Century learning" is vague, and is an idea that we here at TeachThought like to take a swing at as often as possible, including: --weighing the ...
10 Important Questions To Ask Yourself Before Deploying iPads
10 Important Questions To Ask Yourself Before Deploying iPads by Terry Heick Usually, iPad deployment will focus more on budget issues, apps, networking logistics, check-in and check-out procedures, school and ...
50 Ideas For Using Skype In Your Classroom
Skype, the free, ubiquitous VOIP downloadable, offers some unique opportunities for tech-savvy teachers to get their students learning in exciting new ways. It might prove a buggy affair depending on ...
How To Capture Ideas Visually With The iPad
By its very design, the iPad promotes consumption. Essentially an interactive mobile screen, the combination of physical form and supporting software-based user interface on Apple's wunder-tablet suggests watching and listening, ...
25 Ways To Use The iPad In The Classroom By Complexity
25 Ways To Use The iPad In The Classroom By Complexity by TeachThought Staff iPad use in formal learning environments, by all accounts, is soaring. Due to the almost magical ways ...
10 Schools That Have Implemented BYOD Successfully
With budgets tight, many schools are hoping to bring technology into the classroom without having to shell out for a device for each student. A solution for many has been ...
