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By ignoring the phases of inquiry learning, premature Googlers often find the information they want rather than the information they need.

Why All Ed Reform Fails by Terry Heick The complexity, scale, and importance of school reform is mesmerizing. In fact, this scale often ends up obscuring solutions; as a single ...

If there isn’t a convenient explanation at hand, we find one. While we like to think in a linear fashion, this is not actually how we learn.

What Students Will Learn In The Future by Terry Heick This is part 1 of the series “Responsive Teaching For A Changing World,” a 3-part series is sponsored by Adobe Presenter 9. They had ...

Why Some Teachers Are Against Technology In Education by Terry Heick Some educators are upset. Recently I’ve noticed an increasing number of ed folks enthusiastically question education technology—and do so with ...

32 Habits That Make Thinkers by Terry Heick The difference between students and learners is something we've discussed before. On the surface it's a matter of tone and compliance, but ...

If our curriculum is thinking--if our job is to, excuse the convenient phrasing, teach thought--our goals as educators change in important ways.

The Best Teachers Don't Do What They're Told by Terry Heick When I became a teacher, I wanted to be like Robin Williams in Dead Poet Society, bringing students to ...

The Trouble With Measuring Understanding by Terry Heick Assessing understanding might be the most complex thing a teacher ever does. Unfortunately, professional development gives a lower level of attention to ...

7 Pillars Of Digital Leadership In Education by Eric Sheninger, Principal at New Milford High School in New Jersey As schools change leadership must as well. With society becoming more ...

26 Questions Every Student Should Be Able To Answer by Terry Heick These questions are more about the student than you, your classroom, or education. What every student should know ...

Teaching Disruptively by Terry Heick Disruption has been a key theme of the information age. Disruption found legs in the 1990s under the careful study of Harvard professor Clayton Christensen. ...

36 Things Every 21st Century Teacher Should Be Able To Do by Terry Heick What should every teacher in the 21st century know and be able to do? That's an interesting ...

4 Principles Of Digital Literacy by Terry Heick Literacy Literacy is the ability to make sense of something, often generalized as the ability to read and write. In many ways, ...

The Inside-Out School: A 21st Century Learning Model by Terry Heick As a follow-up to our 9 Characteristics of 21st Century Learning we developed in 2009, we have developed an ...

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 ...