60 Ways To Help Students Think For Themselves
There are many ways to help students think for themselves. Guide them to dynamic spaces characterized by people, thought, and creativity.
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The Big Picture: 8 Ways To Future-Proof Your Teaching
Education is both tired of change, and evaporating without it. Here are ways to future-proof your teaching to ‘evolve smarter,’ not ‘harder.’
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8 Learning Domains Of Modern Critical Pedagogy
How has teaching changed? What is 21st century pedagogy? Key elements include analytics, personalization, place, and perspective.
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How To Make Learning Visible: A Spectrum
As we make learning visible, the process and sequence of learning is illuminated. This helps students see understanding as always evolving.
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Knowledge Demands Change Faster Than Every Other Part Of Education
Give me a curriculum based on people–based on their habits and thinking patterns in their native places and a genuine need to understand.
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Exactly How To Teach With Video Games In The Classroom
Video games are increasingly used to confront social and cultural issues that are otherwise problematic to address with a raging troll-fest.
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A Model For Teaching And Learning With iPads
How can the iPad promote a broader set of evidence of understanding? How can it promote the assessment of higher-order thinking skills?
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11 Personalized Learning Strategies That Work
A choice board is a simple personalized learning tool that provides scaffolding, tiering, use of Bloom’s, multiple learning styles, and more.
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How To Teach Empathy In The Classroom
Want to teach students empathy? Start by helping students themselves not, “How am I unique?” but rather “How are we the same?”
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How Class Learning Is Different Than Real-World Learning
In school, learning is externally prompted by a quality judge, rather than curiosity, genius, or intended application in real-world learning.
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8 Strategies To Help Students Ask Great Questions
A good question can open minds, shift paradigms, and force the uncomfortable but transformational cognitive dissonance that can help create thinkers.
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How 21st Century Thinking Is Just Different
The shift toward a fluid, formless, socialized nature of information, thought, and belief is a not a small one.
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What Should Every Student Know In A Digital World?
In an increasingly digital world, the things a student needs to know are indeed changing–sometimes drastically.
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The Relationship Between Quality And Effect
What is the relationship between quality and effect? It’s partly causal but that’s not exactly it. But there is clearly interdependence.
