Why Some Teachers Are Against Technology In Education
he way forward, then, might just be a more nuanced discussion about how people learn, and what role technology can play in that process.
The Difference Between Updating And Rebooting Your Classroom
The Difference Between Updating & Rebooting Your Classroom by Terry Heick As they do in other fields full of human beings, money, and systems, discussions about teaching and learning usually tend towards two extremes. Either there sky is falling panic, or the more things change the more they stay the same indifference. There really isn’t any…
22 Things We Do As Educators That Will Embarrass Us In 25 Years
What do we, as educators, do now that in 25 years we’ll look back on and shake our heads in embarrassment?
Creating A Culture Of Learning Using The Gradual Release Of Responsibility Model
You can’t strictly cause curiosity, enthusiasm, or affection but you can play a critical role and helping them grow.
Are You Teaching Content Or Teaching Thought?
If our curriculum is thinking, if our job is (excuse the convenient phrasing) teaching thought, our goals as educators change.
The Best Teachers Don’t Do What They’re Told
For starters, less is more. As you design curriculum and instruction, give students just enough to get them going, then get out of their way.
10 Ways Teacher Planning Should Adjust To The Google Generation
For the Google Generation, information isn’t scarce, and knowing has the illusion of only being a search away.
The Trouble With Measuring Understanding
Measuring understanding might be the most complex thing teachers do. Unfortunately, PD gives little attention to making quality assessments.
The Necessity Of Something Other Than Apple In Education
The Necessity Of Something Other Than Apple In Education by Terry Heick This isn’t an anti-Apple piece; it’s about symmetry. The discussion about learning with tablets is a difficult one to push critically. Conversations here gradually trend toward apps, cost, equity, or even the consumption versus production argument. Rarely, however, do they extend fully to the…
A Self-Directed Learning Model For 21st Century Learners
This model is built around the concept of self-knowledge–better understanding one’s self and that to inform one’s interactions with the world.
So? So What? What Now? How To Keep The Learning Going
How To Keep The Learning Going by Terry Heick In 2014, sandbox video games have changed gaming more than a little. Players can now define their own terms for success, and the evolution of certain gamification elements makes this more than a fantasy in the minds of the players. There really are multiple measures of…
Technology In Education Can Only Do One Thing
Technology has has made access to information, people, and networks recreational. It is useful only insofar as it extends our own humanity.
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