Continuous Learning In The 21st Century Classroom
As teachers, we are models for these behaviors. A blended, digitally enhanced classroom is a platform on which we can promote our objectives.
12 Realities That May Break Public Education As We Know It
There are new options for learning and the most innovative don’t have the word ‘school’ in them. As new options emerge, how should education respond?
Stop Defining Learning By The Technology Used To Make It Happen
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 your time to you Is worth savin’ Then you better start swimmin’ Or…
5 Characteristics Of Global Learning
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. This quick post is more about the characteristics of that kind of approach to learning. As globalization becomes more and more inevitable, understanding where we’re drifting…
Twitter Is Shallow And Social Media Is Superficial. Right?
“Twitter…tends toward superficiality and draws people away from serious communication…(and) is not a medium of a serious interchange.”
Want To Change Education? You’d Better Have These 6 Things
You Need These 6 Things To Change Education 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 I used to work with walked by, and we caught up for a…
The Definition Of Mobile Learning
While often characterized by technology, mobile learning is learning characterized by the need and ability of the learner to be mobile.
What Is The Future Of Data In Education?
What is the future of data in education? Improved visualization and smarter algorithms to personalize learning for students.
How The World Is Changing & How Education Can Respond
The world is changing, but that’s always been true since the world began. What is worth examining is the pace and scale and effects of those changes.
When They Don’t Want Privacy: Why Students Should Study Social Media
Understanding social media is more than using it in the same way that understanding physics is more than simply being affected by gravity.
5 Ways Any School Can Be A 21st Century School
The possibility of 21st century schools & a unique academic “identity” emerging across the US have been reduced in pursuit of uniformity.
Critical Knowledge: 4 Domains More Important Than Academics
The idea here is to clarify the kinds of critical knowledge that create actual change in the lives of students and communities.
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