Terrell Heick, Author at TeachThought

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.

Understanding social media is more than using it in the same way that understanding physics is more than simply being affected by gravity.

The possibility of 21st century schools & a unique academic “identity” emerging across the US have been reduced in pursuit of uniformity.

Making the shift in your mind — from learning content to learning how to learn — is important for these dimensions to be relevant.

The idea here is to clarify the kinds of critical knowledge that create actual change in the lives of students and communities.

If you can show all assessment results, learners may realize that understanding is evasive, evolving, and as dynamic as their imaginations.

How do you use the Habits of Mind in the classroom? Start with modeling, RAFT assignments, and metacognition.

Growing as a teacher requires knowing what you know and what you don’t know, and neither are as simple as they seem.

How can we improve education? Our current system is designed to publish common goals that drive our common actions and performance.

It would make sense that as tech becomes more integrated, accessible, and smarter, those connections will deepen as our priorities change.

A modern teacher has to demonstrate for students not how to solve problems, but why those problems should be solved.

Teaching / July 20, 2017 / Hip-hop

It could be that the best way this history of hip-hop video can help you is for your own personal use, rather than for student entertainment.