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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.’

How has teaching changed? What is 21st century pedagogy? Key elements include analytics, personalization, place, and perspective.

Education / February 2, 2021 / Terry Heick

All of this money and effort is the kind of energy that keeps education going. But ‘keeping it going’ is also kind of the problem.

As we make learning visible, the process and sequence of learning is illuminated. This helps students see understanding as always evolving.

Give me a curriculum based on people–based on their habits and thinking patterns in their native places and a genuine need to understand.

Video games are increasingly used to confront social and cultural issues that are otherwise problematic to address with a raging troll-fest.

Technology / December 29, 2020 / Apple, Terry Heick

How can the iPad promote a broader set of evidence of understanding? How can it promote the assessment of higher-order thinking skills?

Technology / December 22, 2020 / Terry Heick

Integrating technology into teaching and learning is like adding electricity to architectural design: embedded from the beginning.

Of course, you won’t always be correct but the goal of these kinds of positive assumptions isn’t accuracy, it’s giving children room to grow.

A choice board is a simple personalized learning tool that provides scaffolding, tiering, use of Bloom’s, multiple learning styles, and more.

Want to teach students empathy? Start by helping students themselves not, “How am I unique?” but rather “How are we the same?”

Learning / December 7, 2020 / Terry Heick

In school, learning is externally prompted by a quality judge, rather than curiosity, genius, or intended application in real-world learning.