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The Time I Went To Israel In Search Of Innovation

Education / December 22, 2015 / Terry Heick

In the middle of the desert in southern Israel, it’s not the sand or sun but the cold that you first notice.

Education 3.0 has many facets from technology tools to shifting roles for teachers. But more than anything else, it’s is about students.

After a decade of endless and painful reconciliation between belief and behavior, meeting Wendell Berry was a new sort of marker.

You realize that your PBL unit lacked enough student agency and that your challenge-based learning unit could have data privacy issues.

A defining characteristic of 21st century teaching is that it doesn’t require you to be anything other than acutely attentive to possibility.

As education seeks to change in the 21st century, there are a few ideas that continue to challenge its progress.

The process of adopting new learning domains and materials has exposed the need for new critical digital literacy skills.

The days of ‘going to school to get a job’ could be slowly replaced by ‘critically learning so that we come to understand what must be done.’

Teaching / October 10, 2015 / Terry Heick

The difference between pedagogy, andragogy, and heutagogy has to do with purposes and roles–being taught or teaching yourself.

Preparing students for the modern economy isn’t about streamlining job-training, especially for jobs that change often & disappear quickly.

I. Education is both industrial and fundamental; it is the mutual product of both engineering and affection. II. This makes

Having a solid base in theory makes sense but the questions he was getting–“Why did you become a teacher?”–seemed only vaguely useful.