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What Happened & What’s Next
Hack Education, as perhaps you’ve noticed, has been on hiatus for a while. What with the pandemic, the death of my son, and the publication of Teaching Machines, I really couldn’t continue to pay attention to the day-to-day nonsense of ed...[Read More]
Book Birthday!
It’s here!
Pre-Order Teaching Machines
Teaching Machines is available for pre-order via the MIT Press website (and anywhere books are sold — consider supporting your local bookseller). I spent a few days trying to revamp the Teaching Machines website — before deciding that the template I ...[Read More]
How To Teach Artificial Intelligence In The Classroom Without Technology
Strategies for Teaching AI Concepts Without Technology by TeachThought Staff Preface: This post is primarily for general content-area K-12 teachers (likely 6-12). Teaching AI theory, for example, is well beyond these ideas. You don’t need a wind tunn...[Read More]
6 (Far, Far) Technologies That Will Define The Classroom Of The Future
by TeachThought Staff In ‘Shifts For The Classroom of the Future,’ Terrell Heick said, “It’s challenging enough to manage a traditional learning environment where the curriculum is handed to you, and meetings are set, and you’re simply there to manag...[Read More]
Creating A New Digital Architecture Of Participation
Creating A New Digital Architecture Of Participation by Terrell Heick It isn’t clear what the original goal of social media was. No single person, organization, or platform could have possibly decided this. Once the framework of publishing content–in...[Read More]
12 Ideas For Easing Students Back to School
by TeachThought Staff Welcome to a new school year! While most teachers and students have much to look forward to as the new school year begins, the end of summer can sometimes be seen as a tragic end to freedom and fun. Like Mondays, the beginning o...[Read More]
10 Team-Building Games For The First Day Of School
10 Team-Building Games For The First Day Of School by TeachThought Staff Team-building activities are great–especially for the first day of school or early in the school year, Not only can they help establish routines, tone, and expectations, they’re...[Read More]
Improving The Relationship Between Schools And Communities
Improving The Relationship Between Schools And Communities by Terry Heick Education is a series of learning experiences informed by policy, and actuated by teachers. Policy, by its very nature, is sweeping and ambitious. It is designed to work on var...[Read More]
10 Calendar Apps For Improved Scheduling
by TeachThought Staff Life can be crushingly busy–especially if you’re an educator or any other profession where deadlines are constant and the pressure is, unfortunately, unrelenting. With that in mind, keeping your schedule organized and managing y...[Read More]
Getting Started With Word Walls
contributed by Samantha Saumell, I Have, Not I Am All teachers want to help students become successful readers and writers. Whether students like reading or writing, they are readers and writers, whether they know it or not. Students sometimes think ...[Read More]
8 Of The Most Important Critical Thinking Skills
Critical thinking is the ongoing application of unbiased analysis in pursuit of objective truth. Although its name implies criticism, critical thinking is actually closer to ‘truth judgment‘ based on withholding judgments while evaluating existing an...[Read More]