EDUCATION

How Gamification Uncovers Nuance In The Learning Process

by Terry Heick This article was originally written in 2011 and most recently updated in 2025 Gamification is simply the…

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How To Be As Interesting As A Video Game

On Student Engagement: How To Be As Interesting As A Video Game Terry Heick Agreeing on how to best establish…

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126 Digital Learning Verbs Based on Bloom’s Taxonomy – TeachThought

by TeachThought Staff At TeachThought, we’re interested supporters of any learning taxonomy. (We even created our own, the TeachThought Learning Taxonomy.)…

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A Bloom’s Digital Taxonomy For Evaluating Digital Tasks

by TeachThought Staff At TeachThought, we’ve described Bloom’s Taxonomy as “a hierarchical ordering of cognitive skills that can, among countless…

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12 General Critical Thinking Questions About Voting And Government – TeachThought

by Terry Heick Note: This has been updates from a 2018 version Just a quick post that’s self-explanatory enough: It’s…

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A Conversion Chart For Reading Level Measurement Tools

A Conversion Chart For Reading Level Measurement Tools by TeachThought Staff If you’ve used AR (Accelerated Reader) as a reading…

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Brain Dash 60 is a Popular Quiz Game from We Are Teachers

We have a new game to share with you at We Are Teachers. It’s called Brain Dash 60, and it’s…

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Help! What Should I Have on My Summer Bucket List?

Dear We Are Teachers, I just finished my first year of teaching and am so ready for summer. At least…

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100+ Bloom’s Taxonomy Verbs For Critical Thinking

by TeachThought Staff Bloom’s Taxonomy’s verbs–also known as power verbs or thinking verbs–are extraordinarily powerful instructional planning tools. In fact,…

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The Definition Of A Socratic Seminar – TeachThought

If correctly prepared for, a Socratic seminar can be a powerful catalyst for social learning. Many teachers we know have…

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