What are the most popular trends in education?
What about the most popular trends in education heading into 2020 specifically? Well, that’s a tricky question.
Deciding what’s ‘trending’ is an important part of digital publishing and social media interaction. Facebook articles, Google News, Apple News, trending hashtags on twitter, and even our own TeachThought website all depend heavily on statistics.
It’s easy to have a problem with this concept philosophically–namely that the most popular isn’t always the most effective or the ‘best.’ So this post isn’t about the most innovative trends, most exciting trends, or most effective trends, but rather the most popular trends in innovative education insofar as we can see from our necessarily-limited data and individual perspective.
The requirements?
1. It must be ‘popular.’
2. And, because this is TeachThought, it must involve some kind of ‘innovation’ or growth in education.
How We Measured
So how did we measure the ‘most popular trends’ in education?
We basically took four quantifiable data points and combined them with fallible but hopefully useful good old-fashioned human awareness and recognition. The result is four objective measures and on subjective ‘sense of things.’ We then combined them to create a ‘score,’ quantified on a scale of 1 through 10 where 10 is the highest.
5 Data Points To Identify The Most Popular Trends In Education
1. Popular search engine data (e.g., Google, Bing, etc.) [objective]
2. TeachThought search data [objective]
3. Traffic and search trends within and across popular education websites [objective]
4. Social media metrics [objective]
5. TeachThought editorial impression [subjective]
Based on our search database trends, analytics data on content, and a decidedly unscientific but daily skimming of industry chatter, press releases, peer content, internal dialogue, and social media usage, here are–in light of the above–most popular 12 trends in innovative education for 2020.
For each, we’ve also shared one of our top bits of content to get you started reading. Also feel free to use search to find and share additional resources as well.
Note, clearly this has plenty of inherent bias built-in, is decidedly non-scientific, and is nowhere close to exhaustive. Take it with a grain of salt as one sampling of modern trends in ‘western’ K-12 public education.
8 Of The Most Popular Trends In Education For 2020
1. Growth Mindset
Score: 10
Trending: Up
Top Resources
Related Topics: Maker Education, Student-Centered Learning, Habits of Mind, Emotion in Learning, Empathy
2. Maker Learning (tie)
Top Resources
Related Topics: Failing Forward, Robotics in the classroom, Coding, Self-Directed Learning
2. Bloom’s Taxonomy (tie)
Top Resources
Related Topics: Critical Thinking, Curriculum Mapping, Self-Directed Learning, Inquiry-Based Learning
4. Digital Citizenship/Literacy
Top Resources
Related Topics: Big data, Data Privacy, Digital Footprint, Mobile Learning
5. Personalized Learning
Top Resources
Related Topics: Student-Centered Learning, Adaptive Learning Algorithms, Gamification, Mobile Learning, BYOD, Blended Learning
6. Project-Based Learning
Top Resources
Related Topics: Inquiry in the classroom, Scenario-Based Learning, Place-Based Education
7. Team-Building For Learning
Top Resources
8. Blended Learning
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