The Points Don't Matter

This Innovative Pedagogies series is based on the article Innovative Pedagogies of the Future: An Evidence-based Selection that offers “a set of innovative, evidence-based pedagogical approaches that have the potential to guide teaching practitioners and transform learning processes and outcomes.” The past few years have seen rapid adoption in educational technology, and this series offers ideas for changes in the practice of teaching and learning to accompany those technology advancements. Since you’re a teacher, you already know that teaching is one of the most powerful ways to learn. Remember being in college yourself and studying with others? We taught each other things–and those were the things we learned the best. That is the essence of teachback . Learning by teaching can help improve student comprehension, confidence, communication, and essential social-emotional learning skills. Teachback is just what you might imagine. Educational technologist, Gordon Pask, coined the name