by Terry Heick
As a follow-up to our 9 Traits of twenty first Century Studying we developed in 2009, we have now developed an up to date framework, The Inside-Out Studying Mannequin.
The objective of the mannequin is easy sufficient–not pure educational proficiency, however as a substitute genuine self-knowledge, numerous native and world interdependence, adaptive important considering, and adaptive media literacy.
By design this mannequin emphasizes the position of play, numerous digital and bodily media, and a designed interdependence between communities and colleges.
The tried personalization of studying happens by new actuators and new notions of native and world citizenship. An Inside-Out College returns the learners, studying, and ‘accountability’ away from academia and again to communities. Not do colleges train. Relatively, they act as curators of assets and studying instruments and promote the shift of the ‘burden’ of studying again to a extra balanced perspective of stakeholders and contributors.
Right here, households, enterprise leaders, humanities-based organizations, neighbors, mentors, and higher-education establishments all converging to witness, revere, reply to and help the educational of its personal group members.
The micro-effect right here is elevated mental intimacy, whereas the macro-effect is more healthy communities and citizenship that extends past mere participation, to concepts of considering, scale, legacy, and progress.

The 9 Domains Of the Inside-Out Studying Mannequin
1. 5 Studying Actuators
- Mission-Based mostly Studying
- Directed and Non-Directed Play
- Video Video games and Studying Simulations
- Linked Mentoring
- Educational Follow
2. Altering Habits
- Properly-being (for academics and college students) as a matter deserving of innovation & design
- Acknowledge limits and scale
- Replicate on interdependence
- Honor uncertainty
- Curate legacy
- Help systems-level and divergent considering
- Reward increment
- Require versatility within the face of change
3. Transparency
- Between communities, learners, and colleges
- Studying requirements, outcomes, mission rubrics, efficiency critera persistently seen, accessible, and communally constructed
- Gamification and publishing change ‘grades’
4. Self-Initiated Switch
- Making use of outdated considering in always altering and unfamiliar circumstances as a continuing matter of apply
- Fixed apply of prioritized large concepts in rising complexity inside learner’s Zone of Proximal Improvement
- Mission-based studying, blended studying, and Place-Based mostly Training out there to facilitate extremely constructivist strategy
5. Mentoring & Group
- ‘Accountability’ by way of the efficiency of project-based concepts in genuine native and world environments
- Native motion –> world citizenship
- Lively mentoring by way of bodily and digital networking, apprenticeships, job shadows and research excursions
- Communal Constructivism, meta-cognition, Cognitive Teaching, and Cognitive Apprenticeship amongst out there instruments
6. Altering Roles
- Learners as information makers
- Academics because the professional of evaluation and assets
- Lecture rooms as think-tanks
- Communities not simply viewers, however vested contributors
- Households as designers, curators, and content material assets
7. Local weather of Evaluation
- Fixed minor assessments change exams
- Knowledge streams inform progress and recommend pathways
- Educational requirements prioritized and anchoring
- Merchandise, simulation efficiency, self-knowledge delegate academia to a brand new position of refinement of thought
8. Thought & Abstraction
- On this mannequin, battle and abstraction are anticipated outcomes of accelerating complexity & real-world uncertainty
- This uncertainty is honored, and complexity and cognitive persistence are always modeled and revered
- Abstraction honors not simply artwork, philosophy, and different humanities, however the unsure, incomplete, and subjective nature of information
9. Increasing Literacies
- Analyzes, evaluates, and synthesizes credible data
- Important survey of the interdependence of media and thought
- Consumption of continually evolving media kinds
- Media design for genuine functions
- Self-monitored sources of digital & non-digital information
- Inventive and helpful content material curation patterns
The Inside-Out Studying Mannequin Central Studying Theories & Artifacts: Situational Studying Concept (Lave), Discovery Studying (Bruner), Communal Constructivism (Holmes), Zone of Proximal Improvement & Extra Educated Different (Vygotsky), Studying Cycle (Kolb), Switch (Thorndike, Perkins, Wiggins), Habits of Thoughts (Costa and Kallick), Paulo Freire, and the whole physique of labor by Wendell Berry