Personalized Learning
Education news, analysis, and opinion about efforts to use technology to customize education to the individual student.
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Self-Directed, Personalized Learning Under COVID-19: What Works, What Doesn't
Education Week explores how educators are trying to make personalized learning work in remote, hybrid, and in-person but socially-distanced learning environments.
Special Report
Personalized Learning
The optimistic vision of personalized learning shared by many educators does not match up well with what is actually happening in K-12 classrooms. That’s the big takeaway from Education Week’s latest special report on personalized learning.
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Personalized Learning 2018
Four critical questions about personalized learning are prompting educators to take a harder look at this approach and determine if they need to correct any missteps.
- Personalized Learning Personalized Learning: Modest Gains, Big Challenges, RAND Study FindsPersonalized learning is hard to implement and scale, the RAND Corp. found. But there are promising signs on student achievement, at least in some schools.
Personalized Learning Opinion Vista Unified Sets Sights on Personal Learning 2.0: Powerful Performance FrameworksWhen over 50% of its schools opted to actively engage in the "Personal Learning Challenge," Vista Unified began transforming how the district itself operated.
Personalized Learning Opinion Defining Personalization: Students As Agents and Teachers As CoachesThree school examples show that personalization is most effective when students become active agents involved in determining what and how they learn.
Personalized Learning Opinion Navigating the Murky Waters of Educational ChangeThe Innovation Lab Network at CCSSO is helping states manage change by building understanding and showing flexibility.
Personalized Learning Teachers' Union Faces Backlash Over Publication on Personalized LearningA story published in the magazine of the National Education Association sparked sharp criticism from some teachers and activists concerned about software-driven personalized learning.
Personalized Learning Gates, Zuckerberg Philanthropies Team Up on Personalized LearningA joint $12 million grant to support personalized learning reflects growing ties between the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative.
Personalized Learning Research-Based Tech Implementation: Q&A With Eric Sheninger and Tom MurrayThe book by two advocates and former educators outlines research-backed strategies for integrating technology and implementing personalized learning.Personalized Learning Opinion 10 Questions Worth Asking to Help Every Student SucceedThree trends and 10 questions for parents, teachers, and reporters discussed at the Education Writers Association meeting.Personalized Learning Opinion How Reinvigorating Math Class Turned Around a Troubled Middle SchoolA Connecticut principal learned important lessons about school change when she implemented a personalized approach to learning.Personalized Learning CTQ Collaboratory Using the Teachings of Confucius for 21st Century LearningTeachers need to look to the past as well as the future to encourage virtue in their students. William Anderson retools ancient teachings by Confucius to teach his students about self-awareness and accountability.Personalized Learning Chan Zuckerberg Initiative Gives More for Personalized Learning at State LevelThe Chan Zuckerberg Initiative and Chiefs for Change see the Every Student Succeeds Act as a lever for supporting personalized learning at the state and district level.
Personalized Learning Video 3Rs of Modern K-12 Education—Redefine, Redesign, and Re-imagineIn one of Arizona’s fastest-growing school districts, Dysart Unified School District, Superintendent Gail Pletnick has led a personalized learning transformation that, in spite of limited resources, has engaged students and educators in new ways and improved overall achievement. In her session at Education Week’s Leaders To Learn From event, Pletnick describes how schools can make changes to meet the needs of a generation of learners who must succeed in the innovation age.Personalized Learning Opinion Risk, Trust, Collaboration: Leadership for Personalized, Learner-Centered EnvironmentsThe Innovation Lab Network at CCSSO is identifying the competencies needed for school leaders in personalized, learner-centered environments.Personalized Learning "Personalized Learning" Guidebook Geared to Rural Districts' NeedsPersonalized learning can bring more courses and instructional experiences to rural communities, but internet access remains a barrier, according to a new guidebook from the Future Ready Schools project.
Personalized Learning Opinion Powering Personalized Learning in ChicagoOn a recent school tour trip to Chicago, we visited three schools creating powerful personalized learning environments that serve their unique student population and communities.
