Personalized Learning
Education news, analysis, and opinion about efforts to use technology to customize education to the individual student.
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Personalized Learning 2017
Education Week takes a hard look at the big arguments against personalized learning, what the latest research says about it, and how the approach is playing out in classrooms.
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Personalized Learning 2016
The push to design teaching and learning around students’ distinctive academic needs, and even their personal interests, has entered the K-12 mainstream and its expansion is quickening.
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Extending the Digital Reach
This special report outlines the progress schools are making to use digital tools to personalize learning, but also raises the question: Are they reaching far enough?
- Personalized Learning Quiz Quiz Yourself: What Do You Know About Personalized Learning?Quiz Yourself! What attributes define personalized learning and how have personalized learning initiatives shifted over time?Personalized Learning Opinion Some Promising Findings, and Some Cautions, on PersonalizationA new study from the Rand Corporation finds modest gains in student achievement from schools implementing personalization, but challenges in making it work.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.
