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.
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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 Q&A California's Top Superintendent Leaves for Ed-Tech Startup AltSchoolDevin Vodička is leaving the 25,0000-student Vista Unified district near San Diego to oversee development of personalized-learning software at AltSchool.Personalized Learning Future Ready Schools to Lead Digital Personalized Learning InstitutesFuture Ready Schools will lead a series of eight regional professional development events to help schools grow digital personalized learning initiatives.
Personalized Learning Leader To Learn From Personalized Learning in Practice: How a Risk-Taker Tailored Learning in Her DistrictPatricia Deklotz instills a culture of personalized learning in which students choose how and what they learn and teachers create their own microcredentials to advance their careers.
Personalized Learning Q&A Personalized Learning and the 'Internet of Things:' Q&AA new center at the University of Southern California brings together education and engineering to research sensors-based networks in the classroom.Personalized Learning Opinion New Report for Parents and Communities Opens Ideas on What is Possible with Personalized LearningMore on a new report from iNACOL designed to help families and communities understand the potential of personalized learning through real-life examples in schools across the country.Personalized Learning Opinion Rural Mississippi District Personalizes Learning for Teachers and StudentsDr. Philip Hickman, Superintendent of the Columbus Municipal School District in rural Mississippi, shares how Columbus is proof that personalized learning and innovative education can happen anywhere.Personalized Learning Opinion Why Education Reform Is So HardInstead of reforming the current inequitable system, states need to redesign education systems to enable all students to become prepared for college, career, and citizenship.
Personalized Learning Q&A Larry Cuban on Personalized Learning, Silicon Valley, and K-12: Q&ALong an ed-tech skeptic, Stanford professor Larry Cuban came away "greatly impressed" from a year spent observing Summit Public Schools, AltSchool and approaches to personalized learning.Personalized Learning Opinion When Projects Are Personalized, Learning Is SocialWell-designed project-based learning engages students with peers and with their community, which helps them build their knowledge and skills and enables them to solve problems that are personally meaningful.Personalized Learning Opinion What is Curriculum? From Managed Instruction to Personalized LearningIn this blended, mix-and-match, do-it-yourself world of education, what is curriculum, and who develops it? How do we know if it works?
Personalized Learning Opinion Personalized Learning in Action: Postcard From New HampshireBest known in education circles for its performance assessment, New Hampshire is a hotbed of innovation around personalized learning, writes Adriana Martinez of the Innovation Lab Network.Personalized Learning Tracing Personalized Learning Research Back to the 1970sWhat can decades-old research into "mastery learning" and the "Personalized System of Instruction" tell schools about contemporary approaches to personalized learning?
Special Report Personalized Learning 2016The 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.
Personalized Learning 'Red Flags' to Look for When Evaluating Personalized Learning ProductsEducators are asking tougher questions to sort the real personalized learning potential from the empty promises of some ed-tech products and services.
Personalized Learning Checking Up on Personalized Learning PioneersThe trend to individualize education has evolved at a gradual pace, as shown by a look back at some stories from several years ago.
