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 '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 Video Personalized Learning at Work: “What I Need” SessionsThe Henry County School system in Georgia is trying to implement “personalized learning” across its schools, through a model that gives students big decision-making power and allows individual schools broad autonomy. One of the models being rolled out in Henry County is playing out at Luella Middle School, where every Monday, students go to “What I Need” sessions where they receive extra academic help in different subjects. Students like Hailey Miller, 13, give their preferences on what “WIN” they want to attend, and receive guidance from teachers who review their choices. Hailey can receive one-on-one help from teachers in the WIN sessions, or work in a small group, or complete tasks on a computer. In addition to the extra support, Luella Middle School also gives students unusual freedom to work at their own academic pace. Students are given “playlists,” or schedules of their learning in different academic subjects with plans for how they plan to show mastery in those subjects – either through tests, or performance tasks, or other means.
Personalized Learning Opinion On Becoming More Than Preparing: 10 Tips on Developing Humans Through SELThe importance of social emotional learning is widely recognized as key to success in life as it can help today's students become better learners, team members, contributors and friends.
Personalized Learning Opinion Personalized Learning in 2016: What's Working, What's Missing?We've made a great deal of progress in personalized learning in the last five years, but there is still work to do. Here are six signs of progress as well as six barriers to overcome in 2016.Personalized Learning CliffsNotes Goes Digital, Personalized ... For Some ProductsThe popular yellow-cover study-guide series is offering a personalized, digital subscription service for its test-prep materials, but not its better-known literature-review guides.Personalized Learning Summit Public Schools Expands Personalized Learning NetworkThe California charter network famous for its partnership with Facebook will expand its Basecamp program to 100 schools across the country.Personalized Learning Researchers Target Brain-Scanning Technology to Improve Ed. SoftwareA team at Carnegie Mellon University is using brain-activity patterns to better understand the mental processes students use to solve math problems.Personalized Learning Harvard Researchers Probe Student Time Spent Using DreamBox Math SoftwareThe more time students spent using DreamBox software, the larger their gains in achievement, according to a study by Harvard's Center for Education Policy Research.Personalized Learning Report Urges Changes in State Policies, Funding in Support of 'Personalized Learning'Rethinking how students accumulate academic credit and supporting "competency-based" learning modules among key prescriptions in an iNACOL report.
Personalized Learning 'Personalized Learning:' More Than TechnologyBy discussing what leading states are doing to customize learning for students, a new report emphasizes, yet again, that personalized learning and technology-based learning aren't necessarily the same thing.
Personalized Learning Opinion What's Next? Personalized, Project-Based LearningHere are ten U.S. K-12 next generation school networks with blended environments that combine personalized learning strategies and tools with challenging and integrated projects for students.Personalized Learning Opinion Three Paradoxes Confronting the Global EducatorWhile it may be that learners' best hope in a globalized world is to become a creative, collaborative, entrepreneurial and engaged lifelong learner, here are three paradoxes globalization itself presents.
Personalized Learning Video Personalized Learning Fuels Data-Privacy WorriesAs schools across the country go high-tech, fears about the privacy and security of students' personal information are on the rise.Personalized Learning LightSail Partners With Washington Post With Focus on LiteracyThe ed tech company says it significantly enlarged its digital library in the deal with the prominent national newspaper.
Personalized Learning Opinion Two Strategies for Empowering Teacher LeadersCoherence is key to quality in schools, and there are two key ways to create coherence for teachers and students.
