Personalized Learning
Education news, analysis, and opinion about efforts to use technology to customize education to the individual student.
Special Report
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 Video Personalized Learning in K-12 Schools, ExplainedPersonalized learning is expanding in K-12 schools across the country as educators pursue the goal of tailoring instruction to individual students’ academic strengths and weaknesses as well as their personal interests.
Personalized Learning Q&A: The Promise and Pitfalls of Artificial Intelligence and Personalized LearningAndreas Oranje, the general manager of research and development for ETS, talks about how the time is right to examine the role of AI in personalized learning strategies.Personalized Learning Personalized Learning: Challenges Ahead, Mistakes to AvoidEducators see promise in the vision of personalizing learning, but actually doing it is proving difficult, suggests an exclusive survey of K-12 teachers.
Personalized Learning 6 Big Mistakes That Can Undermine Personalized Learning EffortsIn this Q and A, Thomas Arnett, a senior research fellow for the Clayton Christensen Institute, talks about what K-12 schools get wrong most often.
Personalized Learning What Is Personalized Learning?Here's what you need to know about the realities of one of the biggest, most controversial trends in K-12 education.Personalized Learning Opinion What New Research Can Teach Schools Looking to Put Personalized Learning Into PracticeA Wisconsin Evaluation Collaborative study of personalized learning in Chicago unpacks how schools can successfully implement personalized learning, highlighting four common practices.
Personalized Learning Opinion Next Gen Change: Stories From Three EducatorsThree classroom educators describe how they applied a schoolwide goal to personalize learning to their own teaching this past year.
Personalized Learning Opinion Developing Wayfinders With Learning PlansTwo elementary school teachers use learning plans to help students develop wayfinding skills like goal-setting and exercising agency.
Personalized Learning Opinion 3 Fundamentals of Teacher Collaboration in Personalized LearningHow a strong start, clear boundaries, and deliberate reflection are key in creating a culture of collaboration among teachers.Personalized Learning Opinion Different Paths to the Same Goal: College and Career ReadinessTwo recent studies of Teach to One: Math highlight the tension in math between grade-level-based accountability systems and approaches to instruction that enable more personalized paths to college and career readiness.Personalized Learning Opinion Building on Success: Scaling Personalized Learning Across a NetworkWhen one school in its network designed a successful personalized learning model, Distinctive Schools faced the challenge of how to scale the model across its network.Personalized Learning Opinion Three Essential Ingredients for a Student-Centered ClassroomWhen these three ingredients are present in a truly student-centered lesson, students are most likely to learn both academic content and productive habits of mind.Personalized Learning Online Summit Pathways to Personalized LearningA big-picture look at how states, districts, schools, and education companies can better serve students through personalized learning.Personalized Learning Opinion Transforming High School by Supporting Student Self-DiscoveryTwo Vista High School students describe how the process of self-discovery within Challenge-Based Learning helps them progress as learners.
Personalized Learning Opinion Ed Tech and Universal Design for Learning: Because One Size Fits NoneThe UDL guidelines offer a valuable framework for educators who have embraced next-generation learning to improve teaching and learning for all people by designing at the margins.
