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 Q&A What Happens When Your School Asks You to Reverse Course on Personalized Learning?One teacher embraced the technique, with encouragement from a former district administrator. But he was told he had to reverse course, in part because of parent complaints.
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.
Special Report Personalized LearningThe 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.
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.
