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 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.Personalized Learning Opinion Students Are People, TooTeachers may use 4 pedagogical strategies to meet the needs of students who are chronically absent, have a learning disability, or are easily bored.Personalized Learning Opinion Does Your School Support Deep, Long-Lasting Learning? Part 2: Flexible, Student-Centered LearningResearch suggests ways to design schools that are responsive to students' various differences and that ask them to take a more hands-on role in shaping their own learning.
Personalized Learning Brooklyn Students Protest Use of Online Learning Platform Designed by Summit LearningStudents in New York City's Secondary School for Journalism walked out of class to protest the school's use of an online educational tool, Summit Learning.
Personalized Learning Video Why You Should Attend Education Week's "Pathways to Personalized Learning" SummitIn this video, Assistant Managing Editor Kevin Bushweller shares insights about Education Week's ongoing coverage of personalized learning, and announces the Thursday, Dec. 6, 2018, "Pathways to Personalized Learning" online summit. In this online event, Education Week journalists and guests will staff online "discussion rooms" on a host of topics, including the research arguments for and against personalized learning, how self-paced learning can go awry, low-tech personalized learning strategies, principals’ views on personalized learning, how to train teachers for a radical change, and five big mistakes education companies are making in trying to serve schools’ personalized learning needs. This online summit provides you with a unique opportunity to interact directly with Education Week writers and editors and the personalized learning experts who helped shape this coverage. You will also be able to watch a livestreamed series of interviews with the writers and editors after they’ve “broken down” the topics for you.Personalized Learning Opinion Transforming High School by Challenging Students to Solve Real ProblemsVista High School students describe their experience with Challenge-Based Learning, striving to find solutions in their daily lives.
Special Report Personalized Learning 2018Four 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 Tough Questions Need Meaningful AnswersTeachers, principals, district leaders, policymakers, and researchers are really struggling to clarify what personalized learning means and how to make it work in classrooms.
Personalized Learning What Does Personalized Learning Mean? Whatever People Want It ToFor some, such variety is reason for optimism. But others warn that loose definitions could lead to incoherence and ineffectiveness in the classroom.Personalized Learning Raising Student 'Voice and Choice' Is the Mantra. But Is It a Good Idea?Educators are wrestling with tough questions as more schools embrace personalized learning and its accompanying belief in giving students more control over their academic experiences.
Personalized Learning Are Companies Overselling Personalized Learning?As "personalized learning" has taken off, education and tech companies have applied the term broadly and imprecisely, contributing to confusion in the K-12 marketplace.
Personalized Learning Video Personalized Learning: What Is It?There is increasing interest in the potential for personalized learning to motivate and engage students. But there is confusion and skepticism about what exactly personalized learning is, and isn’t, and uncertainty about its effectiveness. Providing students with more choices about what and how they learn may encourage them to take ownership of their education, but critics argue that it may be setting them up to fail. What is personalized learning and does it work? There may not be a single answer to this question, but lots of ideas about how it might improve teaching and learning.
Personalized Learning Opinion How to Create a Math Super TeamThe math super team teachers at Hale Junior High in Tulsa bring their own unique skills, experiences, and interests: indispensable to creating differentiated learning experiences for every student.
Personalized Learning Opinion How Teachers and Leaders Can Promote Personalized LearningPersonalized learning is the future of education. In the latest episode of the podcast, Tom shares five important attributes, five tips on learning environments and how teachers and leaders can help promote personalized learning.
