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.
Special Report
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 Opinion Motivation Management: The Foundational Skill in Learner-Centered EducationA key to learning is motivation, and it comes from within.Personalized Learning Opinion How Tech in the Classroom Can Enhance Human InteractionWant better conversations in your classroom? Let your students start teaching themselves.
Personalized Learning Opinion Helping CAOs Make the Shift to Personalized LearningExplore the difference between managed instruction and next generation learning, and learn ten elements of comprehensive solutions to the challenge of helping chief academic officers reframe their work.Personalized Learning Opinion A Shift in Literacy Instruction in a Primary ClassroomWe can learn a lot from kids when they've been allowed to truly use their voice and treated as an active player in the game of learning.
Personalized Learning Opinion Competency Without Compromise: Rethinking the High School TranscriptLearning design innovators have felt constrained by the traditional transcript. Fortunately, forward-thinking organizations are now collaborating with school-based innovators--and by working with networks of schools, districts, and systems, they're building an ecosystem in which deeper, personalized, and mastery-based learning can thrive.Personalized Learning Opinion Personalize Learning and Build Agency By Using the 4 PLC QuestionsIn this episode of the podcast, Tom chats with Tim Stuart about his new book, Personalized Learning in a PLC at Work: Student Agency Through the Four Critical Questions.Personalized Learning Opinion The Gift of Portfolio Defense: A Parent's PerspectiveIn my work, I wholeheartedly believe in the power and efficacy of a portfolio defense model, and am genuinely excited to share it with audiences of educators, funders, and thought leaders. But until I had one of my own children attend an Envision school and witnessed his 12th grade defense presentation, my rallying cry for portfolio defense was professional, not personal.Personalized Learning Opinion Top Three Parent Tips for Making the Switch to Personalized LearningAs a middle school teacher, when I found out that my administration was going to pilot personalized learning for incoming middle schoolers, I knew it would be a good fit for our family.
Personalized Learning Jim Shelton to Step Down as Head of Chan Zuckerberg's Education InitiativeDespite a surprising leadership change, CZI still plans to give hundreds of millions of dollars per year to support "whole-child personalized learning."
Personalized Learning Opinion Problem-Based Learning: Preparing Students for the Race of Their LivesWhat's the value of instruction that offers theory without valuable, hands-on practical experience?Personalized Learning Opinion How Self-Pacing Improves Students' Academic Achievement and Self-ConfidenceBy requiring all students to work at a predetermined pace irrespective of their needs, we as educators make the proactive decision to value speed over mastery. The solution lies in developing a classroom model that empowers students to work at their own pace.
Personalized Learning Opinion The Promise of GraduationGraduation represents a major milestone for high school students across the country. Here, educators reflect on its deeper significance for young people in 2018.
Personalized Learning Opinion Fresno Professionals Shifting Practices Towards Personalized LearningA look at Fresno Unified School District and their goals for greater personalized, competency-based learning at and beyond the classroom.Personalized Learning Opinion Seeing is Believing Tour, Part IIEarlier this year, Mountain View High School hosted the eighth stop of Thompson School District's 'Seeing is Believing' tour, which affords district staff and district partners an opportunity to see how schools are adapting under the district's push to personalize learning.Personalized Learning Opinion Building Capacity for Personalized, Student-Centered EducationThe Innovation Lab Network has identified the four conditions needed for a shift to personalized, student-centered learning.
