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.
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 Opinion Can an Emerging Approach to K-12 Education Buck the Troubling Trend on Women in Leadership?While all children invariably face failures in school, girls are uniquely socialized to see failures as evidence of inaptitude. Girls are more likely to compensate by strictly adhering to classroom rules, which creates a vicious cycle that's reflected in the number of women in leadership positions in industry. As we celebrate International Women's Day, however, I'm encouraged by the emerging innovation I'm finding in K-12 schools today.Personalized Learning Opinion Learning by Doing at Ferguson High SchoolPersonalized learning upends the traditional model of a teacher standing in front of a room and imparting insights and guiding discussions. Learning by doing is one of themes at Ferguson, one of Colorado's longest-running alternative schools and one of 91 Alternative Education Campuses in the state.
Personalized Learning Opinion A Middle School Student's Take on Personalized LearningI wanted to get a real idea of how personalization has changed the student experience, so I decided to go to the source. I interviewed Jonathan Reyes, one of our current 8th graders.
Personalized Learning Opinion Building Student Agency into Learning PathwaysOur transition from a teacher-centered approach to a learner-centered approach to education is really picking up speed at every school in our district.Personalized Learning The Cost of Personalized Learning? Six Figures, Then Status QuoAfter a one-time infusion of startup funds, six Chicago schools were able to sustain personalized-learning models on regular public funds, a new analysis finds.
Personalized Learning Opinion Do Students Understand What Teachers Are Asking of Them?Guest blogger Jacob Lewis says, "I think sometimes the manner of communication creates a disconnect between teachers and students. There's no way language can communicate what it's like to think with my brain or to view an idea or concept exactly the way I do."Personalized Learning Opinion The Virtues and Vices of Portfolio AssessmentA portfolio lends itself naturally to assessment, whose aim is to collect evidence to answer a question about learning or performance.
Personalized Learning Opinion Educator Networks: Building a Community to Advance LearningThe Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and FSG collaborated to release a new report that provides practitioners an opportunity to reflect on what we think we know about network design and theory and how we apply it in education.Personalized Learning Opinion Blended Learning (Re)DefinedTechnology-enhanced instruction can make learning personalized, student-centered, and available anytime, anywhere.Personalized Learning With New Personalized-Learning Software, AltSchool Moves Into Public SchoolsCalifornia's Arcadia Unified and Menlo City Park school districts will roll out the AltSchool platform, which aims for a comprehensive, flexible approach to personalized learning.Personalized Learning Opinion Schrödinger's cat in Personalized Learning: Providing Grade Level and Individual Level InstructionDistinctive Schools has been implementing a next generation model of learning that embraces personalized learning. In our academic model, we set high expectations for students to become curious, engaged learners who can thrive in college, career, and life and will be able to adapt and succeed in new and unknown contexts.
Personalized Learning The Year in Personalized Learning: 2017 in ReviewThe Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, states like Vermont and Rhode Island, and companies such as AltSchool all generated headlines about personalized learning in 2017.
Personalized Learning Opinion Loss of Freedom of Thought and Expression Threatens SchoolsLimiting speech and access to information is the antithesis of our purpose in a free and open democracy. The limits being placed on the internet and on speech in the CDC will affect our work, certainly.
Personalized Learning Opinion The Teacher's Role in a Student's Independent Learning JourneyWhat do you think of when you hear independent learning? Many people imagine students on laptops. But when integrated with a holistic personalized learning model that includes multiple learning modalities, it can be much more than that.
Personalized Learning Opinion It Takes a Village: Talent Cities at Vista UnifiedDropping out is not a high school problem; it's a middle school problem. How do we hook students early and show that what they are learning is relevant? This edition of NGLC's Practitioner's Guide to Next Gen Learning is the second of a two-part series about leveraging strong community partnerships to provide real-world learning to students in middle and high school.
