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 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.
Personalized Learning Opinion 3 Middle School Projects that Cultivate Skills Needed For AdulthoodBy flipping the traditional adult-driven school model and putting students at the center, Summit believes it can equip students with the skills, knowledge, and habits they need to lead a fulfilled life.
Personalized Learning Opinion How Do You Weigh a Teacher?Authors Art Costa and Bena Kallick tell us, "When considering teacher quality, we are concerned about whether the teacher has the more enduring habits that will serve them well as they continue to learn, grow and respond positively to change."
Personalized Learning Opinion Innovation EquityPeople all over the country, and world, are working on the same education issues. To address them efficiently and effectively, we need to share out, listen, learn, and collaborate. We need to work together to push one another's thinking. At the Boston Public Schools Office of Innovation we are consciously making an effort to break down these silos.
Personalized Learning The Case(s) Against Personalized LearningCritics say personalized learning isn't supported by evidence, leads to bad teaching, and depends on data-mining students.Personalized Learning Taking a Hard Look at a MovementAssistant Managing Editor Kevin Bushweller visited the largest high school in Vermont to see how one of the most ambitious personalized learning laws in the country is changing teaching and learning.
Personalized Learning Messy, Hectic, and Exciting: A Very Ambitious Statewide Personalized Learning ExperimentSchools in Vermont are making adjustments in curricula, teaching approaches, and school schedules to meet the expectations of a relatively new personalized learning law.
Personalized Learning Students Share Lessons Learned About Personalized LearningHow personalized learning is playing out for students should be evaluated carefully, educators say, because students are the ones with the most riding on these new approaches.
Personalized Learning Opinion Let's Not Jump to Conclusions about Personalized Learning...YetA recent study of schools implementing personalized learning said more about the schools' implementation than about personalization.Personalized Learning Barriers Persist for Rural Schools Implementing Personalized LearningPersonalized learning brings unique opportunities for rural students, but lack of broadband connectivity presents a challenge, according to a panel of advocates and state leaders.Personalized Learning Opinion 5 Lessons from Implementing Personal LearningOne hundred percent of Vista Unified's schools are now engaged in the Vista Unified Personal Learning Challenge. The transformation to Personal Learning at Vista Unified has been guided by the work of pedagogy experts, Allison Zmuda and Bena Kallick. In their book, Students at the Center, they define Personalized Learning as a "progressively student-driven experience where students have a role in co-creating investigations and ideas."Personalized Learning Opinion Five Approaches to Breakthrough SchoolsIn this post, Tyler Thigpen offers a typology of different approaches to redesigning schools.
Personalized Learning Opinion Vista Unified's P-3 Continuum: Closing the Achievement Gap Before It OpensThe world of education is changing rapidly. Students, parents, and teachers have a much broader array of materials, tools, and activities to access as they work together to execute a meaningful personal learning (PL) pathway. Our focus in this blog post is brushstroke #1: our work expanding early education supports through the design of a prenatal-to-grade-three pathway. We call this the P-3 Continuum.
