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.
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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 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.
Special Report Personalized Learning 2017Education 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.
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.
Personalized Learning Opinion 3 Ways to Put Students in the Driver's Seat with Personalized LearningIn 2013, Summit Public Schools built its own personalized learning platform to gain better insights into how students were progressing in relation to their personal goals. Fast forward to 2015 and what started with 19 schools has today grown to include more than 330 schools across 40 states.
Personalized Learning Personalized Learning a Big Challenge in High School Redesign, RAND FindsA new RAND evaluation of Opportunity by Design high schools found barriers to customizing instruction and implementing "mastery-based" progressions.
