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 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.
Personalized Learning Opinion Factory-Model Change Won't End the Era of Factory-Model SchoolsIn this post, Andy Calkins argues that moving to new school models requires a new theory of change.Personalized Learning Opinion Scaling Personalized Learning at Distinctive Schools: Going Slow to Go FastScaling personalized learning can benefit from the lessons of early innovators, but investing the next group of educators in both planning and design is crucial.Personalized Learning Opinion Building Empathy With Extreme Users in the Classroom With Design ThinkingAll kids are capable of knowing where they are academically and taking the steps to move forward in their education. A teacher's intent to glean from students what strategies they preferred for learning a new skill, practicing that skill, and then demonstrating their understanding of that skill leads to a new way for co-creating learning pathways with and for her students.
Personalized Learning Opinion 15 Dimensions of Personalized LearningIt is easy to think of personalization simply as differentiated instruction, but a full commitment to supporting individual learning journeys has many dimensions such as these 15 we've identified.Personalized Learning Opinion Transforming High Schools: It Takes More Than a TV ShowA star-studded television special highlighting promising school designs is exciting, but true transformation will need the efforts of hundreds of thousands of educators, working together.Personalized Learning Opinion The Role of Advisory in Personalizing the Secondary ExperienceHigh school can be a confusing time, especially today with the increasing options for students due to the rapid expansion of digital learning. Advisory has to be the spine of the next generation high school.
Personalized Learning Opinion Three Steps Toward Building Vista Unified's Three BrushstrokesIn just three years, 100% of Vista Unified School District schools are transforming to Personal Learning pathways for all students. These three steps made the change possible.
Personalized Learning Opinion Reflecting on Personalized Learning Research: What We Think, What We WonderTaking a practitioner lens to draw reasonable inferences and raise thoughtful questions about personalized learning research.
Personalized Learning Teaching With Tech Is Hard. Two New Efforts Aim to Help.Digital Promise announced a new technology-coaching program. Summit Public Schools unveiled "the nation's first personalized-learning teacher residency."Personalized Learning Opinion Let's Put Personalized Learning in Its Proper PlaceIn the move toward personalized learning, we risk falling into several age-old traps that reduce a complex, challenging undertaking to a smaller, more easily digestible version of itself.Personalized Learning Opinion Personalized Learning Is a Mindset Not a Prescribed ModelDistinctive Schools understands that a commitment to personalized learning is a collective mindset that translates into structures and practices that evolve over time.
Personalized Learning Opinion Personalized Learning is (Again) Promising: A Snapshot of Practice & Student AchievementA new research report from the RAND Corporation suggests greater implementation of personalized learning may relate to more positive effects on achievement, but it's still early days for personalized learning research.
Personalized Learning Opinion Fueling the Fire: Training for Leadership at Alpha Public SchoolsAfter years of teamwork, reflection, and dedication to social-emotional learning and student leadership, Alpha Public Schools's Personalized Leadership Training has gone viral.
