Personalizing the Learning Experience: New Insights from Future Ready Schools – Medium When done well, personalized learning has the potential to radically transform how we teach and learn and how we create more equitable opportunities for students. In the 2016 National Educational Technology Plan (NETP), our flagship policy document for educational technology, the U.S. Department Education defines personalized learning: Personalized learning refers to instruction in which the pace of learning and the instructional approach are optimized for the needs of each learner. On Monday, September 12, we are supporting the White House Next Generation High Schools Summit in bringing together six states and more than 20 school districts to commit to redesigning their high schools. Also, as part of the Education Secretary’s 2016 Opportunity Across America Bus tour, on Tuesday, September 13, we are hosting ConnectED Day to celebrate the three-year anniversary of President Obama’s ConnectED initiative and the two-year anniversary of Future Ready.
Updated Personalization vs. Differentiation vs. Individualization Chart Version 3 Personalization v Differentiation v Individualization (PDI) Chart (Version 3) The PDI chart was created for a reason: to clarify the differences in these terms. In 2010, the National Ed Tech Plan defined all three of these terms as they are related to instruction. We needed to emphasize the differences: Personalization is learner-centered. It has been some time since we initially published the PDI Chart in January 2012. We updated the chart again to version 3 from your feedback. Individualization involves assessment OF learning.
Ten Tips for Engaging the Millennial Learner and Moving an Emergency Medicine Residency Curriculum into the 21st Century 3 Areas Where Having “The Innovator’s Mindset” is Crucial – The Principal of Change As I have contended for years, “Innovation” is about mindset, not skill set. How we look at the world, is how we move forward, learn, and create. In my book, “The Innovator’s Mindset“, I defined it as the following: “Belief that abilities, intelligence, and talents are developed so that they lead to the creation of new and better ideas.” Yet the term “innovation”, has often been equated with either technology or directly with business. Although this image is no longer being used, I still see it as very relevant graphic to many things we are trying to do to school today. I wanted to talk about each “E” individually and what their connections are to the characteristics of “The Innovator’s Mindset”, and how this is crucial to our thinking in education today. (The definitions of each of the three “Es” in italics under each area are from the Peace Wapiti Public School Division website.) Entrepreneurial Spirit Yet our notion of “creation” is changing. Critical Questions Moving Forward
The Next Generation of (Personalized) Learning We all want our children to receive the best education possible. One of the key questions we’re interested in answering, as a foundation, is “what does high-quality instruction look like in U.S. schools?” And one way we’re looking at answering that question is by looking at the potential of what the foundation calls personalized learning for students. Before we delve into what this looks like for our students, we’ve got to provide some basis for why it’s so critical. Did you know that less than half of the 2012 graduating class that took the ACT college entrance exam scored at the level that predicts earning a “C” or better in math as freshman in college? Sixty years is too long. For more than 150 years, the system has been organized around the idea that students of similar ages should move along together, through the same material, at roughly the same pace. We can all agree that students are individuals with different interests and learning needs.
Moving Towards Next Gen Learning *Reposted with permission from GettingSmart.com Raise your hand if you have uttered any of the following phrases in the past week: Blended learning Competency-based learning Personalized learning Digital learning Online learning Connected learning Deeper learning Project-based learning Student-centered learning Optimized learning Hybrid learning Next generation learning Now raise your hand if you can define them so that the neighbor you barbecued with last weekend could remember and articulate the distinctions. An extra hot dog – with relish! We are, let’s face it, a Tower of Babel when it comes to defining what we’re all doing here. We can make the accomplishment of positive change a few degrees easier, though, by continuously striving to introduce bits of clarity amidst the messiness. The graphic you see here builds (with Michael Horn’s and Heather Staker’s blessing) on the taxonomy of blended learning developed by the Christensen Institute.
Post Millennial Learner Characteristics - Today’s guest blogger is Kevin Bolinger, Ph.D. Dr. Bolinger is an associate professor of education and the Curriculum Instruction and Media Technology dept interim chair at Bayh College of Education, Indiana State University. Post Millennial Learner Characteristics Each generation of children in America bring unique talents and perspectives to the classroom as well as unique learning styles. Generational characteristics are good indicators of shared formative experiences but are limited indicators of learning style preference by unique personality differences. As an overprotected generation, post millennials, are less likely to be independent learners and more likely to develop into conformist young adults.