Personalized Learning
Does personalized learning develop deeper learning experiences?
In this topic area, we take a look at these essential dimensions to achieving success in personalized learning:
- Deeper Learning
- Deeper Support
- Deeper Leadership
- Deeper Experience
Learning where student voice and choice are top priorities; where education is more responsive to students’ needs, interests and aspirations; where they’re given the skills and experiences vital to learning in the 21st Century.
Using the ‘deeps’ you’ll find routes to achieving personalized learning for your students – let them help you design educational activities and take greater responsibility for their learning.
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The Flipped Classroom Enables Personalized Learning
I passionately believe in the potential of the flipped classroom, and want to share a few insights from some education technology thought leaders about how it can facilitate personalized learning. I hope this piques your interest, and leaves you thinking about taking a little time over the summer to create some flipped content so you can give ‘the flip’ a try in the fall!
Aaron Sams and John Bergmann’s book Flip Your Class: Reach Every Student in Every Class Every Day is a great introduction to...
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4 Steps to Personalisation
A personalised school should ensure that every student and teacher is both challenged and supported in just the right balance to ensure that they continuously grow in ability and confidence.
If you accept this definition the next step is action. How do we move closer to this definition?
In the previous post I gave an outline of steps that could be taken. Here I have used REORDER to make these more direct
Step one starts with a school with absolutely no history of personalisation. The first ...
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An Interview with Dan Buckley - How do you personalized learning for every single student?
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Can a Personalization Project bring about improvements in only 7 weeks?
The most important step in continuous improvement is when we stop planning and start doing. Michael Fullan describes initial planning to meet your main purpose as 'getting ready' then he suggests moving to implementation as soon as possible so that real learning can take place. He summarises this as "Ready, Fire, Aim". Learning through doing is definitely highly effective, especially when landscapes are changing quickly as they are in the field of new technology.
It was with this in mind that I ...
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Personalization Project: Week 5
Twenty student leaders (2 teams of 4 and 2 teams of 6) have now completed their training and are about to receive their certificates. Each have demonstrated they possess the following skills
The ability to configure and set up their windows 8 tablet PC from out of the box
The ability to post a concern directly to our e-safety team anonymously if they hear of any student using the computers inappropriately
The ability to post regular chat and questions on our internal social network site. We ...
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Building a Personalization Project from Scratch: Week 3
Whilst I was at the BETT show this week, the team at saltash.net did an excellent job of training the four to eight students from each class that make up the 'Tech Research Teams'
Adam Ledger, head of the ICT support team organised a session for the students to be out of one lesson and in this time the whole ICT support team worked alongside the students to help train them. The leaders of each team worked with Adam. The students with the role of COACH for their team worked with Kellie Alders. ...
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Building a Personalization Project from Scratch: Week 2
Our task this week was to think of a personalization project that could help students build self confidence, help them set and achieve personal goals and help them improve their team working skills. Building in the comments that students should take a lead role in the design and implementation.
Our constraints are that we have enough money for 4:1 student:device and a time scale of mid July to complete.
There are 230 students in year 7 at saltash.net so if we gave each one the use of a device ...
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6 Vectors Advancing Personalized Learning
By Tom Vander Ark
Personalized learning will significantly improve achievement levels, boosting completion rates in both K-12 and postsecondary education. That claim is based on six recent developments:
Adaptive instruction: The most promising aspect of personalized learning is smart content that uses adaptive assessment to quickly diagnose learning levels and deliver the right unit of instruction. Examples include Dreambox, a K-5 math product; i-Ready from Curriculum Associates, with K-6 reading and math ...
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Building a Personalization Project from Scratch: Week 1
Let's start with a state school in the UK which is average in terms of deprivation indicators and budget, below average in terms of the condition of the buildings, but which has been recognised internationally for successful innovation despite these starting points. The school is Saltash.net Community School in Cornwall and over the next few months we will be designing and implementing a large scale personalisation project from scratch. Each week I will add our progress as a blog post and ask ...
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Peer Teaching as a powerful driver of Personalisation
For ten years I was experimenting with ways to personalise the classroom. I built differentiation into every lesson, audited the types of learning challenges on offer so that we ensured a broad balance, used assessment for learning to make sure parents and students knew exactly what was required and gave learners choices wherever possible.
Whilst this work did succeed in doubling the examination results it was still, if I’m honest, the same model of teacher led learning and didn’t really ...
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Personalized Learning and the Technology Debate
Personalized learning is the single most significant concept in education as we strive to meet the needs of all students and prepare them for the challenges in the 21st century.
It means that we honor every student's unique talents, support their learning modalities and styles and allow them to have a stronger voice in their own learning.
As opposed to one set of objectives for all learners, personalized learning permits the learner to create and engage in their own learning objectives and ...
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World Forum in Prague
Thank you to all the school leaders who contributed with your ideas and discussions at the forum. The range of current practice was extensive as were the ideas for how to further personalise learning. The idea which generated most enthusiasm was the REORDER approach. This provided a useful set of questions for us to consider what the barriers were to further progress and which strengths we were able to share....
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Key Personalisation Questions
What is personalisation?
Which models of personalisation are most effective?
Does personalisation require a revolution or gradual change?
How are the roles of teachers and learners different?
How do we preserve aspects of schooling that are already highly personalised?
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