The purpose of the personalized learning framework is to open student pathways and encourage
student voice and choice in their education. Personalized learning is enabled by instructional
environments that are competency-based. By tapping into modalities of blended and online
learning using advanced technologies, personalized learning is enhanced by transparent data
and abundant content resources flowing from redesigned instructional models to address the
standards. By doing this, new school models can unleash the potential of each and every student
in ways never before possible.
""The best projects, you're the one who has to figure it out and make it work. Because it isn't the teacher's project! Where they tell you everything, it's almost like you already know what's gonna happen. If it's gonna work out perfectly and they give you all the steps, then what's the point of the project?""
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Teachers provide support and instruction on a flexible, as-needed basis while
students work through course curriculum and content. This model can give students a
high degree of control over their learning.
Personalized learning is tailoring learning for each student’s strengths, needs and interests — including enabling student voice and choice in what, how, when and where they learn — to provide flexibility and supports to ensure mastery of the highest standards possible.
What blended learning offers is a rational approach, focused on redesigning instructional models first, then applying technology, not as the driver, but as the enabler for high-quality learning experiences that allow a teacher to personalize learning and manage an optimized learning enterprise in the classroom.
Horn and Staker’s blended learning definition asks the blended modality to enable the student to have increased control over time, place, path and pace. The difference between solely using technology in addition to teacher-centered instructional models and understanding the fundamental shift using blended learning implementations toward transformed, student-centered instructional models is getting clearer.