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Personalized Learning Requires Effective Teaching First,Technology Second - Leading Fro... - 0 views

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personalized learning

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  • What is Personalized Learning? ED describes Personalized Learning as: Adjusting the pace of instruction so that instruction is more individualized. Adjusting the learning approach so that instruction is differentiated. Leveraging student interests and experiences so that learning is more... personalized.
  • The traditional teaching model treats all learners the same despite unique needs and strengths. We need a new educational model that takes classroom learning beyond a one-size fits-all mentality. Personalized Learning is not about technology, but technology helps.
  • technology empowers personalized learning from 1:1 computing, use of handheld devices, classroom response systems, and learning management systems.
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  • More than Technology Required
  • This focus on Personalized Learning is exciting because we've combined the emphasis on individual needs and empowered this approach with the power of technology.
  • one should hope that educational leaders will not view the purchasing of devices as providing quick and easy solutions. More importantly, Personal Learning demands a shift in how lessons are designed, which requires certain levels of knowledge and skillsets.
  • Personalized Learning, like all other models of instruction that attempt to introduce innovation in schools, is about professional development and support.
  • Personalized Learning requires that teachers should: 1) Know their students: Teachers should know their students ' interests, know their learning styles, and know their ability levels.
  • 2) Know their pedagogy and content: Teachers should be able to implement multiple paths to knowledge- having a variety of ways to help a diverse group of students learn rigorous standards.
  • Simply giving a teacher an iPad will not guarantee this level of expertise.
  • 3) Manage student learning: As teachers will now have classrooms where multiple activities may be occurring at the same time, this requires a level of classroom management, data keeping, and use of a variety of assessments.
  • 4) Access available resources
  • In this regard, district and schools will have to provide curriculum support and ensure that all teachers have the resources to focus on student learning.
  • Personal Learning has exciting potential for both the student and the teacher.
  • with technology and our information-on-demand society creating opportunities for more students to learn academics outside of school through opportunities such as through Udemy, Khan Academy, and LearnZillion, perhaps this change is inevitable.
anonymous

Can Apple Products Pave the Way to Personalized Learning? | MindShift - 0 views

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  • Without adjusting classroom instruction to take full advantage of a one-to-one classroom, many of these schools are just doing the “same old thing” but using more expensive tools to do so. And the operative word here may be “expensive” too.
  • Despite the rush to adopt Apple devices, it’s still not easy to sync them simultaneously to one administrative account, nor is it possible to blend a school’s iTunes account with a student’s school account with her or his personal account.
  • The promise of a personalized device was the “big reveal” at the end of today’s Apple event, when the company unveiled its plans to integrate the Siri personal assistant technology into its iPhones. Siri allows users to now control many aspects of their iPhones with their voices, including asking research questions (among its resources are Wikipedia and WolframAlpha) and listening to, dictating and transcribing messages.
anonymous

iMatrix infOhio - 0 views

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  • anonymous on 12 Oct 12
     
    Great tool for teachers to find aligned resources. What looks like a Rubik's Cube and teachers find Common Core classroom resources? INFOhio's IMatrix. This website helps educators design inquiry-based instruction that aligns to content standards of the four core curriculum areas: English language arts, mathematics, science and social studies. By searching the matrix by standard or by subject area and grade, educators can see how skills are scaffolded for students, find interdisciplinary connections and link to resources to teach those skills. Grades 6-8 are available now. Grades K-5 will be added by February, with grades 9-12 to follow later in 2013.
anonymous

ASCD Inservice: Feedback to the Future, with Tools Students Really Use - 0 views

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  • Poole's feedback traditionally came at the end of an assignment, was delivered in writing (the typical inked-up assignment), and covered lots of traits. Students weren't really reading her feedback
  • "Too often, feedback is just a way to justify a grade, rather than help students improve," Poole observed.
  • also needed to be more specific about what students should focus on, and show them how to incorporate feedback into their revisions.
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  • Matching feedback best practices and technology helped her hit these marks.
  • For screen sharing, Poole uses Join.me (because it's free, with no account required*). Students can share their screen with a group, or just the teacher, and it's a good way to quickly assess student work, especially if they're doing research (are they on sites that will give them appropriate information?) or preparing a presentation.
  • Poole will set her classroom up so students rotate through feedback stations. There will be a station for Traditional peer-to-peer feedback. Self-assessment screencast (use YouTube direct record function). LiveScribe feedback listening stations. Working with specific trait tools (students work on improving one aspect of their writing).
  • Getting student buy-in and understanding of the difference between feedback and criticism are lingering challenges to enacting these types of feedback processes
  • had students do a simple exercise—she brought in a teddy bear dressed in a funny outfit and asked how they would give feedback on the outfit as the bear's friend or as its enemy. Students put their responses into a big T chart, listing their ideas on what constitutes feedback and what criticism is, and this was displayed in the classroom all year.
  • her new, targeted approach to feedback takes less time and is way more effective in terms of raising the quality of student work as compared to teacher-centered, written feedback.
anonymous

From desktop to desk - Boston.com - 0 views

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      anonymous on 26 Sep 11
       
      need to figure out how to include kids without internet access. Can videos be downloaded and viewed in school library during study hall? saved to teacher web site and student access at public library?
  • But at school, it was worksheet after worksheet, even if I had already mastered a concept.
  • The kids who already get something are bored, the kids who are trailing behind feel lost and embarrassed. And the middle third isn’t having such a great time, either
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  • the Khan Academy, it’s a free website that offers a large library of startlingly clear mini-lectures, combined with software that generates exercises, feedback, and encouragement in the form of points and badges inspired by the video game world.
  • Khan offers a new way to teach mathematics for a country badly in need of inspiration
  • we may finally begin to see ways technology can contribute in the classroom
anonymous

Budget Crisis Inspires Award Winning Curriculum Redesign at Byron Senior High School --... - 0 views

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shared by anonymous on 30 Sep 11 - No Cached
  • Since they couldn't afford new textbooks, Byron High's math and science teachers offered to donate time to sift through the best free resources and create virtual textbooks. The kids would have access to the lessons 24/7 and the department would have lessons that met the new state standards.
  • In addition to virtual textbooks, why not add on YouTube videos of individual lessons? Kids would still have normal classroom instruction, but now they'd be able to rewind and fast-forward their teacher. No matter what time they did their homework, the teacher would be there to help them brush up on the day's lesson.
  • With this award, Byron Senior High School made a 180-degree turn from being so desperate they couldn't afford textbooks to having a wealth of high tech resources they can share with the entire Byron school system
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  • We have identified with a laser focus things that are essential.
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