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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.

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.