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The key to this transformation is not to standardize education but to personalize it, to build achievement on discovering the individual talents of the each child, to put students in an environment where they want to learn and where they can naturally discover their true passions (238). The curriculum should be personalized. Learning happens in the minds and souls of individuals–not in the databases of multiple-choice tests (248).
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Tero Toivanen on 13 Mar 09autotelic learning
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Sir Ken lays out the case for personalizing our kids’ educations in the context of transforming (not reforming) schools:
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Sir Ken Robinson’s new book “The Element”
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Finally, he came to the conclusion that the only way to do it was to create an individualized learning experience for each teacher, to take them where they are and mentor them, individually, to a different place. He’s in the process of surveying each teacher to determine what technologies they currently use, what their comfort levels are, and what they are most passionate about. Then, using those results, he and one other tech educator at the school are going to start going one by one, talking about change, looking at tools, making connections, and shifting the pedagogy.
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Great teachers have always understood that their real role is not to teach subjects but to teach students (249).
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Teachers are learners. If they’re not, they shouldn’t be teachers.
