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Nancy Prentice

Stop The False Generalizations About Personalized Learning - Education Next : Education... - 0 views

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shared by Nancy Prentice on 09 Jun 14 - No Cached
  • Today’s factory-model education system, which was built to standardize the way we teach, falls short in educating successfully each child for the simple reason that just because two children are the same age, it does not mean they learn at the same pace or should follow the same pathway
  • what no one disputes is that each student learns at a different pace
  • everyone has a different aptitude—or what cognitive scientists refer to as “working memory” capacity, meaning the ability to absorb and work actively with a given amount of information from a variety of sources, including visual and auditory
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  • everyone has different levels of background knowledge—or what cognitive scientists refer to as “long-term memory.” What this means is that people bring different experiences or prior knowledge into any learning experience, which impacts how they will learn a concept.
  • targeting learning just above a student’s level such that it is not too easy or hard is critical to helping students be successful
  • the logic of personalizing learning and moving away from the current system that mandates the amount of time students spend in class, but does not expect each child to master learning.
  • today students do not in fact learn or master a common body of knowledge and skills at approximately the same time; they are merely taught them—which is far different from truly learning them.
  • Learning some things in common—of course not all things, but a strong foundation—is important
  • evidence seems to suggest that the achievement gap is exacerbated in the factory-model system when a student does not master a concept, develops holes in her learning, and the teacher just moves on to the next concept the next day.
  • when we move to a competency-based learning system concerned with rigor—in which students move on to new concepts only upon mastery (and there exists the notion of a minimum pace so students who are falling behind get more attention and gaps don’t grow too big)—
  • There are lots of notions and differing definitions of what personalized learning is, but when I, and many other disruptors use the phrase, we mean learning that is tailored to an individual student’s particular needs—in other words, it is customized or individualized to help each individual succeed.
  • Benjamin Bloom’s classic “2 Sigma Problem” study
  • by the end of three weeks, the average student under tutoring was about two standard deviations above the average of the control class.
  • The problem is that having a human tutor for each student is prohibitively expensive
  • blended learning is that we can gain the benefits of mass customization—many of the effects of a personal tutor in other words—without the costs.
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