"Personalized" vs. "Personal" Learning - 3 views
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all children don’t learn the same way and personalization seems to honor those differences
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krcouch on 30 Mar 18we need to personalize learning for students so they can grow as learners. -
dassom on 04 Apr 18I like the part about honoring the differencees, When we ignore the difference in our students we are not really doing that great job of teaching. Sometimes it may be more work, but teaching the same way or in the same style everyday is also not fair to our students. Mix it up some days even if you can't fully commit to personalization. -
carlarwall on 06 Apr 18There are many things teachers can do on the daily to make learning different for students. The important thing to remember is to start small and not overwhelm yourself by trying to do too many new things at once.
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it implies moving away from the industrialized form of education that pumps out cookie-cutter students with the same knowledge and skills.
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agreed we need to have students with different mindsets and be able to grow as learners, Not just doing the same as all other kids
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Right. No longer are the majority of our students needing a certain skill set which allowed them to return to the farm as soon as possible. So much discussion that our school system still operates as it did 100 years ago. We must address this.
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“personalization,” “engagement” and “flip.
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Love the idea of all of these. I think the wave of the future is flipping the classroom and personalizing students' learning.
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Personal learning entails working with each child to create projects of intellectual discovery that reflect his or her unique needs and interests
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master a set of skills mandated by people who have never met them
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A learner profile is a fundamental element of a personalized learning system. The use of this technique is preferred over "one size fits all" approaches to learning. Many do not want things to be mandated to them and we know that relationships are an integral part of positive learning experiences.
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but meaningful (and truly personal) learning never requires technology
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This is sage wisdom/advice that we can't forget. Some folks try to make it seem like you need the tech when in fact you don't. As public servants, we have to think carefully and choose wisely when it comes to decisions on software/hardware and the cost/benefit involved.
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When using anyone else's resources it's important to be skepitcal. The resource has the obvious puprose of teaching or informing the student of something or teaching tem something, but technology is not necessary to perzonalize the learning, the method or way to personalize learning my be very low-tech.
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This really moves personal learning up in Bloom's taxonomy. Allows students to analyze and create with or without technology.
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it’s crucially more important to have the dispositions and the skills to create our own educational opportunities, not be trained to wait for opportunities that someone else has selected for delivery.
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The empowered learner can create their own educational opportunities. Not many people like to wait in lines, anywhere. Definitely not in school and without personalized learning, we put our students in positions at times where they have to wait for others to come along or for some other external factor beyond their control.
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It is so interesting to think about the possibilities that personalized learning could provide to so many students of all abilities.
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We often say we want creativity and innovation
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Sometimes when I give students the freedom of choice it motivates them to learn and others students lack curiosity and need guidance to spark innovation. -
Too many choices can also make it confusing for students. I hope this class will provide strategies to use with those unmotivated students.
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student moving through a prescribed set of activities at his own pace. The
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Even this personal learning at your own pace would be difficult if students were interacting with other students in forum. Forums would need to be done at some set time.
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Personalized learning should have flexible pacing, within reason. Classes should still have deadlines and set expectations providing framework for students to succeed.
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There is certainly a difference between personalized learning and working on a set list at your own pace.
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Technology was strikingly absent from these conversations. I
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To me technology or blended learning would have to play some role in getting away from the one-size fits all model. Technology allows students to explore on their own and offers many resources to do so.
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Technology also allows time to be part of student choice. The flexibility of doing online assignments provides more options with programs, research, and making .connecting world-wide.
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standardized tests, while at the same time telling teachers to be innovative and creative within their classrooms.
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The skills needed for real life jobs and situations cannot be accessed by standardized tests. Students should be learning about how to be innovative and creative to solve real problems.
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Teachers feel the pressure to follow districts curriculum so closely that they are scared to get away from teaching traditionally and giving students the opportunity for personalized learning.
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the best thing we can do for kids is empower them to make regular, important, thoughtful decisions about their own learning, what they learn and how they learn it
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I think it all starts with the empowered learner and follows with the teacher's ability to guide as necessary, the learner has to be at the center and making the majority of the decisions around the learning plan with support as needed.
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flipping doesn’t do much for helping kids become better learners in the sense of being able to drive their own education.
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I agree flipping doesn't always help students become better learners of their own education, but I think it does help students learn the lesson since they are able to view videos and then do more deeper problem solving. But it doesn't drive their own learning, we are still telling them what they need to learn.
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“’Personalized’ learning is something that we do to kids; ‘personal’ learning is something they do for themselves.
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When something is "Personalized" for a student, I feel we still have given the student what they need to learn what they are interested in, the technology, the resources, etc. If learning is supposed to be about what the student wants to learn, then they should be the ones to find the technology and resources they need to learn. That way, it is more personal to the student.
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I completely agree with this statement. Many students will still need that adult guidance and supports and then the teacher can step back and allow students to work toward their next steps.
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personalization only comes when students have authentic choice over how to tackle a problem
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If a student doesn't have a choice or a limited number of choices in what they want to learn or how to tackle a problem, then it truly isn't Personalized. The teacher still had some say in what or how the student was to go about learning the information or problem and how to solve it. Students need complete control and/or choice in the way they go about learning their interest.
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We often say we want creativity and innovation – personalization – but every mechanism we use to measure it is through control and compliance,
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It is true we always ask students to be creative and innovative so that they feel like they have control of what their end product is, but when we have the state and districts tell us what needs to be taught and then give standardized tests, the personalization has disappeared.
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control and compliance.
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Standardized testing and required assessments do not jive with personalized learning. They are ways to assess student understanding of concepts but are examples of the control and expected compliance in our current educational system.
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truly personalized learning experience requires student choice
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Here lies the sticking point with most teachers ... giving students a choice. Finding creative ways to do this, along with meeting standards and expectations will be the challenge of today's generation of educators. -
I agree with you. It is challenging to provide choice with all of the expected standards and CFAs, etc. How do we honor all things? I love to give my students choice, but it isn't always easy. Is it only the content where they don't get much choice? Can we vary our process and product options to allow for choice there? -
I think it would benefit us to see lesson plan or video examples where student choice is present while still addressing the standards. I think we talk a ton about the why but then struggle when coming up with concrete steps.
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That was flipping the curriculum, but it still wasn’t flipping the control of the learning.
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Unfortunately for me, this describes my 'flipping' experience as well. In my mind, they should be learning the material at home by reading, watching videos, and doing research and practicing, applying, and extending their learning at school. In reality what I have experienced is that only truly motivated learners want to learn this way and experience success. Forcing it on someone does not work ... and in the sense of this article is nowhere personalized learning.
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Agreed Shawn. "We" the teachers are still in charge of the students learning. We haven't given over control to the student yet.
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“delivery of instruction.”
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Interesting how the connotation with this phrase has changed over the years. One might argue in my early teaching years this was number 1 on the list of things a teacher better be good at. Today 'good teaching' is more about being a facilitator of knowledge and not the delivery boy of it.
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The main objective is just to raise test scores
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I long for the day when this isn't even a consideration! Until then, this topic must appear in every article like this. Ironic timing...we give the Iowa Assessments tomorrow and guess what, my boss(es) aren't asking me for my personalized learning plans, but rather what tactics were recently employed to raise test scores and show growth.
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while making sense of ideas is surely personal, it is not exclusively individual because it involves collaboration and takes place in a community
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resource rich
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I'm interested to see what "resource rich" looks like. If students are in charge of their own learning, what are the best resources to provide them? Is it that we have a lot of options like databases for them to draw the information, or is it the teacher's job to do some of that curation?
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“Personalized” learning is something that we do to kids; “personal” learning is something they do for themselves
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This is a critical step to get our students started. This is just like swimming. We could throw them in the deep end and see what happens or we could start in the shallow end and give them the tools and skills needed to be successful. I vote for the later!
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I agree with both of you. Educators do spend too much time doing things TO kids instead of guiding them to learn it for themselves. The critical step is to get them started by encouraging them to try and fail at new things. Students don't know a world without devices but they don't know how to utilize those devices as learning tools. That is the starting point in the shallow end of the pool (or as I know it - elementary school.) It is just as important to give them the skills needed to use the tools as it is to give them the tools.
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short term.
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If we can’t engage our kids in ideas and explorations that require no technology, then we have surely lost our way.
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So true....putting technology in front of a student, does not magically make a student learn.
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I agree. They need to be exposed to the skill sets needed to utilize the technology as tools for learning.
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The challenge some teachers see with this idea is that using the technology is the easy way to get kids engaged. There were ways to engage students in learning before schools went to the one to one concept.
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moving ownership of learning away from the teacher and more toward the student
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Who's doing the work? Flipping has become a very surface level strategy- as he said, taking care of those mundane housekeeping tasks, not really taking advantage of the possibilities!
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Well said! Flipping a classroom doesn't change learning ownership. It is just a different way to do the same teacher led lecture. It is not any different then creating or scanning a worksheet to do on the computer.
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That's a great way to think about that...who own's the learning? We haven't changed instruction or how the instruction is given.
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A term like “mass customized learning,”
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kids spend much of their time learning with and from one another.
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Thinking about how adults learn best- isn't that how we learn? Collaboratively with others? Rarely do I learn in isolation.
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tandardized way
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It's important that you have a standardize way of addressing the personalization. You need to know the end goal and the different pathways they can get there. If you jump into this without proper preparation you could loose some kids along the way.
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Our systems and assessments assume that neither content nor access to teachers is widely available, and that we must deliver a proscribed, fairly narrow curriculum to each child because if they don’t have it in their heads when they need it, they will fail at the task
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I think about how much I have learned outside of a classroom or a course. In education we have to get over ourselves thinking that once a student leaves our high schools they know everything they need to know and will never learn again (outside of school). Unfortunately- our assessments drive this. If a student is proficient, they are "good". :-)
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huge disruption
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I forgot about this phrase from our previous learning. Maybe it was in our Blended Book? I think it's a important phrase to keep in mind. If you are being true to updating your classroom/curriculum to match modern students it MUST be a disruptive environment.
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skeptical
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flipped classrooms, flipped teachers, flipped texts. For the uninitiated, the flipped concept suggests that we can now use technology to offload many of the more mundane classroom tasks
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This is such a large issue. People use technology and say they have flipped their classroom when in essence all they did was digitize their paper documents.
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It requires the presence of a caring teacher who knows each child well.
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It is important for me to know and understand my students. I think sometimes, after having new students year in and year out, we forget to do the little things that helps us to really know our students. I always appreciate the reminder.
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“monitor students’ progress,” we should immediately ask, “What do you mean by progress?” That word, like achievement, often refers to nothing more than results on dreadful tests.
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Umm, I can't help but think about the CFAs we are creating in our teacher teams. Are we doing things wrong?
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You want to really engage kids? Give them opportunities to learn personally, to create their own texts and courses of study, and to pursue that learning with others in and out of the classroom who share a passion.
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I think this is a very powerful statement. Every learner, whether they are young or old, will be more engaged in their learning if they are given the opportunity to decide their own courses of study with others who share their passion.
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A suffix can change everything. When you attach -ality to sentiment, for example, you end up with what Wallace Stevens called a failure of feeling.
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This is part of the discussion as to why the new ISTE standards reflect roles rather than actions. For example, instead of "digital citizenship" the standard now describes a "digital citizen", and I think this makes all the difference.
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Will Richardson
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I wonder if we asked our students what skills they thought they should acquire via school if they would be anything remotely resembling our state standards...
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synthesize and analyze information into original productions.
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This type of personalization also adds the higher order skills from Bloom's Taxonomy and is more rigorous for students.
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nothing to do with the person sitting in front of you
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PERSONalized learning is all about the person sitting in front of you, not what is easy for the teacher.
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allows students to work at their own pace and level, meets the individual needs of students
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When students are able to work at their own pace and level, they thrive. They are able to complete and correctly practice the skills that are being taught to them.
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But as is so often the case in education, I’m not sure we as a community are spending enough time digging to parse what those words really mean, especially in the context of what deep learning now requires in a connected world.
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This is sad, but true. Often in education, we jump in without fully understanding what makes something truly effective. Or we put our own spin on it to make it easier/ "more effective."
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And while they come from the same root, those two words are vastly different
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This is a very important distinction. Personal learning teachers students to become lifelong learners!
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personalized environment gives students the freedom
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with access to the sum of human knowledge in our pockets
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Who needs to learn any more when we can "Google" the answer? I've heard this comment time and time again. So now we need to set a new standard in how students learn.
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promote and give opportunities
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Yes, give the students opportunities for personalized learning. Students can choose their opportunity, it's not owned by the teacher.
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bits of information, not the construction of meaning.
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only choice
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eave little room for the kind of authentic, whole-child personalization many teachers dream of offering
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many school district leaders require public school educators to teach a specific curriculum
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Teachers want to provide personalized learning but are not always allowed the freedom they need. Teachers feel the pressure of 25+ students in one classroom meeting the standards they need to meet.
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She cautions educators who may be excited about the progressive educational implications for “personalized learning” to make sure everyone they work with is on the same page about what that phrase means.
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Each school district will need to have a conversation about what personalized learning is to be on the same page.
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