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This article talks about a district that has moved to individualized learning. It talks about success and obstacles. It includes things to consider when implementing individualized learning.

Great resource on Motivational Theories.  Provides easy to understand examples.

This is paper written back in 2007 about PLNs. The author argues that PLN are the future of elearning because of the power they have to offer individualized learning and give the learner the opportunity to organize his/her own learning. That educational institutions cannot expect to simply recreate the same forms of learning used in tradition education online. rather that we must learn to adapt to the new and emerging technologies of ubiquitous computing and social software. Considering that this article was written 9 years ago, I found it to be extremely accurate and representative of PLNs today.

Some ideas for using personal learning networks for personalized learning.

As flipped learning continues to grow, there is a greater need for flipped learning to scale beyond individual teachers flipping, to larger roll-outs with systemic planning and leadership.

This blog entry describes the efforts of a pilot group of Baltimore Public Schools to use tech to individualize learning in a blended environment. A focus of the entry is their decision to publicly share their journey, step by step, in the broader community.

Great article describing the different types of learning

Are you using a blended learning program in your classroom? Lexia Reading Core5 is a research-based program for students in PreK through fifth grade that is friendly for schools with lots of different types of technology. It provides norm-referenced data for teachers to help make instructional decisions for individual students.

It is tempting for teachers to believe that design thinking is for extraordinary, and only for rare individuals. In truth, design thinking is something all humans use every day. This brief video shares John Spencer's view of Design Thinking as an integrative experience!

A great resource for individualizing with small groups. Quick visual organization. Could easily be used for different subjects in a self-contained class. Here is an example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VBgTb16gbTk

This site, The Cool Cat Teacher, was very appealing to me. There is a great layout of useful information for technology, assessment, lesson plans, etc for multiple grade levels and content areas. This particular podcast stood out to me this week as I'm getting prepared for our Data Team meeting at my school next week. I also found it interesting in our content this week that online learning is perceived to be more individualized. In that case, being able to take data and use it to drive the direction of your classroom learning is very important.