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A few weeks ago I had the privilege of presenting at the 35th annual Tri Association Conference in Guadalajara, Mexico on personalized learning. I also had an opportunity to sit in on Zoe Weil and Mike Johnston’s joint keynote on Read More …
The following is the syllabus given out to students last week to introduce the 8th grade Social Studies curriculum. Teachers Ben, Robyn, and Kim are part of an innovation project to experiment with personalized learning throughout the year with me. Read More …
This is my second in the “Yes, but …” series to support the obvious and subtle challenges of moving toward personalized learning. My first addressed the problem of students not buying in to personalized learning. Yes, but how do I Read More …
Part of personalized learning is the burden on educators to come up with a customized curriculum. That curriculum includes Open Educational Resources, or OERs, which are resources within the public domain. The problem with leveraging these resources is that the Read More …
By: Jim Rickabaugh Visitors to environments designed for learners to have a personalized experience with their learning often comment that they see significant variations in approaches and organization across classrooms and other learning spaces. They ask how they should make Read More …
One of the primary challenges with today’s curriculum is that it focuses on the past instead of the future. How will students grow if they are focused on outdated material? A curriculum quest sets out to solve that problem through Read More …
By Lorena Kelly Lorena Kelly is the assistant principal at Virginia Beach Public Schools It is that time of year … teachers are preparing for a new school year. I have spent the last week meeting with teams of teachers Read More …
What if a group of teachers got together and — in an hour or two — articulated the point of their subject area? How might it transform the way we frame work for our students? These “big goals” written in Read More …
The purpose of learning in this century is not to recite inert knowledge, but rather to transform it. It is time to change the subject. This video is from Larry Rosenstock and Rob Riordan at High Tech High. Do you Read More …
By Will Richardson For the full blog post, click here. This week, we start with a slew of reminders that in this connected world of people and information, how we learn is just — as if not more — important Read More …