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PL Overview of Personalized Learning

"The use of the term "personalized learning" dates back to at least the early 1960s, but there is no widespread agreement on the definition and components of a personal learning environment Even enthusiasts for the concept admit that personal learning is an evolving term and doesn't have any widely accepted definition. In 2005, Dan Buckley defined two ends of the personalized learning spectrum: "personalization for the learner", in which the teacher tailors the learning, and "personalization by the learner", in which the learner develops skills to tailor his own learning."  WIKI

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Here's What Educators Think About Personalized Learning
Nov 5, 2019 - When Hinton High School tested personalized learning in a big way two years ... but also put in place personalized-learning approaches, educators such as ... And teachers' use of personalized-learning technologies—such as ... Proffitt, however, gave her district's professional development a rave review.

Against Personalized Learning - Education Week
Nov 7, 2017 - Like other efforts to improve U.S. schools, personalized learning is getting ... as research-and-development, with many experiments taking place at once, ... An educationprofessor at the University of California, Los Angeles, ...

Personalized  Learning Debate
"Andy Hargreaves and Dennis Shirley write that while there are advantages in students being able to access information instantly on-line, one should not mistake such processes for "something deeper, more challenging, and more connected to compelling issues in their world and their lives".
Alfie Kohn wrote that while personalized learning may sound like a useful strategy for education, in practice it's mostly just about selling technology products. Personalized learning promises a strategy to specifically adjust education to the unique needs and skills of individual children, he argued, but really it means merely "adjusting the difficulty level of prefabricated skills-based exercises based on students' test scores... [and] requires the purchase of software from one of those companies that can afford full-page ads in Education Week". While "certain forms of technology can be used to support progressive education", Kohn wrote, "...meaningful (and truly personal) learning never requires technology. Therefore, if an idea like personalization is presented from the start as entailing software or a screen, we ought to be extremely skeptical about who really benefits." WIKI

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