Personalized Learning
Learning easily tailored to every student's individual needs
Essential Questions
- What aspects of an online experience are most critical for personalized learning?
- How does the personalized online experience benefit student and teacher learning both in and outside the classroom?
- How can technology facilitate the personalization of learning?
Discussion sparked at Educon 2.2
----Most Critical Aspects to Personalizing Learning?-It must have multiple representations-for instance slide show, demonstration, game style
-Should have different reading levels of text
-Personalized for interests, ability, maturity level, learning style
-Very streamlined for teachers w/ limited resources
-Promote further discussion by students
-Allow students to congregate and build their own personal discussion group
-Gives students who are otherwise socially afraid a voice
Affinity groups
----Benefits of the Personalization inside and outside the classroom?
-- choices of different topics for an activity, students can choose groups ased on interests!! :)
-Allows learning to not be fixed to time
-Benefit for student is everyone finally is reached
-Benefit for teacher is opens up the time for students who need f2f assistance
---What can technology facilitate?
Learning
Communication
Connectivity
Perspective
Change
Interaction with peers
Moving forward at your own speed
Levels of learning/information