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Learning Styles: Fact or Fiction? What This Decades-Old Theory Can Teach Us

Waterford

One study conducted in Taiwan, for example, came to the conclusion that educating students on learning styles can encourage self-reflection—always a positive thing.[9] 9] In another study, a professor at Auburn University found that using learning styles to teach concepts to individual students can improve information recall.[15]

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Million-Dollar Advice: The High Cost and Limited Return on Personalized Learning Consulting

Edsurge

Follow education technology-reform projects, and you’ll find mixed academic outcomes and expensive consultants. million to the firm for personalized-learning consulting services. To help teachers implement the learning model, schools and districts are increasingly paying top-dollar for specialized consultants.

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Three Things We Learned at Khan Academy Over the Last Decade

Edsurge

This op-ed is part of a series of reflections on the past decade in education technology. I made three assumptions back in 2010 that still hold sway today. Most were near our offices in Silicon Valley so that we could learn from them firsthand. At the same time, we knew that technology was nowhere near a silver bullet.

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IXL Learning Acquires ABCya, Expands Game-Based Learning Offerings

techlearning

Today, IXL Learning , the K-12 personalized learning platform, announced it has acquired ABCya , the creator of more than 400 educational computer games and apps for kids. Since 2004, ABCya has provided students from pre-K to 5th grade with access to hundreds of educational games and apps. MathBINGO : With more than 1.3

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What lessons does special education hold for personalized learning?

The Hechinger Report

The profiles are part of the school’s embrace of personalized learning, which centers on the belief that a teacher lecturing at the front of a classroom is a bad fit for today’s students. Personalized learning has, in recent years, become one of the most talked-about trends in education.

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What Lessons Does Special Education Hold for Improving Personalized Learning?

MindShift

The profiles are part of the school’s embrace of personalized learning, which centers on the belief that a teacher lecturing at the front of a classroom is a bad fit for today’s students. Personalized learning has, in recent years, become one of the most talked-about trends in education.

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Inside DC Schools: The Struggle to Develop Personalized Learning’s Independent Learners

Edsurge

This goal-setting feature is part of the Summit Learning Platform, an online tool used in a personalized learning program created by Summit Public Schools. shows that implementing technology is only part of the struggle for public schools seeking to make the switch to personalized learning models.