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7 tips to better define personalized learning

eSchool News

Personalized learning is a pretty well-known term, but educators have different definitions for personalized learning, making for a sometimes-confusing approach to its implementation. Targeted instruction: Instruction aligns to specific student needs and learning goals.

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#8: 7 tips to better define personalized learning

eSchool News

Personalized learning is a pretty well-known term, but educators have different definitions for personalized learning, making for a sometimes-confusing approach to its implementation. Targeted instruction: Instruction aligns to specific student needs and learning goals. Focus on the future.

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Framework: Ed Elements on the ‘Core Four’ Foundations of Personalized Learning

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The consulting firm Education Elements designated four factors as the keys to successfully integrating a personalized learning model, based on its experience with 100 districts, 300 schools and 300,000 students. Educators are encouraged to personalize the program based on their needs and strengths. The Core Four.

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Competency-Based Learning Puts Students at the Center. It’s Perfect for Now.

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Asmaa, Ismail and their peers in public education were caught in the perfect storm of school closures and an unplanned and awkward move to online learning. For various reasons, school districts have been slow to shift from the traditional seat-time systems of education to a more modern model that heralds personal learning.

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Let Learners Get in Their Zone (of Proximal Development)

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Personalized learning” is a term that people take quite personally—and that leads to a variety of interpretations about what it means. If we’re okay with that soft definition, it will harm students,” he says. That’s a problem, says John Reyes, director of educational technology for the Archdiocese of Los Angeles.

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A ‘Learning Ecosystem’ Approach to Ed-Tech Acquisition

Digital Promise

This blog post is part of a series that highlight different stakeholders' perspectives on purchasing practices for K-12 personalized learning tools. It’s a reminder both of how the quest for a definitive answer can stunt innovation and how failure can be inevitable without enough planning.

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Is 2023 the year of the microschool?

eSchool News

Microschools have definitely made a mark in the K–12 landscape. In contrast, many microschools today include mixed age classes but take advantage of new learning technologies to make the small school model more feasible. Online instructional materials have come a long way from the McGuffey Readers of the late 1800s.

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