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What pathways are being designed in today's schools to personalize the learning experience?
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Eight Harvard Ed School faculty members have eight minutes each to present their bold ideas for impact.
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Do not miss this all important video where Dr. Todd Rose explains why we need to abandon the "average" in education and create an education system that focuses on the individual learner. We can not continue in the current "average" system that was designed during the Industrial Age to support an Industrial Age economy. We need a system, as Dr. Rose points out, designed where "each student can become their very best". 
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June 24, 2015 4:37 PM
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Do not miss this all important video where Dr. Todd Rose explains why we need to abandon the "average" in education and create an education system that focuses on the individual learner. We can not continue in the current "average" system that was designed during the Industrial Age to support an Industrial Age economy. We need a system, as Dr. Rose points out, designed where "each student can become their very best".
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I was asked recently what it is about personalized learning that would make me want my children to learn in that environment. The question started me to think from a parent perspective about the va...
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Jim Rickabaugh, Director of the Institute at CESA #1 shares a personal perspective on the 10 reasons he wished his children could have experienced personalized learning. Jim clearly articulates his introspective thoughts that so many parents, including myself, would have liked to have shared. Thank you Jim for giving a parent's perspective.
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This is the archive of the second #plearnchat on Flexible Learning Spaces on 1/26/15.
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Our main question "how do learning spaces impact learning and learners?" helped guide the direction of the conversations and the chat was amazing!! Our second #plearnchat on Flexible Learning Spaces went by so fast that we are so glad that we archived it using Storify so we can take time in one place to review all the ideas, resources, research, pictures, and videos that was shared in the chat.
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I didn’t know I was doing personalized learning when I first changed the way I taught. It wasn’t until I wrote about it in a blog post and someone gave me the name and description that it clicked. It made sense really; I wanted students to have a voice, have choice, and to be re-ignited passionate learners within my classroom, all tenets of the personalized learning philosophy. For me it was a no brainer; why not teach in a such a way that students would want to be part of the learning? Why not teach in such a way that students became experts and have a place alongside the teacher? Yet, wherever I go resistance remains for personalized learning. In fact, some educators or districts are quite against it, but for many different reasons. I cannot be alone in seeing this resistance, so I thought a discussion of what those barriers may be and how you can approach a discussion to work around them would be in order.
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Pernille shares 9 barriers that educators may have about personalized learning and offers some discussion points on how you may want to reframe your thinking. Change is difficult and personalize learning often finds resistance because it may not be understood. Discover some great ideas from Pernille.
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January 31, 2015 4:52 PM
I think the first step may be for teachers to experience their own self-directed learning. It is hard to imagine until you do it. 
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August 8, 2015 2:57 AM
Pernille shares 9 barriers that educators may have about personalized learning and offers some discussion points on how you may want to reframe your thinking. Change is difficult and personalize learning often finds resistance because it may not be understood. Discover some great ideas from Pernille.
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Katherine Prince, Senior Director at KnowledgeWorks, writes about her work on the future of learning.
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Katherine Prince Senior Director, Strategic Foresight of KnowledgeWorks shares her personal vision for the future of learning as part of TEDxColumbus. Her talk, “A Vision for Radically Personalized Learning,” explored the possibility of truly putting students at the center of the expanding learning ecosystem. In this guest post, she also refers to her latest paper, “Innovating toward Vibrant Learning Ecosystems: Ten Pathways for Transforming Learning,” that aims to help education stakeholders move from vision to action in creating a learning ecosystem that is vibrant for all learners and not just for those with means. This graphic represents the ten pathways to create that learning ecosystem.
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Bryan Bronn, Principal of Branson Junior High in Missouri, shares their journey to personalize learning.
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Bryan Bronn shares this sign created by one of his learners who embraces personalized learning and realizes what it means to educate. Bryan also.describes his journey about creating personalized learning environments at Branson Junior High School and offers some great advice to administrators who are thinking about doing this at their schools. "Building robust educator capacity for personalizing the learning environment of a classroom, a teaching team or an entire school, requires empowering your teaching and learning team to experience the richness of personalized learning themselves. If you expect your team to facilitate personalized learning experiences for their learners, you must allow them to build their own island of success with personalized learning. Your school’s model will have common characteristics with other models of personalized learning from around the country and world; however it will also be unique if you allow your team to truly personalize your journey. We encourage you to go create your own island of success with personalized learning!"
- See more at: http://www.personalizelearning.com/2015/01/starting-small-but-dreaming-big-to.html#sthash.rkT0Vyjw.dpuf
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Check out the 10 Trends to Personalize Learning around Learning Culture, Learning Environments, Deeper Learning and Partnerships in Learning.
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2015 is the year the focus will finally turn the corner by organizations in education and the business world to get it right: it is about the learner. We put together four large concepts that encompass the 10 trends that you will see impacting learning starting this coming year:
Throughout 2015, we will be taking each one of these trends and elaborating on them in future posts. So expect some interesting posts around each of these concepts sprinkled with stories, examples and models. We encourage input from you and maybe can share some of your stories and journey. Contact us at personalizelearn@gmail.com
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December 18, 2014 11:55 AM
Exercice de trêve des confiseurs : traduire (ou non) ces tendances dans le cadre de l'entreprise 
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December 29, 2014 11:55 AM
This will be a good site to follow and apply to my English classroom. I am already on this path but new insight will be helpful in the development.
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Access, Engage, and Express, based on Universal Design for Learning (UDL) principles, is the lens for teaching and learning for all learners.
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Access, Engage, and Express (TM) is the lens for understanding how anyone learns best. The reason we came up with these three words was to help educators easily understand their learners using this lens. We want Access, Engage, and Express to be an integral part of their daily approach to teaching and learning. Using Access, Engage and Express was developed from the Universal Design for Learning® (UDL) principles that are based on neuroscience and how we learn.
"UDL is the framework for Personalized Learning."
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December 8, 2014 10:29 AM
Why do teachers and learners need a lens for learning? This post will share the importance of understanding how you learn best. Access is about how you transform and process information into useable knowledge. Engage is how you best engage with content. Express is how you demonstrate what you know and understand. If you use this lens, you and your teacher become partners in learning.
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Reggio Emilia approach has a strong belief that children learn through interaction with others while teachers observe and document the learning.
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The Reggio Emilia approach is about having children seen as competent, resourceful, curious, imaginative, inventive and to possess a desire to interact and communicate with others. The learning environment, the third educator, invites learners to explore and discover on their own as teachers and parents observe and document the process.
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Chris Watkins writes about the relationship between learning and performance in schools.
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Chris Watkins' article, Research Matters: Learning, Performance and Improvement, is about the relationship between learning in schools and performance in schools. Watkins' research concludes that a focus on learning can enhance performance, where a focus on performance alone can depress performance. With traditional instruction, the climate in the classrooms becomes more performance oriented over years of schooling. A performance-oriented environment focuses on looking good rather than learning well.
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Say personalized learning to most people and it conjures up classrooms where every child is doing their own thing and the teacher is furiously trying to maintain order and overview in an otherwise ...
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Pernille shares some pointers on how to begin on the path of personalized learning. She advises educators to look at what you are already doing that would count as a step toward personalized learning. Here are the six changes she suggests: > Change the way they sit. > Change the way they work. > Change the knowledge they have. > Change the expectations for all. > Change the timeline. > Change the conversation.
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Kathleen McClaskey's insight:
Join us on September 21, 2016 in the 5 W’s of Personalized Learning eCourse where you will learn the What, Who, Wow, Where, and Why to Personalize Learning. This eCourse includes what is and what is not personalized learning, how learners learn best using the Personal Learner Profile, the process using the new Version 4 of the Three Stages of Personalized Learning Environments (PLE), how teacher and learner roles will change, and why you need a common language and rationale for personalized learning when transforming teaching and learning. Collaborate with other educators in a Community of Practice.
This course can be take for 2 Graduate Credits or 30 hours of PD. The course webinars take place on Wednesdays 9/21, 10/5, 10/19, 11/2, and 11/16 [5pm ET, 4pm CT, 3pm MT, 2pm PT], next day for most of our international participants. - See more and register at: http://www.personalizelearning.com/p/5-ws.html
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August 6, 2015 4:53 AM
Join us on June 23rd in the all NEW 5 W’s of Personalized Learning eCourse where you will learn the What, Who, Wow, Where, and Why to Personalize Learning. This eCourse includes what is and what is not personalized learning, how learners learn best using the Personal Learner Profile, the process using the new Version 3 of the Three Stages of Personalized Learning Environments (PLE), how teacher and learner roles will change, and why you need a common language and rationale for personalized learning when transforming teaching and learning. Collaborate with other educators in a Community of Practice.
This course can be take for 2 Graduate Credits or 30 hours of PD. The course webinars take place on Tuesdays: 6/23, 7/7, 7/21, 8/4, 8/18 [11am PDT, 12pm MDT, 1pm CDT, 2pm EDT], next day for most of our international participants. - See more and register at: http://www.personalizelearning.com/p/5-ws.html 
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August 9, 2015 3:42 PM
The 5 W's of Personalized Learning eCourse is a 10 week online course with 5 webinars with activities and resources in a community of practice.
Danette Carroll, 8th grade Language Arts teacher, Luella Middle School, Henry County Schools, GA shared: ""I liked seeing your faces, posting and reading replies, online sessions, and watching the videos. I have no suggestions as this is the best online class experience I have had to date. The other day I was in my principal's office and we were talking about how to get teachers to make "The Shift"- I told him that everyone should have the opportunity to take this class! " |
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EpiC elementary in Liberty, MO is a model of personalized learning. Not just a school but an idea, philosophy, and journey for every person.
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Do not miss what happens with learners at EPiC Elementary that Re-imagined Education! EPiC Elementary (Liberty, Missouri) is an innovative, personalized, project-based learning community infused with technology designed to INSPIRE learners to be CREATIVE and THINK BIG! Learners use REAL tools and REAL materials to collaboratively construct REAL world applications of their knowledge. Our learning environment focuses on three areas for all learners: Equipping Learners, Engaging Communities, and Empowering Creativity. Empower Creativity EPIC provides a learning environment where students discover, embrace, and integrate authentic learning experiences to create and design real-world applications of their knowledge. Equip Students EPIC provides a learning environment through a personalized education where learners become collaborators, critical and creative thinkers, and communicators. Engage Communities EPIC provides a learning environment where learners, families, educators, and experts are fully engaged in authentic learning experiences designed to inspire kids.
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British Columbia recently updated their education plan and the focus again is on Personalized Learning for Every Student.
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The definition of "personalized learning" is as varied as the richness of instruction tailored to learners.
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Diane Laufenberg, director of Inquiry Schools, shares her understanding of what "Personalized Learning" means. ”For Laufenberg, personalization only comes when students have authentic choice over how to tackle a problem. A personalized environment gives students the freedom to follow a meaningful line of inquiry, while building the skills to connect, synthesize and analyze information into original productions." Read more about Personalized Learning on www.personalizelearning.com and join in the #plearnchat on Feb 10th at 7pm ET where the topic will be PBL and PL.
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KnowledgeWorks and The International Association for K-12 Online Learning have partnered to release recommendations for ESEA reauthorization.
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Here is some exciting news for those education advocates that have worked to change federal policy to include competency-based education. Take a few minutes to comment on Senator Alexander's draft to include new assessment options in the re-authorization of ESEA. "Senator Alexander’s discussion draft proposes two policy changes that would advance the K-12 competency education movement. He is accepting comments on his discussion draft until February 2, 2015 at fixingNCLB@help.senate.gov.
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Visual created by Sylvia Duckworth from George Couros blog on "8 Things to Look for in Today's Classroom" published on January 8, 2013.
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George Couros provided insight on the 8 things we need to look for in today's classrooms. Sylvia Duckworth recently created this graphic that represents George's blog post from Jan. 2013. These 8 things are elements that you would discover in a personalized learning environment where the learners become self-directed and self-motivated. Thank you George for providing a narrative about these 8 things to share with the education world.
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January 21, 2015 11:25 AM
Algunas ideas para considerar en el salón de clases
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Archive of Personalize Learning's first Twitter chat on 1/12/15 using #plearnchat.
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Check out this blog with the Storify of our first #plearnchat from Monday, January 12th. The six questions we discussed were:
Join us on our next Twitter Chat on Monday, January 26th at 7PM ET where the topic will be Flexible Learning Spaces.
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Infographic on the 10 Trends to Personalize Learning
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Take a close look at the 10 Trends to Personalize Learning in 2015 and follow us this year as we blog on each trend.
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August 9, 2015 12:21 PM
We decided our 10 Trends to Personalize Learning in 2015 needed a visual so we created this infographic. Enjoy! 
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August 10, 2015 5:26 AM
Take a close look at the 10 Trends to Personalize Learning in 2015 and follow us this year as we blog on each trend. 
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August 10, 2015 12:32 PM
Take a close look at the 10 Trends to Personalize Learning in 2015 and follow us this year as we blog on each trend.
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Borrow a strategy from Isaac Newton and have your students keep a journal of their questions as they grow their own ideas for personalized learning.
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Discover how Cathy Knutson took Genius Hour and had her learners create Query Books. How ingenious! She makes reference to two resources, Where Good Ideas Come From and What Do you do with an Idea to help her bring her idea to life. Here are her comments about the process her learners took to develop Query Books. "As students record their ideas, several things happen. They are giving their ideas a voice, recording them so they will be remembered, and building the habit of paying attention to their ponderings. Each query book would act as a personalized idea "bucket list" of sorts. As they collected and cultivated ideas over time, they would no doubt find that some have more merit than others (a truth that all great minds must accept). Although not every idea is born for greatness, each would help students become more creative thinkers."
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Discover how to create a culture where learners are more valued than students.
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The learner uses the UDL lens to share their strengths and challenges in learning, their preferences or needs to access, engage and express as well as their aspirations, talents and interests. At that moment when a learner is able to tell their story about how they learn with their teacher, the "partnership in learning" begins between the teacher and the learner. This opens the door for the teacher to have a conversation with the learner about learning goals, skills and strategies that the learner needs to work on to reduce any barriers and maximize learning. The undeniable outcome in using the UDL lens is that the child has been validated as a learner. This is something that rarely occurs today in anyone's education and will have a positive and profound impact for any learner.
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Check out the archive of the webinar, Make Learning Personal from its Learning.
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If you missed the Make Learning Personal webinar on November 19th, here is way to view it along with the twitter chat that went on during the webinar. About 100 educators from around the country joined in this session that focused on learning and learners.
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KnowledgeWorks released a paper, “District Conditions for Scale: A Practical Guide to Scaling Personalized Learning,” which lays out 10 district-level conditions needed to scale personalized learning. Discover what they recommend as conditions in scaling a personalized learning system in a k-12 school district.
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Kathleen McClaskey's insight:
Join Barbara Bray and Kathleen McClaskey, authors of the book, 'Make Learning Personal,' as they share research and pedagogy behind the term 'Personalized Learning,' along with examples, anecdotes, and stories from the classroom. Explore the differences in personalization, differentiation, and individualization and learn strategies for using the 'Stages of Personalized Learning' as a process in your classroom. To receive the free book, you need to be registered and must attend the webinar.
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Jesse Moyer shared his research on scaling personalized learning from the recent KnowledgeWorks paper, District Conditions for Scale, that he co-authored. Here is some of his reflections about the importance of meta-themes and the ten conditions to scale personalized learning.
Vision
The district’s vision should include the guiding principles on which each decision a district makes should be based. Each of the conditions should be aligned to the district’s vision for teaching and learning.
Culture
The vision clearly informs the culture each district is trying to create. A strong culture will encourage risk-taking among district and school leaders and teachers while enabling innovation at every level of the district.
Transparency
Transparency allows everyone in the district, from board members to community partners to parents and students, to take chances without fear of failure. By encouraging transparency, everyone in the district is better able to make decisions based on the best interests of the students."