Learner-Centered Vision Will Frame Next Generation Learning
This article is on the next 20 years of education, framed not by legislation, but by an emerging vision of learner-centered learning. Created by the rise of new tools, new schools, and new informal learning opportunities, a new vision for authentic, engaged, and personalized learning has become widely shared. Supported by nonprofit Convergence, a diverse group… Read More ›
Personalized Learning is Not a Product
This article argues the possible down-sides to personalized learning. For all the hype surrounding so-called “personalized learning,” plenty of skeptics worry that it could do more harm than good—especially within the context of larger trends in academia. They worry that, among other things, personalized learning products will be used not to improve student learning, but… Read More ›
10 Trends to Personalized Learning in 2016
This article focuses on three main concepts for trends to personalized learning predicted for 2016, starting with learners and teachers, and pulling together everything with culture and community that encompass the 10 trends. Personalized learning is happening now and will expand worldwide in 2016. Yet there are still different definitions for personalized learning and some… Read More ›
Future Ready Schools
This organization is a comprehensive effort to maximize digital learning opportunities and help school districts move quickly toward preparing students for success in college, a career, and citizenship. Future Ready activities and resources offer districts the information they need to plan, implement, and connect with like-minded district leaders. Future Ready materials help ensure that local technology… Read More ›
Diploma Plus
This organization believes in personalized learning as a systematic strategy to creating equitable education conditions, access, and outcomes that enable underserved youth to complete high school college- and career-ready. In addition to an overview of the organization, this website features an introduction to the Diploma Plus model, which features four essentials for success: Performance-Based Systems, Supportive… Read More ›
Learn About BDEA From Our Students
This video takes a look at Boston Day and Evening Academy through the eyes of its students and teachers. Boston Day and Evening Academy was designed to serve students that are over age, have previously dropped out, or have not experienced success at other schools. The school is open 12 hours a day and over… Read More ›
Our Path to Personalized Learning
This video, produced by Achieve Hartford!, on Our Piece of the Pie (O.P.P.)’s Path Academy in Windam, Connecticut gives the community an inside view of blended learning in action. Source Organization: Achieve Hartford!
Reflections on Student-Centered Learning Part 2—Educator Perspective
The International Association for K-12 Online Learning (iNACOL) hosted their annual Symposium in Orlando, FL in early November. Though I attended several thought-provoking and engaging sessions at the conference, those sessions that featured voices of the students and educators doing the hard and rewarding work to personalize learning stood out to me. I was struck… Read More ›
The challenge of “thinking outside of the box” while existing inside the box
In education as in other sectors, there exists this buzz phrase – “thinking outside the box.” While so commonly used, Highlander and its Fuse Architect partner schools have experienced that this phrase may not be as simple a concept as it sounds. From the start of the Fuse Architect program, Highlander and NMEF have… Read More ›
Reflections on Student-Centered Learning Part 1- Student Perspective
The International Association for K-12 Online Learning (iNACOL) hosted their annual Symposium in Orlando, FL. last week. I attended—along with over 3,000 educators, experts, thought leaders, and innovators—and left with a sense of both the enormity of the charge of educating all young people to succeed in the world of the future, and the importance… Read More ›
Watch Lectures at Home, do Homework in Class
This article highlights blended learning classrooms at Revere High School in Revere, Massachusetts. According to the Revere High principal Mr. Lourenco Garcia, introducing flipped classrooms has fostered more personalized learning opportunities, increased student ownership of work, and has created a dynamic and engaging learning environment for all its students. Source Organization: The Boston Globe Visit… Read More ›
Continued Progress: Promising Evidence on Personalized Learning
This report examines achievement in 62 public charter and district schools that are pursuing a variety of personalized learning practices, and examines implementation details in 32 of those schools. Researchers obtained achievement data for personalized learning students and a matched comparison group of students attending other schools serving similar populations. They also collected and analyzed… Read More ›