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In March, Tom Loveless, a fellow at the Brookings Institution, took an outdated swipe at the logic behind moving toward a student-centered learning system. He in essence suggested that because the curriculum wars have been decided more or less empirically, that people bent on disrupting the classroom and the factory-model [...]
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Excellent analysis, imho. 
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My latest blog post describes an 8th grade student curation project. Through curating, students experienced the freedom to learn about what most interested them, and to follow their questions in the direction that they needed to go, as they explored topics of the 19th century social reform movements in their social studies class.
Nancy White's curator insight,
March 6, 2014 3:33 PM
My latest blog post offers the highlights from a student curation I collaborated on here in my district.
Nancy White's curator insight,
March 6, 2014 3:52 PM
When students curate, they own the learning. This is my latest blog post with some of the highlights from a recent collaborative student curation project I supported in my district. 
Mika Auramo's curator insight,
March 7, 2014 12:07 AM
Kuratointi liitettynä esim. blogiin syventää opiskelua ja kehittää tiedonhallintaa ja sisältöjen suodattamista.
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The Stages of Personalized Learning Environments (version 2) was updated from feedback and input from educators around the world.
Nancy White's insight:
Excellent resource!
Connie Davis's curator insight,
July 1, 2014 1:14 AM
An important first understanding of Personalized Learning discussions.
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Bray and McClaskey provide the Top 10 Trends for Personalized Learning in 2014
Nancy White's insight:
I am HOPEFUL these will be trends! ...Unfortunately, in our standards-based world, schools and districts end up cutting off the points of the triangle to make the newest thing fit inside their current circle of practice. Time will tell.
Connie Davis's curator insight,
July 1, 2014 1:20 AM
I consider these trends to be very important. I think provide kids with authentic learning opportunities is very important. Step back and be a facilitator and coach to see where the learning REALLY happens.
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I believe the ultimate power of blended and online learning lies in the potential to transform the education system and enable higher levels of student-centered learning through competency-based approaches.
Nancy White's insight:
I love these questions for education leaders looking to implement blended learning in their school or district:
-How is your program engineered to personalize learning? -How do you enable student co-design and goal-setting? (key to ownership) -How do you provide greater transparency? (key to buy-in) -How does your program transform instructional design to student centered? -How many forms of evidence are required for a st udent to successfully demonstrate mastery of competencies?
Connie Davis's curator insight,
July 1, 2014 1:21 AM
The questions for education leaders are paramount when considering the move to personalized learning.
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Nancy White's insight:
Another post at the intersection of blended learning & personalized learning.
Nancy White's curator insight,
October 7, 2013 12:00 PM
My latest blog post explores how implementing blended learning, with an emphasis on not just blending face-to-face learning and online learning --but also giving students a choice in path of learning - can help develop student creativity & innovation and lead toward personalization of learning.
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Shares my concern that "self-paced tutorials" do not equal powerful learning - and if this is all we mean by personalization, then this is not progress.
Amanda Coler-Pierce's curator insight,
October 16, 2013 8:07 PM
...you can't take "person" out of personalized learning, the teachers play key role in fostering the learning
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In my post, I share some ideas and resources to start building a culture of questioning in your classroom. A student who doesn't question, or worse yet, doesn't know how to ask questions, will likely struggle in a personalized learning environment. Additionally, questioning can be the pathway to uncover student passions - their "need to knows" and "want to knows." I believe it is an essential piece of personalized learning.
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This does indeed present a vision for a diverse learning ecosystem - the ultimate outcome of personal[ized] learning?
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With the rise of online and blended learning schools, today’s students have many options. See how blended learning brings together the best of both worlds.
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This is yet another piece that I believe illustrates that blended learning can be a path to personalized learning.
Nancy White's curator insight,
July 12, 2013 1:48 PM
While watching the video - I was struck by how much the entire school environment looked like a library. When you can't tear down and create a brand new school - look to your library as a great place for blended learning to take hold and cultures to shift toward personalized learning!
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Website with blogs and journeys about personalized learning where teacher and learner roles change.
Nancy White's insight:
Again, the importance of the teacher as designer of learning - but not designing for the average student, and then differentiating. The average student doesn't exist! Instead, design for the edges --the extremes. This post and video make this so understandable. I am thinking of sharing this with parents in our 1:1 program to help them understand the potential - and kick off a discussion about transforming education through technology.
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Contains a vivid description of what I believe is true personalized learning.
Barbara Bray's curator insight,
April 17, 2013 10:27 PM
Valerie Strauss shares George Wood's post on personalization where she questions "You can’t have a conversation about education reform these days without, at some point, hearing the words “personalization” and “engagement.” What do they really mean?"
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"Inquiry based learning is a key tenet of the Inquiry Hub. When students get to choose their own topics, with guidance and support from their teachers, peers and community members, these learners will produce thoughtful, rich and compelling answers. By helping students connect, create and learn together, we will encourage them to look outside of their box and seek a world of potential."
Nancy White's insight:
Starting with teachers asking really good questions and progressing to students asking the questions are first steps toward personalized learning. The richness of the learning environment described here that makes room for voice, community, and play will contribute to student ownership and personalized learning. I look forward to learning more about the Inquiry Hub Program! (http://www.inquiryhub.org/inquiry/)
Connie Davis's curator insight,
July 1, 2014 1:29 AM
Inquiry based learning is an important part of personalized learning. Students need to be explicitly taught these skills in order to progress. |
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Nancy White's insight:
A short reflection on the power of a label. In this case, my thinking is that there is a bigger, more important reason for 1:1/mobile device/technology initiatives, and that is Personalized Learning.
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But defining what exactly a "personal learning environment," or PLE, is supposed to look like is proving to be challenging.
Nancy White's insight:
Another intersection between personalized learning and student curators: PLE's - Personalized Learning Environments - are centered around students curating information.
"PLEs consist of a wide range of connections with both digital and nondigital resources. They blur the lines between formal and informal learning. And precisely because they are individualized to the needs and interests of the learner, eachone can look completely different."
Connie Davis's curator insight,
July 1, 2014 1:26 AM
I haven't tried Symbaloo but my students seem to find organization in OneNote simple as well. I'm eager to try something new.
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How might efforts to curate benefit from the portability and ubiquity of mobile devices? Tools like Evernote and GoodReads allow for easy and valuable curation. But the harder questions are pedagogical and curricular.
Nancy White's curator insight,
January 23, 2014 1:23 PM
What a wonderful concept - curating things we percieve to be beautiful. Howard Gardner is such an amazing thinker!
I also love the term "relevance portfolio" –this is exactly what I think will be a stepping stone towards personalized learning through content curation. 
ghbrett's curator insight,
January 24, 2014 8:30 AM
There are a numbers of tablet apps for iOS and other operating systems that can enable sharing, creating, and implementing projects in a mobile learning environment.
Connie Davis's curator insight,
July 1, 2014 1:28 AM
Curation is an interesting topic that I had never considered previously. I need to look into this further. Any suggestions would certainly be welcome.
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There is a shift happening in education that shows promise in truly meeting the needs of all students. That shift is about personalization around instruction that is paced to learning ...
Nancy White's insight:
Just love reading about a superintendent with a vision for personalized learning! This is an important first step towards getting there. The other critical element is community understanding and support. This district has made this a priority as they begin the transition.
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Students in Matamoros, Mexico weren't getting much out of school -- until a radical new teaching method unlocked their potential.
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From blended-learning, to personalized learing, to curiosity-fueled learning?
Nancy White's curator insight,
October 17, 2013 1:25 PM
Curating is where this begins, informal, unstructured, yet purposeful.
Nancy White's curator insight,
October 17, 2013 1:27 PM
The more I read about this kind of learning, the more I see blended learning as just a stepping stone. 
Gail M. Roper's curator insight,
October 20, 2013 12:51 PM
“THE BOTTOM LINE IS, IF YOU’RE NOT THE ONE CONTROLLING YOUR LEARNING, YOU’RE NOT GOING TO LEARN AS WELL.” My mom used to say this, she told me that the main thing that kids needed to learn to do was to teach themselves. She believed that it was a skill that would last them a lifetime. This article is compelling. It even elaborates on removing adult barriers.
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There is a shift happening in education that shows promise in truly meeting the needs of all students. That shift is about personalization around instruction that is paced to learning ...
Nancy White's insight:
This will be an interesting program to follow.
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"The technological solutions are more difficult to implement than would appear at first blush.
Nancy White's insight:
Great analysis of the problems of "teaching to the middle" and convincing arguement for personalized learning. However, I agree with Cognitive scientist Daniel Willingham who says "technology is a possible solution to the 'sweet spot' problem...Learning on computers does not neccessarily result in better learning...research shows that emotional connection between a student and a teacher is enormously important when it comes to how much a student learns."
This explains my concerns for those who believe personalized learning is all about adaptive, computer-based systems. I worry that those important teacher-student relationships will suffer - and that learning will be all about direct instruction with students like sponges - soaking up the information, and then regurgitating it - with little opportunity to transfer that knowledge and understanding to real-world problem solving and creative tasks. I don't believe students will develop the essential critical thinking, creativity, communication, invention, and information literacy skills they need for survival in their future.
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Learning is personal. Each of us is unique. Because learners are so diverse, learning needs to start with each learner.
Nancy White's insight:
Love this! "[Education] is about teaching and learning not delivering curriculum. It is about values, culture, and each learner being unique." -Barbara Bray
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Passion based learning and personal learning go hand in hand.
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I think this lends itself well to personalized learning as I understand it --Focus on developing kids as "uncommon" learners.
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In my latest blog post, I explored the convergence of curating and personalized learning.
Kathy Schrock's curator insight,
January 23, 2014 7:02 PM
Nancy makes some great points about sutdents personalizing their own learning! 
Angel Somers's curator insight,
February 2, 2014 1:28 PM
We talk about teachers creating their own Personal learing Networks, but we should be moving beyond . Now we ned our students to egin creating their own PLN's so that they can customize their learning.
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"Flipboard is a fantastic ereading tool which has also become a premier curation tool. I've created a magazine Education Inspirivation that you can subscribe to in Flipboard by clicking on the Flipboard link:http://flip.it/WaRGT" Via John Evans
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I just revisited Flipboard for the first time in a long time after reading Vicky's review. I do believe this would be a great curation tool - especially for those lucky enough to have a 1:1 iPad classroom!
Ludmila Smirnova's curator insight,
April 17, 2013 1:49 AM
Amazing! More and more tools to engage students in active learning
Nancy White's curator insight,
April 17, 2013 12:12 PM
This seems like a very easy-to-use tool for curating resources using iPads!
Audrey Nay's curator insight,
April 23, 2013 6:59 AM
and others: 10 iPad Apps for Web Curation Curation vs. Aggregation? Curation is such a necessity these days. The overwhelming wave of information we are exposed to is drowning us in facts and opinion. Not only do we need to be curating the information that we are consuming but we need to be insisting that our students have the skills and necessary tools in which to curate their own world. I have listed a number of capable curation apps that can help to do just that.http://appsineducation.blogspot.com.au/2012/01/10-ipad-apps-for-web-curation.html |
Interesting analysis.