Personalized Learning

Personalized learning is a mindset and approach to teaching that focuses on meeting each learner where they are and tailoring a curriculum that considers their interests, prior knowledge and skill level, and pace. Such a demand on the teacher requires sophisticated usage of technology in a combination of personalized, blended and online learning.

WI Welfare is to LA Edu-Employment Bargain?

Tom Vander Ark

May 4, 2010

All Hess all day at EdReformer. In addition to his greenfield article debuting today, Rick wrote an EdWeek tome yesterday bemoaning all the things that could go wrong with rapidly drafted laws the goal of improving teacher evaluation and winning a RttT grant. As he loves to do, Hess…

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Supporting Aggressive Reform: The Arne Duncan Case for Change

Tom Vander Ark

May 3, 2010

National Journal takes up the apparent dichotomy in Race to the Top applications between support vs. aggressive plans.

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The Five Great Reforms

Tom Vander Ark

May 1, 2010

Inventing the education system our children deserve requires five great reforms

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Dropping a Bomb Before National Charter Schools Week

Tom Vander Ark

Apr 29, 2010

Ironic that Stephanie Strom dropped a bomb on Imagine the week before National Charter School Week, don't you think?

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Metacog: Management, Mode, Motivation, Mastery

Tom Vander Ark

Apr 23, 2010

Learning to learn: becoming metacognitive of management, mode, motivation, and leading to mastery

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Innovation Stack

Tom Vander Ark

Apr 22, 2010

Big partnerships for learning mash-up space & app store based on research and open API data/assmt/content

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Dreambox Acquired: More Blended Charters Coming

Tom Vander Ark

Apr 20, 2010

Reed Hastings of Netflix makes a move. Acquisition opens pathway to blended learning models

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Less Deliberation, More Leadership

Tom Vander Ark

Apr 19, 2010

Tom Vander Ark looks for signs of leadership in the newly formed Senate HELP Committee.

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Just Do It

Tom Vander Ark

Apr 19, 2010

A poem for inspiration in the slog through ed reform

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The New Learning Landscape

Tom Vander Ark

Apr 19, 2010

No more lowest common denominator bargaining. That world no longer exists and it's time to learn.

	Beginning	Piloting	Implementing
From Fixed Standards to Competency-Based Mastery	BeginningFrom Fixed Standards to Competency-Based Mastery Beginning	PilotingFrom Fixed Standards to Competency-Based Mastery Piloting	ImplementingFrom Fixed Standards to Competency-Based Mastery Implementing
From One-Size-Fits-All to Adaptive Learning	BeginningFrom One-Size-Fits-All to Adaptive Learning Beginning	PilotingFrom One-Size-Fits-All to Adaptive Learning Piloting	ImplementingFrom One-Size-Fits-All to Adaptive Learning Implementing
From Prescribed Knowledge to Innovation & Inquiry	BeginningFrom Prescribed Knowledge to Innovation & Inquiry Beginning	PilotingFrom Prescribed Knowledge to Innovation & Inquiry Piloting	ImplementingFrom Prescribed Knowledge to Innovation & Inquiry Implementing
From Subjects as Silos to Transdisciplinary, Real-World Learning	BeginningFrom Subjects as Silos to Transdisciplinary, Real-World Learning Beginning	PilotingFrom Subjects as Silos to Transdisciplinary, Real-World Learning Piloting	ImplementingFrom Subjects as Silos to Transdisciplinary, Real-World Learning Implementing
From Schools as Self-Contained to Schools as Embedded in Communities	BeginningFrom Schools as Self-Contained to Schools as Embedded in Communities Beginning	PilotingFrom Schools as Self-Contained to Schools as Embedded in Communities Piloting	ImplementingFrom Schools as Self-Contained to Schools as Embedded in Communities Implementing
From Standardized Testing to Meaningful Assessment	BeginningFrom Standardized Testing to Meaningful Assessment Beginning	PilotingFrom Standardized Testing to Meaningful Assessment Piloting	ImplementingFrom Standardized Testing to Meaningful Assessment Implementing
From Institutional Ownership of Student Data to Student-Controlled Learning Wallets	BeginningFrom Institutional Ownership of Student Data to Student-Controlled Learning Wallets Beginning	PilotingFrom Institutional Ownership of Student Data to Student-Controlled Learning Wallets Piloting	ImplementingFrom Institutional Ownership of Student Data to Student-Controlled Learning Wallets Implementing

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