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Personalized Learning

Differentiated Instruction

Lisa Nielsen offers an alternative to differentiated instruction: great idea, hard to practice–at least the way most schools and classrooms are organized.

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Personalize and Deliver

As a prelude to the Innovate to Educate Symposium in Boston on August 4-6, 2010, we run another in a series of interviews with personalized learning experts. Here we ask Howard Gardner to tell us about his vision for personalized learning in an age of education reform. Howard Gardner is the Hobbs Professor for Cognition and Education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education.

Personalized Learning

Step Function Improvement

As the learning revolution matures, it is likely to be turbocharged by lessons about the neuropsychology of learning and motivation.  I don’t think we know much about this and don’t use what we know very effectively, but we are likely to learn far more than we know in the coming decade.

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EIA members know how to teach kids

Some people know how to teach a class.  Some people know how to teach kids.  Most folks that run tutoring centers are the later. I spent the day at the Education Industry Association meeting in New Orleans.  About half the folks there were associated with Supplemental Educational Service providers…