Personalized Learning

Is personalized learning a good option?

The article Preparing Students to Learn Without us, by Will Richardson, discusses the idea of personalized learning for students. While it explained what personalized learning was, it was very long winded about it. According to the article, students learn better when they are passionate about what they are doing. For example, if a kid likes basketball a lot and they learn math based on different things they do in basketball, that kid is more likely to retain the information. The article also gives information about schools that are already using the idea of personalized learning in their classrooms. Many schools allow students to make plans of what they want to learn and they get guidelines of when to get assignments done. Then they go off and use their guidelines to learn about what the school wants them to, but in a way the students want to learn.

Technology is a very important factor in the idea of personalized learning. Many students do personalized learning through blogging, and that is similar to what we are doing. I think that we can use our blogs for personalized learning about things we are doing in CAP. We can research the thing we are interested in and then write a blog post about what we learn. I feel, however, that personalized learning would apply more when doing projects. If we have to use them for personalized learning, then I am interested in the dystopian societies we are learning about in English. I want to learn more about how authors came up with ideas for their societies. I can research these things and then post about it on my blog.