Presentation from ISTE 2012 on personalized learning

1. Personalizing
Learning
Richard Culatta and Karen Cator
Office of Educational Technology | US Department of Education
www.ED.gov/technology @OfficeOfEdTech

2. The traditional
classroom model has
some serious
challenges…

3. Approach to Innovation
“pencil-sharpening” innovation uses technology to improve existing models
http://www.photo-dictionary.com/phrase/1742/pencil-sharpener.html

5. The TragicallHistorie of
HAMLET
Prince of Denmarke
SCENE I. Elsinore
FRANCISCO at his post. Enter to him
BERNARDO: Who's there?
FRANCISCO: Nay, answer me: stand,
and unfold yourself.
BERNARDO: Long live the king!
FRANCISCO: Bernardo?
BERNARDO: He.
FRANCISCO: You come most carefully
upon your hour.
BERNARDO: 'Tis now struck twelve;
get thee to bed, Francisco.
FRANCISCO: For this relief much
thanks: 'tis bitter cold, and I am sick

6. Approaches to Innovation
Technology can be used in
transformative ways to address
challenges of the traditional
classroom model

7. Challenge #1
All learners are treated the same despite different needs and
challenges

8. Challenge #2
We hold the schedule constant and allow the learning to vary
vs

9. Challenge #3
Student performance data comes too late to be useful

10. It’s Time for a New Model
 “We must take classroom learning beyond a one-size-fits-all
mentality and bring it fully into the 21st century”

11. National Ed Tech Plan
“Technology gives students
opportunities for taking
ownership of their learning.
Personalized learning is paced
to student needs, tailored to
learning preferences, and
customized to the specific
interests of different learners.
In an environment that is fully
personalized, the learning
objectives and content as well
as the method and pace may
all vary.

12. What is Personalized Learning?
 Adjusting the pace (individualized)
 Adjusting the learning approach (differentiated)
 Leveraging student interests/experiences
= Personalized Learning

13. Examples of Personalized
Learning
 Systems that adapt to learner needs

14. Examples of Personalized
Learning
 Approaches that support differentiated learning

15. Examples of Personalized
Learning
 Increasing the frequency of formative assessments

16. Examples of Personalized
Learning
 Providing learners choice about what and how they learn

17. Examples of Personalized
Learning
 Customizing instruction based on performance/preference

18. Examples of Personalized
Learning
 Approaches that turn learners into creators

19. Elements of Personalized
Learning

20. Access Everywhere
 Students need their own devices/access
Computer
Lab

21. Personal Learning Plan
 Near-real-time
feedback to
parents/students/teac
hers:

22. Competency Based

23. Essential elements
 Ability for students to own their data
Student-managed electronic
learning portfolios can be part of a
persistent learning record and help
students develop the self-
awareness required to set their
own learning goals; express their
own views of their strengths,
weaknesses, and achievements;
and take responsibility for them.
- National Educational Technology
Plan

24. Data Streams
 Leveraging patterns from digital interactions to improve
improve instruction, and fuel research:
http://www.ed.gov/edblogs/technology/research/

25. Personalized learning is
for teachers too!

26. Personalizing Teacher
Improvement
Teacher receiving real-time feedback via earpiece

27. Race to the Top - District
Education

28. Final Thoughts

30. www.epiced.org

31. “Education is both a moral obligation
and an economic imperative. We are
in a fight for the future – a fight that
depends on education.”
- President Barack Obama

32. Thanks!
www.ED.gov/technology @OfficeOfEdTech