Friday’s Epic Challenge Program Offers a Glimpse into NASA’s Innovative Learning
Tweet Charles Camarda presenting at the Epic Challenge Program. By Chrissie Wywrot Allison Zmuda was on a plane headed for Atlanta working on her ASCD blog for Learning Personalized. The gentleman...
View ArticlePersonalized Learning: Curating, Customizing and Co-Creating
Tweet By: Jim Rickabaugh Visitors to environments designed for learners to have a personalized experience with their learning often comment that they see significant variations in approaches and...
View ArticleTechnology Reviews: FreshGrade
Tweet The following review was written for Learning Personalized by Sherri Orr and Tammy Austin, both Instructional Technology Specialists from Denton ISD in Texas. Both can be found on Twitter –...
View ArticleWebinar: The Four Keys to Personalized Learning
Tweet Take a look at Epiphany Learning CEO & Founder Laura Henderson‘s webinar on the four keys to personalized learning featuring Allison Zmuda, education consultant and author, and Dr. Jim...
View ArticleHow Do You Find Open Educational Resources?
Tweet Photo: Getty Images Part of personalized learning is the burden on educators to come up with a customized curriculum. That curriculum includes Open Educational Resources, or OERs, which are...
View ArticleEpiphany Learning Webinar on Personalized Learning
Tweet Yesterday’s Epiphany Learning webinar on the four keys to personalized learning drummed up a lot of positive chatter on Twitter surrounding education consultant and author Allison Zmuda and...
View ArticleYes but … how do I balance student interest with Standards?
Tweet This is my second in the “Yes, but …” series to support the obvious and subtle challenges of moving toward personalized learning. My first addressed the problem of students not buying in to...
View ArticleWhen Students Learn to Choose, They Choose to Learn
Tweet Mike Anderson, Leading Great Learning I was recently working with a group of high school teachers, and they voiced a concern that I’ve heard many times. “Our kids are so compliant,” they...
View ArticleAsk Questions to Two Top Personalized Learning Leaders!
Tweet Two of the top leaders in personalized learning are lending their time to answer your questions. Dr. Eric Chagala, Founding Principal of Vista Innovation & Design Academy (VIDA), and Meghan...
View ArticleTriptiks Can Rev Up Student-Driven Learning
Tweet By Mike Fisher Mike Fisher This blog was originally posted on MiddleWeb and has been republished on Learning Personalized with permission In my workshops and my most recent ASCD book, Ditch the...
View ArticleEmpathy is at the Core of Design Thinking
Tweet What is design thinking? Simply speaking, it’s a way to keep us from limiting ourselves through the solution we believe to be true. Take an example from Daylight Design, a company that...
View ArticleHand It Over to the Students
Tweet Jessica Craig is a third grade teacher at Roxborough Intermediate in Littleton, Co., who writes about incorporating personalized learning into her classroom. Educator and consultant Allison...
View ArticleHow Grant Wiggins has Influenced Me
Tweet By: Craig Gastauer I cried. It was during the passing period between the first two block periods of the day as I was checking my text messages and the news stopped me in mid step. “Did Grant...
View ArticleCan We Personalize our Grading System?
Tweet Grades are often assigned based upon curriculum that looks at the average knowledge of a student base. Students should know X, Y, and Z, by the time they are X-years old. If they don’t, they...
View ArticlePL Magic: Greenwich High School Innovation Lab
Tweet By: Allison Zmuda I raced from the airport to get to Greenwich High School in Greenwich, CT to see what magic looks like when students are invested in their prototypes. And I was not...
View ArticleBring Writing Curriculum Back to Life
Tweet As a consultant and teacher of critical thinking, close reading, and analytical writing in higher education for over 20 years and counting, I am talking about a quiet little secret shared in...
View ArticleTechnology without Teaching is Just Another Textbook
Tweet Photo: Gabriel Santiago Will Richardson recently published an article on ModernLearning.com entitled, If Engagement is the Problem, Technology is Not the Answer. His story is a gripe aimed at an...
View ArticleWhat is Personalized Learning?
Tweet “Personalized learning” has, unfortunately, become a confused buzz phrase thrown around educational circles. While used as a label for something done in an attempt to help students learn, the...
View ArticleWhat’s the ‘Big Idea’ at Aveson Charter Schools?
Tweet In 2007, Aveson Charter Schools opened its doors. Their big idea? To deliver learning that was personalized to every student. That was a tall order in those days. Education reform was hot but...
View ArticlePersonalizing Learning in the Moment
Tweet By Noelle Johnson, Sixth Grade Teacher Noelle Johnson, sixth grade teacher, working with her students. In adopting personalized learning in my classroom, to say that I have felt alone and lost...
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