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New Learning Models: A Personalized Approach
Karen Johnson, SOCRATES Online
Jon Fila, Intermediate District 287
George Schoenborn, St. Peter Public Schools and SOCRATES Online
TIES 2012Sunday, December 9, 2012
Personalized learning…
is the process of contouring learning to the individuals that you’re dealing with, recognizing that we all have different strengths and weaknesses, different interests [and] different ways of learning.
Sir Kenneth Robinson
Personalized Learning
We need a system that can customize our education.
We need to shift some of learning to digital learning since we have an inherently modular system that can customize for different learning needs. Michael Horn
Michael Horn
Why use new models?
• We all learn at different paces.
• We all bring different background knowledge to a learning experience.
• We all have different aptitudes.
• We have different learning needs at different times in our lives.
Assumptions
Why do we group students by age and move them through in groups?
Industrial model
•Linearity
•Conformity
•Batching
Assumption
Why do we wait for students to fail and then offer remediation?
They form misconceptions about themselves that they need to unlearn before they can learn.
Assumptions
Why do we confine measurement of learning to what is taught in school?
There are many dimensions to learning.
Assumptions
Why do we hold time as the constant and learning as the variable?
Students may need less time or more time. Customize their learning to accommodate.
AssumptionsWhy do we advance students based on credits and time served?
Do we really know what a student in a certain grade or with a total number of credits knows?
Who owns the learning?
Our system is based on compliance.
Can we expect students to be fully committed to learning without involving them?
Innovation and Transformation
• Embed sound instructional practices. Match instruction to readiness and interest.
o Rich interactivities.
o Collaborate.
o Rapid feedback in real time.
o Intrinsically motivating experiences. Engagement remains high.
o Pace is determined by student mastery.
Innovation and Transformation
System Examples: Finland
Students are taught to take charge of their learning. Pasi Sahlberg
•Teaching is highly valued.
•Less facts. No standardized testing.
•More time developing creativity.
•Same teacher for 6 years.
•By 7th grade, students “own” academic plan.
•Goal is “not excellence, it is equity.”
System Examples: CESA 1 Wisconsin
•Comprehensive, data-rich learner profiles
•Customized learning paths
•Proficiency-based systems
https://sites.google.com/a/cesa1.k12.wi.us/instituteorientation/home
System Examples: Kunskapsskolan
http://www.kunskapsskolan.se/foretaget/inenglish.4.1d32e45f86b8ae04c7fff213.html
Personalizing Learning…
Understanding how learners prefer to…
• Access content and information.
• Engage with the information.
• Express what they know and understand.
Models in Practice
Jon Fila and George Schoenborn
Policy and Practice Inhibitors
•Time
•Seat time / attendance.
•Grade advancement based on age.
•Funding
•Membership not competency/performance.
•Entrenched structures
•Local districts.
•Teacher compensation models.
•Prescriptive curriculum.
