The Inconvenient Truth About Personalized Learning – Education Next : Education Next

The Inconvenient Truth About Personalized Learning – Education Next : Education Next

In a new white paper out last week, “A blueprint for breakthroughs,” Michael Horn and I argue that simply asking what works stops short of the real question at the heart of a truly personalized system: what works, for which students, in what circumstances? Without this level of specificity and understanding of contextual factors, we’ll be…

Sharing: The Dystopian Future of Schools — The Synapse — Medium

Sharing: The Dystopian Future of Schools — The Synapse — Medium

Amid a flurry of interest in the latest panacea for student disengagement, a recent CNN report asked, Is personalized learning the future of school? The report, based upon a $133 million school startup known as AltSchool, is a response to a legitimate concern identified by former Google executive, Max Ventilla. The ambition to make the…