{"id":20498,"date":"2019-09-10T15:47:18","date_gmt":"2019-09-10T19:47:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tiie.w3.uvm.edu\/blog\/?page_id=20498"},"modified":"2019-11-07T08:21:34","modified_gmt":"2019-11-07T12:21:34","slug":"ch-1-defining-personalized-learning","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/tiie.w3.uvm.edu\/blog\/ch-1-defining-personalized-learning\/","title":{"rendered":"Ch 1: Defining Personalized Learning"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Just what <em>is<\/em> Personalized Learning?<\/h2>\n<p>Personalized learning is a<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> partnership between students and teachers in the design of learning that emerges from students\u2019 interests, questions, needs, and preferences, towards an aim of self-directed learning (Bray &amp; McClaskey, 2014). <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The best <a href=\"https:\/\/www.edutopia.org\/article\/collaboration-personalized-learning?utm_source=twitter&amp;utm_medium=socialflow\">personalization is both personal and social<\/a>, filled with purpose, and rooted in community. <\/span><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a great way to meet the developmental and cultural needs of middle school students, as it&#8217;s engaging, active, personal, relevant, and social.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Why middle school matters\" width=\"525\" height=\"295\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/i8jTXK0Th9A?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h3><strong>Food for thought<\/strong><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/tiie.w3.uvm.edu\/blog\/personalizing-p-e\/#.XTiuu5NKib8\">Look at how one Physical Education program<\/a> is personalizing learning for students. What do you notice?<\/li>\n<li>Setting goals is an important part of personalized learning, but it can also drain some students&#8217; motivation.<a href=\"https:\/\/tiie.w3.uvm.edu\/blog\/goal-setting-for-personalized-learning\/#.XTiwNJNKib8\"> Here are some tools<\/a> to help avoid that!<\/li>\n<li>Call them what you want: passion projects, genius hour, curiosity projects, but these <a href=\"https:\/\/tiie.w3.uvm.edu\/blog\/curiosity-projects-stepping-stone-personalized-learning\/#.XTiweJNKib8\">personalized learning projects<\/a> are a way to jump into personalization and engage students.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><strong>Now tell us<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>How do *you* define personalized learning? Tell us on this padlet, below. (We&#8217;d love you to sign this with your name and school, or location, but over to you). While you&#8217;re there, check out the amazing range of responses. Do any really resonate with you? Did any make you rethink your own definition?<\/p>\n<div class=\"padlet-embed\" style=\"border: 1px solid rgba(0,0,0,0.1); border-radius: 2px; box-sizing: border-box; overflow: hidden; position: relative; width: 480px; height: 352px; max-width: 100%;\"><iframe style=\"width: 100%; height: 100%; display: block; padding: 0; margin: 0;\" src=\"https:\/\/padlet.com\/padlets\/pzu8cycllwe0\/embeds\/preview_embed\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<h4>Let&#8217;s go<\/h4>\n<p>Now let&#8217;s move from our definition of personalized learning over to examining your own.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><em>Chapter 1:<\/em><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Defining Personalized Learning<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/tiie.w3.uvm.edu\/blog\/?page_id=20531#.XYPX6ZNKhTs\">The Three Pillars of Personalized Learning<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/tiie.w3.uvm.edu\/blog\/?page_id=20559#.XYPX7JNKhTs\">The Definition of a PLP<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/tiie.w3.uvm.edu\/blog\/?page_id=20564#.XYPX75NKhTs\">New Student &amp; Teacher Roles<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just what is Personalized Learning? Personalized learning is a partnership between students and teachers in the design of learning that emerges from students\u2019 interests, questions, needs, and preferences, towards an aim of self-directed learning (Bray &amp; McClaskey, 2014). The best personalization is both personal and social, filled with purpose, and rooted in community. It&#8217;s a &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/tiie.w3.uvm.edu\/blog\/ch-1-defining-personalized-learning\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Ch 1: Defining Personalized Learning&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-20498","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tiie.w3.uvm.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/20498","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tiie.w3.uvm.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tiie.w3.uvm.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tiie.w3.uvm.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tiie.w3.uvm.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20498"}],"version-history":[{"count":22,"href":"https:\/\/tiie.w3.uvm.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/20498\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22040,"href":"https:\/\/tiie.w3.uvm.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/20498\/revisions\/22040"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tiie.w3.uvm.edu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}