Editor Note: We have followed recent stories about the education fad of the day on our blog recently. Examples: “Project Based Education,” Whole Language, Outcome Based Education, and, of course, Common Core.
Now we see “Personalized Education” (Courtesy of the field of psychology, no doubt) may be headed your way to a public school near you. The first two paragraphs of the NPR story below describe the type classroom that produced students who managed to put men on the Moon, crack the atom, created the digital world around us today, and much, much more without “Personalized Education.”
We ask: Is the new Personalized Education practical and will it work or fail, as have so many other education fads before? Please let us know what you think.
Updated at 10:30 a.m. ET
If you do a Google image search for “classroom,” you’ll mostly see one familiar scene: rows or groups of desks, with a spot at the front of the room for the teacher.
One teacher, many students: It’s basically the definition of school as we know it, going back to the earliest days of the Republic. “We couldn’t afford to have an individual teacher for every student, so we developed a way of teaching large groups,” as John Pane, an education researcher at the RAND Corporation, puts it.
Pane is among a wave (Emphasis added: Ed.) of education watchers getting excited by the idea that technology may finally offer a solution to the historic constraints of one-to-many teaching.
It’s called personalized learning: What if each student had something like a private tutor, and more power over what and how they learned?
Pane is the lead author of one of thefew empirical studiesto date of this idea, published late last year. It found that schools using some form of personalized learning were, on average, performing better ( there were some wrinkles we’ll talk about later on).
It’s a concept
For the rest of this story a link is HERE
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