{"id":238,"date":"2020-10-20T23:54:23","date_gmt":"2020-10-21T06:54:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0154\/?p=238"},"modified":"2020-10-20T23:59:49","modified_gmt":"2020-10-21T06:59:49","slug":"make-personalized-learning-great-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0154\/make-personalized-learning-great-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Make Personalized Learning Great Again"},"content":{"rendered":"

I suspect the last time <\/span><\/span><\/span>Personalized Learning was great when Plato was learning what he wanted (philosophy) from who he wanted (Socrates).<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Personalized learning<\/span><\/span><\/span> is often <\/span><\/span><\/span>equat<\/span><\/span><\/span>ed to<\/span><\/span><\/span> learning with a computer or technology-based instruction<\/span><\/span><\/span> and while <\/span><\/span><\/span>t<\/span><\/span><\/span>echnology has a<\/span><\/span><\/span>n important<\/span><\/span><\/span> role to play, it should not replace or overshadow a structural reform of the educational system. T<\/span><\/span><\/span>his is how<\/span><\/span><\/span> I envision <\/span><\/span><\/span>an ideal <\/span><\/span><\/span>future for my son, who will be in high school in 2030. <\/span><\/span><\/span>His <\/span><\/span><\/span>strengths, needs, skills and interest<\/span><\/span><\/span>s are regularly assessed through a <\/span><\/span><\/span>series of <\/span><\/span><\/span>interview<\/span><\/span><\/span>s<\/span><\/span><\/span> by <\/span><\/span><\/span>one or several<\/span><\/span><\/span> educational psychologists who create a personality profile. This profile will be updated by each of his subsequent teachers. It is used to help him choose a direction in his education as well as individual courses <\/span><\/span><\/span>that fit that direction<\/span><\/span><\/span>. <\/span><\/span><\/span>There are no mandatory courses.<\/span><\/span><\/span> For each individual course, he gets to choose his own teacher<\/strong> (since technology allows it, maybe even out of thousands of teachers across Canada) or even multiple teachers<\/span><\/span><\/span>. Perhaps that is how he also gets to choose what he learns in that course<\/strong>. Let\u2019s say if it\u2019s Psychology, <\/span><\/span><\/span>he gets to pick individual theories he is interested in. No more memorizing useless information for tests. I doubt that Socrates was giving multiple-choice tests to Plato and grading him. Abolishing tests altogether might not be a bad idea. For admission to higher education, a comprehensive personality profile built over 10 years of school can be used along with a series of interviews and oral presentations of accumulated knowledge.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Is this likely to happen in Canada? Not in 10 years. The inertia of the existing system is too strong to overcome. It can only happen in a built from the scratch alternative system. If it does happen in the distant future, who is more likely to take the risk, a public system or private enterprise?\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I suspect the last time Personalized Learning was great when Plato was learning what he wanted (philosophy) from who he wanted (Socrates). Personalized learning is often equated to learning with a computer or technology-based instruction and while technology has an important role to play, it should not replace or overshadow a structural reform of the… Continue reading Make Personalized Learning Great Again<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":171,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-238","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lrnt523"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0154\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0154\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0154\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0154\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/171"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0154\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=238"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0154\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":242,"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0154\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238\/revisions\/242"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0154\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0154\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0154\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}