Personalized learning empowers students to drive their own learning by respecting how each student learns best, giving students voice and choice in designing their curriculum, and allowing flexible self-directed learning. It shifts away from the outdated factory model towards a more collaborative environment where students are actively engaged, have choice in what and how they learn and are assessed, and teachers act as partners rather than dispensers of knowledge. This shift is necessary because today's learners need to learn, unlearn, and relearn in a world where information is constantly changing and accessible anywhere, anytime through new web environments.

1. Personalized Learning
By Beth Nagel

2. What is Personalized
Learning and what does it
look like?
http://www.ed.gov/technology/netp-2010/learning-engage-and-empower

3. Empowering learners to drive
their own learning through:
 Respecting that learners know how they learn best
 Giving learners voice and choice: co-designers of the
curriculum
 Flexible, anytime learning
 Authentic learning that is self-directed
 Teachers acting as guides on the side
 Collaborative, flexible learning environment

4. Why make a shift?
 The Factory Model of the 19th Century no longer
applies in our rapidly changing world.

5. Why make a shift?
 New web environments are game changers in learning.
Learners are connected with information and people
around the world 24/7
 As our world has changed, so have learners’ needs
and access to information and learning

6. What does a Personalized
Learning Classroom look like?
 Learners are active and engaged
 Learners have a voice and choice in what learning
takes place and how it is learned and assessed

7.  The teacher is a co-designer and partner in learning
 The teacher is no longer the “keeper and dispenser of
the knowledge”

8.  The classroom is technology rich and allows for
anywhere/anytime learning

9. “The principle goal of education is to create men
and woman who are capable of doing new things,
not simply repeating what other generations have
done.” Jean Piaget

10. “It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in
creative expression and knowledge.”
- Albert Einstein

11. The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those
who cannot read and write, but those who cannot
learn, unlearn, and relearn.”
- Alvin Toffler

12. Personalized Learning is
necessary because…
”Upon our children - how they are taught - rests the
fate - or fortune - of tomorrow's world.”
B. C. Forbes