Edina Digital Age Learning

Disclaimer ; These thoughts are my own and do not necessarily reflect the views of my employer. This post has been ruminating for a few months. Glad to finally get all my thoughts down. What is Personalized Learning? Last December, Pernille Ripp , educator and author of “ Passionate Learners: How to Engage and Inspire Your Students ,” posted on her blog about 5 Tenets of Personalized Learning . This post resonated with me, as I believe she really hit on a key aspect: Start with the STUDENT! Here are the 5: Student Voice Student Choice Student Planning Student Reflection Student Action My Take Giving students voice, and REALLY getting to know the students, fits in perfectly with our district’s embrace of Culturally and Linguistically Responsive Instruction , along with Doug Fischer’s work on “really getting to KNOW your students! Student Choice does NOT mean everything is a free-for-all. The idea is to give them choice in What they learn, How th...

Michael Fullan on Rethinking Pedagogy Michael Fullan , was the kickoff speaker at the 2015 Consortium for School Networking Conference in Atlanta. His talk was on, " The Stratosphere Agenda: Rethinking Pedagogy for Deeper Learning. " Fullan believes that we need a new pedagogy to leverage the opportunities digital technologies present. Here are some of my notes from the session.  2015 will be a breakout year, and we are in a three year window where the transformational change is moving and won't go back. It is an "unplanned digital revolution!" In 2011, he wrote an article on the "wrong drivers" of policy: Right Drivers                 Wrong Drivers Internal                        External Accountability Collaboration                 Individualism Pedagogy                 ...