On 05/03/2010,
in engagement / engaging students, innovation, K-12 related, personalized/customized learning, virtual tutoring,
by Daniel Christian
Adaptive learning: Putting an idea into practice at the School of One — from EducationNext.org by Paul E. Peterson
Time magazine touted “the School of One” as one of the 50 top innovations of 2009—the only educational innovation to be given that honor. As described in Time, “each day, students in the School of One are given a unique lesson plan — a ‘daily playlist’— tailored to their learning style and rate of progress that includes a mix of virtual tutoring, in-class instruction and educational video games (emphasis DSC).” I stopped by a New York City middle school using the School of One last week to see how new technologies that help teachers adapt to each student’s learning level actually work in practice.
Educators, like designers, can benefit from identifying the student price point, the material the student is now ready and prepared to learn. With adaptive testing technologies now available, schools can quickly and efficiently obtain weekly, perhaps daily, information on what a student knows. Teaching can zero in on the price point, so the student is not given something that is either too advanced or too repetitive of what he or she already knows.
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School of One takes this idea one step further by also trying to identify student interests and learning styles as well. If a boy is a Little Leaguer; then baseball statistics may be the best way to teach math. If a girl plays volleyball, the examples can be modified accordingly.
On 04/28/2010,
in engagement / engaging students, pedagogy, personalized/customized learning,
by Daniel Christian
On 04/07/2010,
in higher education, K-12 related, pedagogy, personalized/customized learning,
by Daniel Christian
Personalizing learning – the important role of technology — from OpenEducation.net by Thomas
New Viewpoint – Personalizing Learning
Clearly, that mindset has changed. With learning styles now a part of the educational landscape today’s teacher is expected to adjust to the varied preferences of students so as to maximize the learning potential of each individual in the classroom.
Such an approach has been characterized by the global term: personalizing the learning experience. The concept is considered as critical to the next generation of teachers as it is for the next generation of students.
Personalizing learning involves differentiating the curricula, including expectations and timelines, and utilizing various instructional approaches so as to best meet the needs of each individual. Essentially, students should be able to do varying assignments and have the freedom to work at a pace that is conducive to their abilities and skill set.
(Inserted comment here from DSC — Can you imagine how a teacher or professor is supposed to do/manage this for 20-25+ students without the use of technology — and with that number of students in the classroom about to go up substantially?)
Not too surprisingly, individual elements of a personalized learning environment are well known to current educators. The challenge is not so much what those elements consist of but how to piece the elements together to form a cohesive strategy.
Most importantly, personalizing learning for the current generation of learners demands specific technologies. Educators need to understand that children are growing up in a media-rich environment.
Schools must deliver a product that engages students and generates within them the desire to learn. Today’s curricula must involve liberal uses of technology whenever it is relevant to the task at hand.
But technology also plays a more important role in the personalization process. Ultimately it is the conduit for teachers to move to a learning approach that features materials developed for each individual student.
Relevant graphic below from DSC:
On 04/01/2010,
in learning preferences, personalized/customized learning,
by Daniel Christian
Is ‘The School of One’ the future of schooling? — from dangerouslyirrelevant.org
On 03/08/2010,
in K-12 related, personalized/customized learning,
by Daniel Christian
What Is Personalized Learning? –– from theAplus.org
Personalized Learning is a unique, blended classroom-based and nonclassroom-based public educational model that is tailored to the needs and interests of each individual student. Personalized Learning is a 21st century, “on the leading edge” approach to public education that honors and recognizes the unique gifts, skills, passions, and attributes of each child. Personalized Learning is dedicated to developing individualized learning programs for each child whose intent is to engage each child in the learning process in the most productive and meaningful way to optimize each child’s learning potential and success.
The key attributes that comprise the Personalized Learning model are based upon a solid foundation of the latest educational research findings as to how students learn most successfully, including a strong emphasis on parental involvement, smaller class sizes, more one-on-one teacher and student interaction, attention to differences in learning styles, student-driven participation in developing the learning process, technology access, varied learning environments, teacher and parent development programs, and choices in curriculum programs. No other educational model offered in today’s public education system has integrated these proven educational research results in such an in-depth and comprehensive manner to serve the diverse needs of today’s public education students.
From DSC:
Looking at the above chart, I’m reminded of the need for each of us to develop our own learning ecosystem, as there are so many choices/approaches/tools/methods out there; however there isn’t a one-size-fits-all solution. There is no silver bullet for everyone to achieve their optimal amount of learning.
On 03/03/2010,
in digital audio, digital learning, digital storytelling, digital video, mobile learning, mobile technologies, multimedia, personalized/customized learning, virtual field trips,
by Daniel Christian
- Intuitive user interface.
- Automatically synchronizes your images to your audio recording.
- Make .m4v movies of your images and narrations from your iPhone or iPod Touch.
- Record up to 60 minutes per session!
- Choose from good, better or best quality levels for audio.
- Easy image selection and editing.
- Give images unique names and descriptions that can optionally be shown during recording.
- Image names become chapter markers in exported recordings.
- Pause while recording.
- Build slide shows with photos from photo albums, camera roll or built in camera.
- Quickly jump to any image during a recording using the pop-up image chooser.
- Recordings processed right on your phone, no 3rd party service required!
- Transfer movies to your computer via WiFi web sharing (requires WiFi connection).
- Upload movies to YouTube.
- Chose to make your YouTube movies private.
- Share your movie’s YouTube link via email.
- Class field trip
- New baby
- Lecture recording
- Creating mini-presentations on the road
- Out with friends
- Travel Logs
- Conference notes
- Honeymoon
- Museum tours
- Create Audio books
- Lab notes
- Insurance claims
- Accident documentation
- Medical diagnosis / dictation
- Land surveys
- Real estate tours
- Home shopping
- New town experiences
- Staff introductions
- Photo tours
- Language instruction
- Helping boyfriend study names/faces before meeting girlfriend’s family.
Original resource from:
Creating Digital Storybooks on the Fly with Sonic Pics — Living in the 4th Screen
On 03/01/2010,
in game-changing environment, journalism, mobile learning, new business models, participation, personalized/customized learning,
by Daniel Christian
In this new multi-platform media environment, people’s relationship to news is becoming portable, personalized and participatory. These new metrics stand out:
- Portable: 33% of cell phone owners now access news on their cell phones.
- Personalized: 28% of internet users have customized their home page to include news from sources and on topics that particularly interest them.
- Participatory: 37% of internet users have contributed to the creation of news, commented about it, or disseminated it via postings on social media sites like Facebook or Twitter.
From DSC:
Sounds an awful lot like where education is heading…portable, personalized, and participatory.
On 02/26/2010,
in Adobe, Apple, blogs / blogging / vlogging, computer science, corporate / business world, corporate universities / corporate training, design, digital audio, digital storytelling, digital video, educational games / serious games, emerging technologies, engagement / engaging students, graphics, higher education, internet, K-12 related, learning ecosystem, mobile learning, mobile technologies, music, online learning, online tutoring, personalized/customized learning, podcasting, programming, RSS, simulations, storytelling, training / L&D, trends, web design and production,
by Daniel Christian
On 02/25/2010,
in computer science, digital audio, digital storytelling, digital video, education technology, educational games / serious games, emerging technologies, engagement / engaging students, future of higher education, game-changing environment, graphics, instructional design, interaction design, interface design, internet, multimedia, online learning, online media, online tutoring, personalized/customized learning, simulations, Virtual Reality (VR) / worlds / learning,
by Daniel Christian
The International Journal of Multimedia & Its Applications (IJMA) is a quarterly open access journal that publishes articles which contribute new results in all areas of the Multimedia & its applications. The journal focuses on all technical and practical aspects of Multimedia and its applications. The goal of this journal is to bring together researchers and practitioners from academia and industry to focus on understanding recent developments this arena, and establishing new collaborations in these areas.
Authors are solicited to contribute to the journal by submitting articles that illustrate research results, projects, surveying works and industrial experiences that describe significant advances in the areas of Multimedia & its applications. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following
- Audio, image, video processing
- Digital Multimedia Broadcasting
- Education and Training
- Multimedia analysis and Internet
- Multimedia and Artificial Intelligence
- Multimedia Applications
- Multimedia Communication and Networking
- Multimedia Content Understanding
- Multimedia Databases and File Systems
- Multimedia human-machine interface and interaction
- Multimedia Interface and Interaction
- Multimedia security and content protection
- Multimedia Signal Processing
- Multimedia standards and related issues
- Multimedia Systems and Devices
- Operating system mechanisms for multimedia
- Virtual reality and 3-D imaging
- Wireless, Mobile Computing and Multimedia
On 02/23/2010,
in education technology, K-12 related, personalized/customized learning, student-related,
by Daniel Christian
On 02/16/2010,
in future, future of higher education, personalized/customized learning,
by Daniel Christian
Quote from “Opinion: Internet and Education — Back to the Future“ — from Vikram Savkar, SVP and Education Markets Director for Nature Publishing Group, a leading global science publisher:
That’s the promise of the Internet, which excels above all else at scale: scale of information, social interactions, geographic reach. But while there is seemingly nothing in education that isn’t migrating online — bookstores, labs, classrooms, field trips — not all of the Internet-driven attempts at innovation have equal merit. The acid test I apply to every new initiative is: to what extent does it bring us closer to the old system of individualized, personal, expert instruction, except with scale? (emphasis DSC)