{"id":888,"date":"2010-02-04T08:57:33","date_gmt":"2010-02-04T13:57:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=888"},"modified":"2010-02-04T08:57:33","modified_gmt":"2010-02-04T13:57:33","slug":"digital-tools-expand-options-for-personalized-learning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2010\/02\/04\/digital-tools-expand-options-for-personalized-learning\/","title":{"rendered":"Digital Tools Expand Options for Personalized Learning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"edweek\" href=\"http:\/\/www.edweek.org\/dd\/articles\/2010\/02\/03\/02customlearning.h03.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Digital Tools Expand Options for Personalized Learning<\/strong><\/a> &#8212; from EdWeek.org by Kathleen Kennedy Manzo<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Digital tools for defining and targeting students&#8217; strengths and weaknesses could help build a kind of individualized education plan for every student.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Teachers have always known that a typical class of two dozen or more students can include vastly different skill levels and learning styles. But meeting those varied academic needs with a defined curriculum, time limitations, and traditional instructional tools can be daunting for even the most skilled instructor.<\/p>\n<p>Some of the latest technology tools for the classroom, however, promise to ease the challenges of differentiating instruction more creatively and effectively, ed-tech experts say, even in an era of high-stakes federal and state testing mandates. New applications for defining and targeting students\u2019 academic strengths and weaknesses can help teachers create a personal playlist of lessons, tools, and activities that deliver content in ways that align with individual needs and optimal learning methods.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Digital Tools Expand Options for Personalized Learning &#8212; from EdWeek.org by Kathleen Kennedy Manzo Digital tools for defining and targeting students&#8217; strengths and weaknesses could help build a kind of individualized education plan for every student. Teachers have always known that a typical class of two dozen or more students can include vastly different skill [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,69],"tags":[568,30],"class_list":["post-888","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education-technology","category-personalizedcustomized-learning","tag-568","tag-ple"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/888","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=888"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/888\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":889,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/888\/revisions\/889"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}