This is a nice post by Christina Milos (@SurreallyNo), a PYP educator in Europe who takes a critical look at educational trends and practices and writes about them with some academic background. In this post she distinguishes between differentiation, individualization and personalization in learning, explaining why she doesn’t do the latter.
Personalizedlearning. Differentiatedlearning. Individualizationof learning.
Three jargon elements that twist any teacher’s grey matter in spectacular motions. Which is what? Add to that the pressure that may come through a school PD (“We need to individualize learning!”) and you have the perfect combination for confusion.
There seems to be a continuous debate around the first (“personalized” learning) but I think clarification of terms is always useful before engaging in any argument. Also, a little historical background helps one understand the causes, underpinnings and implications of any educational approach.
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A bit of history
1914 – The inception of the concept rests with Helen Parkhurst who was heavily influenced by Maria Montessori and John Dewey’s work when she created the Dalton Plan, plan that was introduced in 1914 and was extended later in several countries across the world (from the U.S. and Australia to Japan and The Netherlands)…
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