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Personalization vs Differentiation vs Individualization (Chart)
This chart is cross-posted on our new site at Personalize Learning.
After writing the post “Personalization is NOT Differentiating Instruction,” I received some very interesting feedback and more hits than any other of my posts. I think I hit a nerve.
So Kathleen McClaskey and I did some research on what personalization is and the differences between differentiation and individualization. We found very little information on the differences. And what we did find, we disagreed with many of the points. That lead us to create this chart:
Personalized Learning Chart by Barbara Bray and Kathleen McClaskey is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License.
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We appreciate the responses to this blog. We received this comment from a teacher from CESA#1 in Wisconsin where they are moving to a personalized learning system.
ยซ I am in Wisconsin and we are part of CESA 1 NxGL. I team teach with 42 kindergarten kids and we are using personalized learning. We are working through the tangles of being able to personalize with kids who are just learning to read, write and compute. It has always been a struggle to be able to differentiate the difference between true personalized learning vs. differentiation and individualization. You have done a beautiful job of creating a chart that makes this clearer for all stakeholders. This chart will be useful for helping colleagues, administration and parents see the true definition of personalized learning and the potential that it holds. ยป
Could you write on the blog the found bibliografic references? If is possible. Thank you.
Eduardo – Kathleen and I are putting together a bibliography of all the resources we are finding on personalization and any research on the terminology. I welcome any resources or research. We started a group on LinkedIn on Personalized Learning. Please join us! My email is barbara.bray@gmail.com if you want to write me directly. Thank you!
Thank you so much for creating the chart explaining the differences between these three approaches to learning and/or teaching. It will be a great aid in helping me explain to my colleagues why I needed to drop out of high school twice and college once before I eventually — to the surprise of many, including myself — became a teacher when I was 50 years old, and why many other students also need to get their minds out of the inch-deep, mile-wide relentless flow of American public schooling.
I am a great believer in self directed individual learning and it seems to me that if one is practicing self-directed learning there needs to be an option of not attending school when school is not the place where one’s particular inquiry can be satisfied. That is what happened to me: I left school not because I was not a good student but because I was so curious, so inquisitive that time spent sitting in school was interfering with my learning. Mandating seat time, and especially mandating additional seat time — until one is 18 — as President Obama has proposed, is a great threat to the increasing numbers of students for whom schools are incapable of providing sufficient learning opportunities.
It was interesting to read the comment that in one Wisconsin district there is an effort to practice personalized learning in a kindergarten program. Perhaps these students