Don’t Let Personalized Learning Become the Processed Food of Education
Don’t Let Personalized Learning Become the Processed Food of Education
Michael J. Petrilli, Education Next, 2017/05/25
"After seeing a version of personalized learning in action recently," writes Michael Petrilli, "I’m worried that it may be reinforcing some of the worst aspects of standards-based, data-driven instruction. Namely: It might be encouraging a reductionist type of education that breaks learning into little bits and scraps and bytes of disparate skills, disconnected from an inspiring, coherent whole." All very well but he recommends instead to "teach a wonderful, aligned curriculum. More...