Welcome to Week 5!
We are very excited to kick off the Opportunity Forecast portion of this course with our OER on Personalized Learning.
Personalized Learning was quite the interesting topic to tackle, as it is an intersection point of many of the emerging markets you will all be guiding us through over the coming weeks. As it is a very broad subject, our OER focused primarily towards personalized learning technologies designed to aid both beginning and struggling readers. Here’s what you can expect from the week (and what we’re hoping to get back from you):
Part 1) Personalized Learning – defining what it is and what it looks like in action
Activities to complete:
a) Defining personalized learning in your own words
b) Sharing your thoughts on how advances in personalized learning might change the roles of classroom stakeholders
Part 2) Learning to Read/Personalized Learning and Reading – examining how we learn to read, the issues that arise when doing so, and how personalized learning technologies can play a pivotal role
Activity to complete:
c) Complete our survey sharing your opinions on personalized reading technology
Part 3) Existing Reading Technologies – exploring some of the big names on the market
Activity to complete:
d) Share what you would look for in a piece of technology
We’re eager to host you this week and look forward to your contributions. Please remember to also share your thoughts (below) by Sunday to help us fine tune this into a lasting and meaningful OER.
Thanks (and enjoy!),
Aziza, Ram and James
https://personalizedlearning2020.weebly.com/
If any clarification is needed in completing our OER activities, or if you notice an error/issue, please e-mail James at jseaton@wvschools.ca so that it can be addressed/fixed.