The Messy Reality of Personalized Learning
I&#x27;m 100% for using data to help personalize learning but I strongly believe using a computer for even half of the learning leads to large negative results in social skills &amp; physical health.<p>Instead of using the tech start up mentality, I think a lot more benefit could be done by helping teachers build relationships with there students &amp; having open dialogue on what they like &amp; what they don&#x27;t. I get that this means throwing more money at lower teacher&#x2F;student ratios which is hard to do but I think it would have a greater impact than tech. I say this as someone whose life &amp; thoughts towards learning did a 180 once they were introduced to the internet &amp; computers in the 90s.<p>Yes, computers can change the lesson plan &amp; personalize per student faster &amp; better than a teacher. But at what cost?<p>While multiple techniques exists, are there that many that a teacher can&#x27;t try multiple out on there students and record how they respond? I feel if we had reasonable classroom sizes of 10:1 this would be fairly easy to do.<p>I also feel we could cut down the amount of info we jam into students heads &amp; focus on learning the more important concepts. I believe Bill Gates &amp; many others have started preaching this as well.<p>You don&#x27;t need to learn everything but there are some core skills that we don&#x27;t spend enough time on that will benefit us much longer.