Reclaiming Personalized Learning - by Paul Emerich France (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>"The concept of personalized learning is inherently appealing to most K-12 education stakeholders including educators, parents, and children. In its purest sense, the goal of giving every child precisely what they need in order to learn is also congruent with the goal of educational equity. And yet, despite the ubiquitous use of the term, there is little in the way of a shared understanding of what it actually is. In the words of Eliot Soloway, a professor of Computer Science at the University of Michigan: Everybody's saying they're doing it--but we have to go one level deeper when we say 'personalized learning.' If schools and technology advocates don't set higher standards for what they mean, the movement "will not be sustainable. It will peter out." Some believe that it can be leveraged to promote equity"--<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p><strong>Where exactly did personalized learning go so wrong? <br/> </strong><br/> For teacher and consultant Paul France, at first technology-powered personalized learning seemed like a panacea. But after three years spent at a personalized learning start-up and network of microschools, he soon realized that such corporate-driven individualized learning initiatives do more harm than good, especially among our most vulnerable students. The far-superior alternative? A <em>human-centered</em> pedagogy that prioritizes children over technology. <br/> <br/> First, let's be clear: Reclaiming Personalized Learning is <strong>not </strong>yet-another ed tech book. Instead it's a user's guide to restoring equity and humanity to our classrooms and schools through personalization. One part polemical, eleven parts practical, the book describes how to: </p> <ul> <li>Shape whole-class instruction, leverage small-group interactions, and nurture a student's inner-dialogue</li> <li>Cultivate awareness within and among students, and build autonomy and authority</li> <li> Design curriculum with a flexible frame and where exactly the standards fit </li> <li>Humanize assessment and instruction, including the place of responsive teaching</li> <li>Create a sense of belonging, humanize technology integration, and effect socially just teaching and learning--all central issues in equity </li> </ul> <p>The truth is this: there's no one framework, there's no one tool that makes learning personalized-what personalized learning companies with a vested interest in profits might tempt you to believe. It's people who personalize learning, and <em>people not technology</em> must be at the center of education. The time is now for all of us teachers to reclaim personalized learning, and this all-important book is our very best resource for getting started. <br/> <br/> </p> <em>This is a compelling and critically important book for our time. With rich stories of teaching and learning Paul France considers ways to create the most positive learning experiences possible.</em></p> <strong> - JO BOALER, </strong><strong>Nomellini & Olivier Professor of Education, Stanford Graduate School of Education</strong></p> <em>This brilliant book is a major contribution to the re-imagination of learning and teaching for the twenty-first century and should be essential reading for new and experienced teachers alike.</em></p> <strong>- TONY WAGNER, Senior Research Fellow, </strong><strong>Learning Policy Institute</strong></p> <p><em>In these troubled times, this book is more than a breath of fresh air, it is a call to action. Paul gives us an accessible and sophisticated book that explains how and why we should celebrate the humanity of every single student.</em></p> <strong>- JIM KNIGHT, Senior Partner of the Instructional Coaching Group (ICG) and Author of The Impact Cycle</em></strong></p><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br><em>A compelling and critically important book for our time. Many schools are rushing to offer personalized learning, usually assuming that means individualized learning, with limited evidence for its impact. In this wise book Paul Emerich France considers the nature of powerful personalization. With rich stories of teaching and learning he considers ways to create the most positive learning experiences possible.</em>--Jo Boaler, Professor, Stanford University (7/16/2019 12:00:00 AM)<br><br><em>In these troubled times, this book is more than a breath of fresh air, it is a call to action. Paul gives us an accessible and sophisticated book that explains how and why we should celebrate the humanity of every single student.</em></p>--Jim Knight (7/25/2019 12:00:00 AM)<br><br><em>In this brilliant book by a dedicated practitioner, Paul France makes a powerful case for humanizing the process of personalized learning and shows us how to do it. He describes how real personalization requires a carefully constructed classroom culture, regular dialogue and social interaction, and individual reflection. This book is a major contribution to the reimagination of learning and teaching for the 21st century and should be essential reading for new and experienced teachers alike.</em></p>--Tony Wagner, Senior Research Fellow and Best-Selling Author (6/10/2019 12:00:00 AM)<br><br><em>Personalized learning does not mean simply assigning students piles of independent work. </em>Reclaiming Personalized Learning <em>provides the path for authentic and relevant personalized learning that delivers on the promise of equity. Simply said, students in classrooms where these are implemented will thrive.</em>--Douglas Fisher, Professor (5/17/2019 12:00:00 AM)<br><br><p><em></em>Reclaiming Personalized Learning: A Pedagogy for Restoring Equity and Humanity in our Classrooms <em>is both wise and smart, both visionary and sane. It is both poetic and approachable, both challenging and affirming. Its author is deeply knowledgeable about technology and deeply skeptical of the likelihood that technology-centered pedagogy will better teaching and learning in today's schools. He is wary of adopting personalization as the next new thing, and yet offers a vision of personalization that is restorative.</em></p> <p><em>It has been a long, long time since I have read a book that has challenged me as often or energized me as deeply as this book has. I wish that same experience for legions of other educators who care to create schools and classrooms that make us all more fully human.</em></p>--Carol Ann Tomlinson, Professor (5/13/2019 12:00:00 AM)<br><br><p><em>Beginning 20 years ago, many of us began advocating for personalized learning only to be disappointed by the digital dullness of online worksheets that replaced the printed version. Video playlists were only slightly better. The backlash of interest-based learning created the opposite problem of unstructured unchallenging play.</em></p> <p><em>In his new book, </em>Reclaiming Personalized Learning<em>, Paul France shows us how to create agency and autonomy in the middle ground between authoritarianism and anarchy, both of which act in opposition to personalizing learning. His advice is conceptually sound and practical for all of us still searching for the promise of personalized learning.</em></p>--Tom Vander Ark, CEO (4/12/2019 12:00:00 AM)<br>
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