While we hear the words personalized learning tossed around quite often today, it seems that everyone has a different understanding of what this means for learners. For schools to truly hit the mark on this, we need to also ensure that we are personalizing learning opportunities for adult learners (staff). This session will discuss some of the concrete ways that schools are personalizing learning for all learners.
We hear a lot in the news about “fake news,” but that term, which was coined fairly recently, is really a symptom of some much larger problems, including the lack of media literacy in a digital age where information is instant. In fact, Stanford Graduate School of Education recently found that more than 80% of middle and high school students were unable to distinguish between advertisements and real news stories. As parents and educators, it’s our job to help our learners become more savvy consumers of information.
