Blended or Personalized?

Students watch a video explaining "when to use commas" at home and then come to school, where they work through a task. The majority of students work independently on the task while the teacher reviews the skills necessary to understand this task with a small group.

• Blended learning

• Personalized learning

• Both

• Neither

Students use Chromebooks to work individually through a teacher's slides to learn a lesson while the teacher works on creating the next day's slides at the front of the room.

• Blended learning

• Personalized learning

• Both

• Neither

Students choose from a list of learning resources that include videos, texts, and simulations to master content so that they can pass a quiz testing their knowledge of tier 3 vocabulary.

• Blended learning

• Personalized learning

• Both

• Neither

Twenty students in a class are working on adaptive software at their own level. Meanwhile, the teacher is working with six other students who are all struggle with the same concept.

• Blended learning

• Personalized learning

• Both

• Neither

Students spend their class time moving between the same three stations for all groups. At the first station they learn about similes with a teacher, at the second station they submit five examples of similes using Google Docs, and at the third station they read independently.

• Blended learning

• Personalized learning

• Both

• Neither

Teachers and students work together to create individualized learning plans based on students' needs, interest, and goals.

• Blended learning

• Personalized learning

• Both

• Neither

A teacher shows an online video in class during a whole group lesson to help illustrate a point.

• Blended learning

• Personalized learning

• Both

• Neither

A student learns a lesson with his teacher for part of the learning block and then rotates to a technology station where he and his peers work on an adaptive software program and practice the skills they just learned.

• Blended learning

• Personalized learning

• Both

• Neither