Given this, teachers face an extraordinary challenge in being able to individualize for these different learning needs in the conventional classroom structure.
We predicted that just as Netflix helps people find the movies that match their preferences, these exchanges will help people find the tools that help them best learn based on their different learning needs.
Good programs, however, that do customize for these different learning needs and lead to increased student engagement and time on task, should be easier to scale in a digital world as opposed to an analog one.
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Most teachers have a nearly impossible task, as they are told to deliver a curriculum in the course of a year and somehow manage 20 to 30 children, who are all in different places and have different learning needs at different times.
Given that each student has different learning needs at different times and different passions and interests, there is likely no school, no matter how great, that can single-handedly cater to all of these needs just by using its own resources contained within the four walls of its classrooms.
And powering it with digital learning to unleash the power of mass customization to meet different student needs and provide all students anywhere with the opportunities to have a high quality learning experience is absolutely critical to get there.
This requires that the State plays a central role in resource provision and regulation, a commitment by schools to promote collaborative learning and to take into account the specific needs of teachers at different stages in the career path, and the involvement of teacher training institutions.
School of One blows apart that structure (quite literally) by administering a diagnostic assessment to each student, creating an individualized learning plan for each student, and then offering students different ways to learn based on the diagnosis of their distinct needs be that instruction in large or small group clusters or individual online or offline work.
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