Use Tech Tools to Personalize Learning

NOTE: This strategy is part of the self-paced Customize the Learning Experience Course

Provide personalized instruction that meets each student where they are and provides them voice and choice. When tech tools are leveraged to provide learning materials for students to work through at their own pace, the educator has time for teacher-student collaboration and 1:1/small group support. In addition, tech tools can provide meaningful choices for learners in how they demonstrate their learning or go about learning something in the first place. Tech tools can also be used to provide more personalized feedback and support throughout the learning experience. Strategies include flipping the classroom, making the live lesson interactive, leveraging adaptive or AI tools to ensure the content or feedback is tailored to each students’ needs or providing tech tool options to learners to help them share their learning in authentic and meaningful ways.

Bright Spots

Gain inspiration from authentic examples of this strategy shared by teachers who have used them with their learners.

Creating your own Bright Spots? Let’s get them out into the world! Share yours here.

Leverage AI Tools

Leverage AI tools like ChatGPT to personalize prompts, passages, etc based on your students and their interests.

Leverage AI Tools

Students create “Fliptoks” – TikTok-style videos in Flip to share the three lessons they learned from the novel they chose to read.

Use Customized AI ChatBots to Support Learners

Use Playlab.ai to build your own chatbot, like the writing tutor in the video, to support learners customized to the needs of your learning environment.

Instructional Videos

Students at VIDA experience flipped instruction. In small groups, learners watch an engineering video as direct instruction to guide their collaborative group work in class.

Virtual Reality Art

Learners at VIDA utilize VR to design and create NFTs out of their own art.

Build Self-Paced Lessons with AI

Personalized learning method where learners go through self-paced video lessons and milestone checkpoints to demonstrate proficiency before moving on, partnered with TeachFlows to support educators in quickly creating self-paced lessons aligned with the approach.

Resources

Inspired? Use the resources below to bring this learner-centered strategy to your learning community.

🧰 Create your own video lessons to flip instruction:  Edpuzzle or Powtoon
🧰 Check out Peardeck or Nearpod to pose quick formative questions, take live polls, and collect voice from all students
📖 6 Ways to Jam on Jamboard: Using the Digital Whiteboard in a Hybrid Classroom
🧰 Check out pre-built templates 
📖  Explore the ULTIMATE Google Slides teacher resource
🧰 Find adaptive online experiences: Khan Academy or IXL
🧰 Leverage ChatGPT or other AI tools to personalize content based on students interests; check out our mini course on AI in Education
🧰 Learn how to assign FlipToks + a template created by Holly Clark for learner drafting

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