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Given the diversity of modern learners, personalized learning and individualized
instruction are increasingly important.
Use the prompts to guide an original response:
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In what ways are you diverse as a learner?
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Provide 1-2 examples from your experience of times when learning was
personalized, and instruction was individualized to meet your diverse needs.
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Was technology a part of the personalization and individualization? If so, how? If not,
how could technology have been integrated?
Comment on the posts of at least two peers. APA citations are required only in the original post.
When I was in middle to high school, I didn’t understand why learning for myself was easy in
some ways but excruciatingly difficult in others. I would excel in language learning classes,
where most of the content involved having conversations orally and memorizing things like
verb/vocab meaning and conjugation rules and charts. But when it came to reading and math
especially, I struggled, and did not receive any testing or services to identify why it is that I was
struggling. As an adult, I discovered that I have not only ADHD but dyslexia/dyscalculia to go
along with English being my third language. All this accumulated into a very clear reason as to
why I was deemed “unteachable” by my math teachers and why I was deemed “lazy” for not
being able to read a book at the same pace as others.
I don’t have many experiences where my needs as a learner were taken into
consideration, but I recall in High School staying after school with my math teacher. I worked
with her individually in what nowadays would be a separate class called “math support”, and I
worked on improving my abilities in math. She found that my issues lied in the fact that I knew
how to do the steps to completing an equation, but I could not do mental math and what's
worse, is I kept mixing up numbers that I wrote, so my result was wrong. She would let me work
on assignments and tests with her after, reading out the information and checking ever so often
and pointing out where I had mixed up numbers, such as a 7 into a 4. This helped me enough to
pass pre-calc (which my guidance counselor really shouldn’t have put me in), and learn that
small bit about my learning style.
Technology was not part of this process but I believe if in 2011, if we had testing like I-
Ready available, my diverse learning needs would have been found sooner and I would have
been able to get help sooner. My teachers would have been able to see the data in this test and
see where my deficiencies were to then better aid in my growth by having me complete I-Ready
supplementary weekly assessments, as students do now.
YouTube. (2016).
What Is Personalized Learning?
YouTube
. Retrieved November 4, 2022,
from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6oLNLCO0vfI.
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