Students have returned to take over the , and this time, when talking about personalized learning, they’re talking about equity.
Remaking Tomorrow typically features interviews between hosts and and leading thinkers, practitioners and experts navigating the future of learning. For the next several weeks, the podcast is being handed over to those most closely engaged with the learning: students. The conversations highlight thoughts that learners have on personalized and equitable learning. They define these terms and also provide examples of how their experiences have been personalized and equitable or not. The students also provide advice and suggestions for systems and educators in order to make a more promising future for every learner.
They were not very accommodating in dealing with kids who had been through traumatic experiences and who were trying to learn how to be people, let alone having to learn and grow as an individual. I got bulldozed by the system and lost within it.
Personalized learning needs to take into account the strengths, and interests, and passions of students and adjust to their learning needs to help them succeed.
When you’re in a class and you feel like you’re an outlier, it really makes you afraid to do anything in that class or to be active in that class.
College isn’t for everybody. Trade school isn’t for everybody. So, there are different ways that you can go about making a living now, how you choose to live your life. I feel like if we have more conversations, that would help a lot. Just so we get that personalized learning.
It’s about being more mindful of who you’re talking to. Some people are ahead of others and some people are below. I feel like we shouldn’t be making fun of other people for being lower.
There’s an obvious difference in equality for different schools, but I also think it’s a big part of the state of mind of students. When they come to school, they either feel like it’s a punishment or it’s an opportunity. Schools need to make it more apparent that it’s an opportunity and an advantage to go to school and learn something new.
While producers from , and ¿ì²¥ÊÓƵ supported these new podcast hosts through technical assistance, background research and stipends, the students are very much in charge of the topics and interviews, which has led to great results. Starting on May 5, 2022, and continuing for five more episodes over the course of a month, students are discussing the issues of equity in education.
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