ICTs and personalisation in learning disability communities

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ICTs and personalisation in learning disability
communities

• Dr Helen Kennedy

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Issues and Obstacles

• resourcing
• expectations
• issues relating to LE content
• the accountability culture of education
• and different understandings of what it means to
  do personalization.

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Policy literature

• Demos published Personalisation through
  participation a new script for public services,
• DfES Innovation Units Learning about
  personalisation how can we put the learner at
  the heart of the education system
• the ipprs Personalized Learning an emperors
  outfit?
• Edexcel (one of the UKs qualifications
  councils) entitled Personalised Learning just
  what is it?

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• personalized learning is careful attention to
  individual learning styles, motivations, and
  needs in a system characterised by High
  expectation of every child, given practical form
  by high quality teaching based on a sound
  knowledge and understanding of each childs
  needs (Milliband 2004).

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ICTs and personalised learning

• identify appropriate content resources which can
  be modified, used and re-used
• present a range of interfaces to learners
• provide effective and adaptive assessment and
  reporting tools.

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Conclusions

• Gap between the potential for personalisation
  the actual
• Policy makers
• ICT training strategy
• Awareness of impact of accountability culture
• Awareness of social complexity of educational
  environments

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• I quite like the word personal (laughs). And
  really, thats the common thing, its about
  working with individuals and recognising their
  diversity and their complex individual needs and
  requirements and trying to match to that. . Its
  like, lets treat people as people, thats a good
  idea.