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Sam Redding
Center on Innovations in Learning
CIL Science of Innovation Institute
June 2017
Relational Suasion
Learning Technology
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◦ A. Techniques (Methods)
◦ B. Tools
Competency-Based Education
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◦ A. Variation in time, place, or pace
◦ B. Student engaged in planning
Personal Competencies
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A. Cognitive
B. Metacognitive
C. Motivational
D. Social/Emotional
Center on Innovations in Learning
www.centeril.org
Think
Small
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The promise of personalized learning excites many educators, and
schools are wondering how best to introduce it and how they know
when they have achieved it.
Rather than thinking of personalized learning as an “it” (i.e., a
program that is either present or not), we might think of it as an
approach to teaching and learning that has many expressions.
Introducing a process of “personalization” may be more feasible
and understandable than a full plunge into “personalized learning,”
by any definition.
The split screen of continuous improvement of the fundamentals
and simultaneous introduction of innovations seems right for most
schools, with some “science” to reduce the risks of misguided
innovation for students while encouraging measured change.
 From Redding, Twyman, & Murphy (2016). Advancing Personalized Learning Through the
Iterative Application of Innovation Science
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1. See each child individually – personalize
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2. See improvement one fundamental step at a time
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3. See innovation as better ways to do small things
 Test and Refine
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“When I was up there, stranded by myself, did I think I
was going to die? Yes. Absolutely, and that’s what you
need to know going in because it’s going to happen to
you. This is space. It does not cooperate. At some point
everything is going to go south on you. Everything is
going to go south and you’re going to say 'This is it.
This is how I end.' Now you can either accept that or
you can get to work. That’s all it is. You just begin. You
do the math, you solve one problem. Then you solve the
next one, and then the next and if you solve enough
problems you get to come home.”
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The whole of personalized learning is a large,
ungainly, and minimally tested concept, so it makes
sense to introduce it through an iterative process of
testing and refining its parts.
This approach accomplishes both an orderly
institution of personalized learning and the
behaviors that, when routinized, bloom as a culture
of innovation.
 From Redding, Twyman, & Murphy (2016). Advancing Personalized Learning Through the
Iterative Application of Innovation Science
Think Small
With Big Hearts
Step by step
In every classroom
Every day
For each child