Preliminary Inquiry question:
All learners come at different academic levels in a classroom setting, so how as educators can we treat, support and respond to them all equally (considering different lesson plans, curricula, technology and personalized learning)?

With the help of last week’s inquiry class, I was able to dive a little deeper into my inquiry question. Jo-Ann Naslund and her resource team provided me with three great (very recent) journal articles that are helping me shape furthermore improve my inquiry question.

One of the articles is by William Watson, Sunnie Watson and Charles Reigeluth, called “Education 3.0: breaking the mold with technology.” This article discusses how “Education needs to move beyond the industrial age approach of treating all learners as if they are the same and adopt a learner-centered model of education suitable for the information age” (p. 332). In order to meet the needs of all learners, education must implement new and transformative technology as well as take on PIES (personalized integrated education system) so that the growing generations are able to learn in schools where they “support moving student learning beyond the fuzzy nature of whole course curricula and into specific, demonstrated mastery of skills and knowledge, customized, flexible and learner-driven learning processes, and a paradigm that focuses on individual learning rather than grouping and sorting students” (p. 341).

This particular article really touches on integrating technology and embracing personalized learning to further student learning and preparing them for the evolving world. This article not only highlights our cohort’s specialization, it also speaks volumes on my inquiry question.

Watson, W. R., Watson, S. L., & Reigeluth, C. M. (2015). Education 3.0: breaking the mold with technology. Interactive Learning Environments, 23(3), 332-343. doi: 10.1080/10494820.2013.764322