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My Experiences With Personalized Learning

By: Calvin Choo School: Roosevelt Middle

What I Think Personalized Learning Is

I think that personalized learning is where everyone can learn at their own speed. Everyone is different and unique in many ways and learning is only one of those things. Many aspects of learning will be fine tuned to your style and way to help you improve the most. Whether it be a professor teaching you in a room or a pre-recorded voice teaching you on a computer. We have stuck to such a

• ne-sided learning system for so long. Students left behind because they are unable to understand

the concept fully, and students who are exceptional become bored of the constant review of the same topic. Technology is advancing so our classrooms should be too. We need to use that technology and help everyone be their best. People who are bright can go through the roof and people who take it slow can keep at their pace. With that said, there are still problems we need to

• vercome. Not everyone can afford it, nor is it perfect. With time, learning can become fun for

everyone, not a burden they have to deal with.

TTO: Teach To One Homepage

This is the TTO

• homepage. It shows

almost everything you need to know. You can have 1 of many

• modalities. For example,

VI (Virtual Instruction), VR

How you will learn (Modality) Where you go Target points Where the points are from Lost your homework? Click to view it What you will learn

(Virtual Reinforcement), LIN (Live INvestigation), SGC (Small Group Collaboration), and P2P (Peer 2 Peer).

TTO (Teach To One) - The Beginning

When my brother was in Roosevelt in the 6th grade, he was placed into an advanced math class. When I heard that I thought,” Wow, I hope I'm smart enough to get into one of those.” A year later, it was my time to be in 6th grade, it didn't exist anymore. We had something called flex time near the end of every school day. It was kind of like extracurricular activities. Back then, if you took an after school program called EBAYC, you automatically got put into TTO as flex. When I first heard of it, I thought,”That must be horrible. Flex is supposed to be a time to have fun not to learn about math.” Although I didn’t hate math, I still thought that it was a weird thing to do, even when I spent most of my time being bored in math class because we did mostly review and I barely learned anything new. I didn’t know how TTO worked in 6th grade.

Math

TTO - My Experiences

Next thing I know in 7th grade we all are doing TTO. When I first saw it, I was really confused as I never knew how it worked before. As days go by, I was absolutely in love with it. It taught me things I would never learn in a normal math class. As I looked around, I could see people of all different skill levels. In TTO, you could be put in one of many modalities like VI (Virtual Instruction), VR (Virtual Reinforcement), LIN (Live INvestigation), SGC (Small Group Collaboration), and/or P2P (Peer 2 Peer). Every round, we have a Task. People in the same task will all learn about the same stuff. Tasks are usually at your level of learning or lower. At the end of the period, you take an Exit slip to see how much you actually learned from the session. At the end of every round, we do a playlist demo. It is basically a longer exit slip that sees how much you remember from all the skills in your playlist.

TTO - Experiences Continued

Now in 8th grade, I was no longer the bored smarty pants I was back then. I was now learning new things everyday, and improving faster than ever. I'm also learning about more complicated stuff. I was put in a task that was learning about slope of a line. It was very easy. Later, I learned about quadratics and it’s different

• forms. A bit more challenging but still pretty easy. Most of the things I was learning were above grade level.

This allowed me to know where I’m at in terms of grade level. TTO may be great, but it doesn’t work alone. I like that about it because it shows us lectures from these cool websites that we could use in our own time. I mostly get VI (Virtual Instruction) or VR (Virtual Reinforcement) as my modality, I watch a video and it explains the topic to me clearly. Then it gives me some practice problems to make sure I understand. In my

• pinion, it is the best modality because I get to learn by myself and it’s easy.

TTO - Improvements

Nothing is perfect, that includes TTO. It may be great and all, but it’s expensive. Not to mention all the chromebooks and teachers. I have experienced some pretty annoying things from TTO. Sometimes the algorithm isn’t correct and gives you Exit slip questions that aren’t related to what you learned in your session or you never learned about. Sometimes there is barely any notes to take in your session. If you have very little notes, you will get a bad grade. Task is a modality that everyone

• takes. It’s similar to LIN (Live INvestigation) but you have it everyday for a couple of weeks. It is a

review of learned topics. I feel that it is useless. It isn’t needed. This is what I wanted to avoid. Another thing is the TTO sessions don't last long and sometimes my VI or VR has 4 or 5 parts to it and I couldn't finish it all. I didn't have to finish them all, but I might miss something if I don't.

TTO - Conclusion

In conclusion, TTO is a great example of personalized learning. I benefit from it by being able to learn a lot more than I would have in a normal classroom. It is always giving me new challenges to

• vercome. I am always wondering what I will learn today or tomorrow. It means a lot to me to have

Teach To One in math. It keeps me excited to learn because I’m not always doing the same math subject everyday. Unfortunately, it has it’s problems, but hopefully they will improve the algorithm and fix the minor bugs. Then it can be even better for students. Overall, I’m glad I have the chance to use TTO.

Thanks for watching!