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RE: Curating the Internet: Science and technology digest for November 10, 2019
Fortunately personalized learning has always been available to folks that homeschool. I shudder to think what government indoctrinations will eventually get around to using modern technology to do. Homeschooling was easy. My kids were information sponges, and still are, having loved learning the things they wanted to know.
Odd that government schools have the opposite effect.
Thanks!
When I was in elementary school, we had something called an "Individualized Learning System" (or something like that), where the kids in my class all covered the material semi-independently at our own speeds. It seemed like it worked pretty well, but it disappeared when we got to middle school, and I think it was entirely discontinued in the school district shortly after that. Coincidentally, or not, my grades went from straight-As to barely passing after elementary school. I hope the essay is right, and we see a technology-driven return to that style of learning.