Next Practice in Resourcing Personalisation - Tools and Resources

We have also connected with current examples of practice both through literature review and direct engagement with leading practitioners.

Resources

Useful publications on the subject of personalisation and the innovative use of resources.

• NCSL Research Associate Report, Personalising the curriculum at 14-19 (2006)
  
• NCSL Research Associate Summary Report, Personalising the curriculum at 14-19 (2006)
  
• NCSL, Leading Personalised Learning in Schools: Helping individuals grow (2005)
  
• NCSL Research Associate Report, Shape-shifters (2006)
• NCSL Research Associate Report, Lessons in partnership (2006)
  
• Charles Leadbeater, Learning About Personalisation: How can we put the learner at the heart of the education system? (2004)
• Charles Leadbeater, The Shape of Things to Come: Personalised learning through collaboration (2005)
• Demos and Nesta FutureLab, Personalisation and Digital Technologies (2005)
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• The Innovation Unit, A National Conversation about Personalised Learning (2004)
• OECD's Personalising Education (2006)
• Personalised Learning - The Innovation Unit and NCSL booklet

Helpful links

A gateway to sites focused on personalising learning. You can find a range of useful resources such as papers, reports, case-studies and presentations from events.

• DCSF Personalised Learning website
• iNET's Personalising Learning website
• DCSF Building Schools for the Future

Find out about 2020 Vision, the Gilbert Review here. 

Their Space

Their Space: Education for a digital generation draws on qualitative research with children and polling of parents to counter the myths obscuring the true value of digital media. Approaching technology from the perspective of children, it tells positive stories about how they use online space to build relationships and create original content. It argues that the skills children are developing through these activities, such as creativity, communication and collaboration, are those that will enable them to succeed in a globally networked, knowledge-driven economy.

Download the booklet Their Space: Education for a digital generation

The Deeps 

"The concept of personalising learning is founded on the belief that only a fundamentally child-centred approach can ensure genuine equity and excellence in the school system."

Working with schools, Professor David Hargreaves identified and developed nine gateways through which a school may successfully explore personalising learning. His first model was presented in a series of pamphlets and offered schools a guide to developing personalising learning through related gateways.

The original nine gateways have evolved, through debate and discussion with over 250 headteachers, into a second model for the implementation of personalising learning. The nine gateways are now clustered to recognise their interdependence and linkage. In a second series of SSAT pamphlets on personalising learning Professor David Hargreaves examines the deepening of learning, experience, support and leadership in schools. Examples from individual schools show how the themes are applied in practice.

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