Tom Vander Ark: Personal Digital Learning is Changing the World

About a decade ago, the launch of Wikipedia was symbolic of an important threshold in human history -- anyone with a broadband connection could learn almost anything for free or cheap.
This year inexpensive tablet computers and free resources like Khan Academy are extending the learning revolution. The teachers and students that grew up as digital natives are bringing new tools to school. The promise of personal digital learning is finally rippling through educational institutions of developed economies and creating new opportunities for getting smart in emerging economies. The outcome will be more students in the U.S. will be prepared for college and careers and more young people in developing economies will
connect to the idea economy.
Personal digital learning is providing three primary benefits, as outlined in my new book, Getting Smart: How Digital Learning is Changing the World.
Click here to learn more about my new book and to find out why I believe the first benefit of this changing world is is customized learning.

Guest Commentary: Forbes Columnist Asks 'Is Personalized Learning Another Education Fad ...?"

Writing for Forbes.com's "Human Ingenuity" column, Adam Garry launches a multi-part series by asking if personalized learning is another education fad, or " can it really happen in our schools."
He summarizes the personalized learning movement as "an approach that will help define a system that assumes that we can use technology and human capacity to figure out what students need to learn and what they want to learn and expose them to opportunities 24/7 formally and informally. So how does this help us transform our education institutions?"
Click here to read his entire blog post and stay tuned for his complete series.