At a recent conference, Bena Kallick demonstrated this truth to be evident in the room of 80 or so educators.  A thundering silence followed the question, "How do individualization and differentiation differ from personalized learning?" Can you answer this question?  If you answer it to yourself, how do you know you are right? If you ask one other person, how do you know you are both correct? If you research it on the web, how do you know your source is correct? These are the questions that have to become central to our work and communication about it. Certainty is no longer an easy place to arrive. It is an uncomfortable place for some, but if we are to teach children how to be successful in this complicated world, we must, ourselves, become insistently curious.  Read more...