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Push for 'personalised' learning

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Jax Blunt
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Prime Minister Tony Blair has called for “truly personalised” services with people given the information and power needed to choose a school or hospital.

(Read it at the bbc)

Hm.

Giving you a choice between a whole load of very similar things doesn’t strike me as the way to provide a personalised service to anyone. Allowing ppl to do it their own way, like supporting non mainstream small schools, learning services, parent cooperatives and home educators, now that would be a personalised service.

But it wouldn’t provide drones for our consumerist society, would it? Wonder if that has anything to do with anything?

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2 responses to “Push for 'personalised' learning”

  1. t-bird avatar
    t-bird

    you know, I had to read that article twice before I realised that it had nothing to do with choices and a lot to do with electioneering, I kept thinking it was just me not reading it right…. And what exactly was new with most of it???? it all sounded like everything I’ve heard/read for the last few years. Sigh.

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  2. Gill avatar
    Gill

    I can’t see how they could provide a truly personalised service even if they wanted to. Huge institutions don’t work that way, do they? They have to work on systems, and systems are the direct opposite to personalisation.

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