One-On-One Classroom Teaching?

Differentiated instruction in the classroom environment is an oxymoron. How can it be possible to authentically meet individual learning needs in a classroom full of different academic levels and experiences?

This is about to change. Education ecology will be going through very powerful changes in the next decade. Not just from the emergence of technology in the classroom, but much more fundamental than that. The most far-reaching change in education will be choice. This is the real power of the internet. And it will rock the very foundation of education just as it has altered the core of other long-standing institutions.

Already students are able to make choices for education beyond what is offered by traditional educational institutions. But choice brings something else with it, discrimination. Just as a music buyer can now buy the one music track they really want online instead of a whole CD of tunes that the record company wants them to buy, the student of the future will be able to choose the educational experience that truly meets their needs rather than what a school or teacher tells them they need. Educational content is going to move out of the exclusive control of the educational institution.

Our response as educators seems to be clear. We need to lead by creating instructional content for the internet that is dramatically superior to what currently exists and what's available in most classroom learning experiences. This is the challenge. Are you up to it?