Personalized learning is a path in education that takes into account the specific strengths, interests and needs of each student and creates a unique learning experience based on those individual traits. Students and educators work together to create customized learning plans for the classroom.
Last week, Sammy the bear helped my students practice their prepositional phrases. My students took turns hiding Sammy behind, under, in, and on various items in the classroom. Using a free text to speech app, Sammy would call out “Hey, where am I?” When found, my students would use our “location words” to describe where Sammy was hidden. Once a student correctly identified the location, he/she would give him a hug and Sammy would say, “I love you,!” They were so motivated, and Sammy got a lot of hugs!
Using our Bluebee Pal has helped me to personalize my student’s learning! I have students with autism that find it difficult to attend to their peers in conversation.