Pigeons and Pers

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1. Pigeons and Personalization:
   The Histories of “Personalized
   Learning”
   Audrey Watters
   @audreywatters
   OEB MidSummit 2017
   

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2. The invented history of education
   

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3. There is no agreed-upon definition of “personalized learning”
   

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4. Personalization: The action of making something personal, or
   focused on or concerned with a certain individual or individuals;
   emphasis on or attention to individual persons or personal details
   — The Oxford English Dictionary
   

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6. “Rugged individualism” and American ideology
   

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8. Personalization: A wide variety of organizations use
   personalization to improve customer satisfaction, digital sales
   conversion, marketing results, branding, and improved website
   metrics, as well as for advertising
   — Wikipedia
   

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9. The “personal” computer
   

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10. “Individualization” and “standardization” are intertwined
    

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11. With or without aversive contingencies, it is easy to “lose our
    pigeon” and the student never becomes a reader
    — B. F. Skinner, The Technology of Teaching
    

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