If you wonder why I am at such pains to distinguish between personal and personalized learning, this should give you a sense of it. Here's Audrey Watters: "'Individualized learning,' particularly when enacted through technologies that defy scrutiny and accountability through algorithmic decision-making, echo the legacy of 'separate but equal.' ... through the establishment of a hierarchy based on 'ability,' often determined by standardized testing - a way to avoid saying 'IQ' perhaps while continuing to practice ranking based on 'intelligence.'" That sort of Platonic predetermination of one's role in society has never appealed to me, though it has resonated with authoritarians through history. Opposed to it directly is an account of agency (part one, part two) and personal learning, which is what I'm all about in these pages.
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