RLSD Personalized Digital Learning Initiative

Goals

1. Enhance, expand, and accelerate learning.  Digital technology allows students to interact with the world in ways that traditional textbooks and curriculum alone cannot.  It also allows students to learn 24/7 (anytime, anywhere).


2. Provide personalized instruction.  Blended learning, digital textbooks, curriculum materials, and apps that allow students to progress at a rate suited to their personal abilities and provide students with a variety of instructional tools allowing the student to learn in a way that best meets their individualized needs.


3. Improve student collaboration and engagement.  Digital collaboration tools help students easily share information and ideas with their peers.  Research shows students are more engaged in learning, and sharing what they have learned, when they are given the opportunity to demonstrate their knowledge using creative and collaborative apps.  Research also indicates that students, in a virtual environment, collaborate more frequently and with a more diverse set of peers than in a standard classroom.