Is “Personalized Learning” Just Another Big Tech Con?

Advocates of personalized learning say that the approach has beenunfairly conflated with teacherless, online-only education. They invokeDewey and Freire and Montessori as guiding lights and take pains toemphasize, in almost liturgical unison, that personalized learning isnot about tech—and that “tech is just a tool.” But skeptics warn thatunderneath the language of “student-centered” pedagogy is atech-intensive model that undermines communal values, acceleratespriva