Battling over the Meaning of “Personalization” – EdTech Researcher

Personalization is a new front in a century old war, between Thorndike and Dewey, between instructionism and constructivism. Thorndike was an advocate of an education science driven by objective measurement; Dewey was an advocate of making schools look like life, even if the results were harder to measure.

via Battling over the Meaning of “Personalization” – EdTech Researcher – Education Week.

I’ve been thinking about this stuff a lot recently. I think it’s not an understatement to say that the question at the end of this blogpost by Justin Reich is probably the most important question we have before us as an educational community.