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Personalized Learning One of the key takeaways from the learning module was the distinction between personalized learning and traditional education. Personalized learning focuses on allowing students to move at their own pace, as emphasized in the Khan Academy model. Still, it sometimes fails to promote essential skills like collaboration, communication, and creativity (Borup, n.d.). While mastery-based learning ensures that students fully grasp a concept before moving on, it can limit opportunities for peer interaction. This raises a concern about how effectively these approaches can nurture broader competencies, such as teamwork and problem-solving in group settings, which are just as important as individual mastery. Personalizing learning short from  Jered Borup s' YouTube channel Reflecting on what I’ve learned, I appreciate the benefits of personalized learning but see the value in a hybrid approach that balances self-paced learning with mentor-led, collaborative activities. ...

  Education is Changing As a teacher in Saudi Arabia, I'm always interested in how teaching methods are changing as a reflection on the new articles that I read talk about how our schools need to update their methods to better fit today's world. The story in The Saber-Tooth Curriculum by Peddiwell (1939) shows that schools should change as society changes. This idea is also discussed in the RSA ANIMATE video on changing education paradigms (RSA ANIMATE, n.d.). This video says that our old school systems don't meet the needs of our fast-changing world. This is something I've seen in Saudi Arabia too, where there is a big push to make education better fit the needs of today's job market. Finn and Fairchild (2012) in Education Reform for the Digital Era talk about how important digital learning is. They say we need to change how schools are managed and funded to really use digital learning well. This is a big topic in Saudi Arabia as we try to use more technology in ou...