{"id":1025,"date":"2006-11-17T14:14:11","date_gmt":"2006-11-17T14:14:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/more-fuel-self-directed-and-customized-learning\/"},"modified":"2026-11-11T22:04:58","modified_gmt":"2026-11-12T03:04:58","slug":"more-fuel-self-directed-and-customized-learning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/more-fuel-self-directed-and-customized-learning\/","title":{"rendered":"More Fuel: Self-Directed and Customized Learning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I made a big <span>omission<\/span> earlier this week in my post about the <span>blogs<\/span> I <span>regularly<\/span> read. I forgot to mention <a href=\"http:\/\/thinklab.typepad.com\/\">Christian Long&#39;s blog Think:Lab<\/a>. So often, I share common <span>curiosity<\/span> with the topics he covers in his blog. Today, his post <a href=\"http:\/\/thinklab.typepad.com\/think_lab\/2006\/11\/a_school_by_any.html\">&quot;A school by any other name&quot;<\/a> sparked something in me. I have been thinking a lot about learning and instruction topics that dance around his central self-directed and customized learning themes. His post and the linked <a href=\"http:\/\/www.teachermagazine.org\/tm\/articles\/2006\/12\/01\/03northstar.h18.html?clean=true\">Teacher <span>Magazine<\/span> article &quot;Don&#39;t Call It School&quot;<\/a> raises a lot of questions for me (the fuel to my own learning fire), but I can&#39;t add much in the way of <span>commentary<\/span>. I&#39;ve been living in that frustrating <span>realm<\/span> for awhile now &#8211;  the &quot;there is something here, I just can&#39;t articulate it&quot; <span>realm<\/span>. What is good is that <span>realm<\/span> usually leads to some degree of personal learning and awakening, so I&#39;ll just relax and live here awhile longer &#8230;<br \/> <!-- technorati tags begin --><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 10px; text-align: right\">technorati tags:<a rel=\"tag\" href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/learning\">learning<\/a><\/p>\n<p><!-- technorati tags end --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I made a big omission earlier this week in my post about the blogs I regularly read. I forgot to mention Christian Long&#39;s blog Think:Lab. So often, I share common curiosity with the topics he covers in his blog. Today, his post &quot;A school by any other name&quot; sparked something in me. I have been&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[194,245],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1025","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-design","category-learning"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1025","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1025"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1025\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3104,"href":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1025\/revisions\/3104"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1025"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}