Ten Trends 2014: Agency

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Derek Wenmoth provides an explanation of learner agency. Derek describes three features: the initiative or self-regulation of the learner, the way agency mediates and is mediated by the sociocultural context of the classroom, and social connectedness - an awareness of the responsibility of one's own actions on others.

Impactful Innovation and Student Agency

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Chicago-based digital learning coordinator, Jennie Magiera, talks about meaningful change - not change for the sake of change, but transformation that is focused on improving learning and experiences for students. Jennie emphasises the need to reinstate curiosity, scaffold the release of responsibility to our students, show them how to follow their passion and the importance of resilience.

Student Agency - Sparking Curiosity

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Stepahine Kitto, CORE Education eFellow, talks about investigating curiosity in the Junior school - how to encourage and utlilise curiosity as a starting point for further learning - and discusses some strategies used to engage children's thinking and questioning.