Plenary with Paul Driver: Designing for agency in the digital classroom
In this session we will explore the fundamental role of agency in learning and teaching. Drawing on both theory and practical examples, I will describe how pedagogy, assessment for learning, design and technology can become drivers and facilitators of teacher and learner agency. We will weigh the advantages and drawbacks of real-time versus asynchronous activities, discuss digital tools, and consider the changing role of the teacher. I will conclude with some tips and suggestions for designing opportunities for agency in your teaching practice.
Choose the session that is right for you:
Primary with Terrie Craddock: Allow learners to be children
Secondary with Ed Dudley: Rolling with it: promoting learner agency with teenage students
Adult with Nick Thorner: Learner Agency: Making learners feel empowered
Agenda
17:00 BST Plenary with Paul Driver: Designing for agency in the digital classroom
18:10 BST Primary with Terrie Craddock: Allow learners to be children
18:10 BST Secondary with Ed Dudley: Rolling with it: promoting learner agency with teenage students
18:10 BST Adult with Nick Thorner: Learner Agency: Making learners feel empowered
Paul is a Senior Learning Technologist at Anglia Ruskin University. He specialises in immersive virtual reality scenario creation and holds an M.A. in Creative Media Practice in Education. He has 25 years of language teaching experience and is an...
Terrie Craddock has been a teacher trainer, academic manager and English language teacher for over 20 years, all around the world.
Terrie has written and delivered many teacher training workshops both online and face to face. Her training focuses...
Ed Dudley is a teacher trainer and materials writer. He is the co-author of Mixed-Ability Teaching (OUP, 2016), the author of ETpedia Teenagers (Pavilion Publishing, 2018), and he has also contributed materials to OUP textbooks and training courses.
Nick Thorner is a teacher and author based at Kings Education in Oxford. He has engaged in teaching and teacher training in a variety of international contexts, particularly Italy, and has many years' experience preparing students from around the...