Learning with Technology: Learner Voice and Agency

This chapter discusses one of the research perspectives of the Learning Sciences and Technologies academic group in the National Institute of Education (Singapore). Premised on social constructivists’ view of learning, we explore design for learner agency and voice by adopting design experiment approach to study knowledge building and distributing the power of design decisions to the learners. We illustrate our efforts with vignettes of two of our research studies: one that demonstrates the importance of students’ agency in knowledge construction and another that incorporates the diverse voices of stakeholders, including students, in developing a game for learning Earth system science.

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