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- Explore how students are disrupting education by using digital resources to support self-direct learning Free Agent Learning: Leveraging Students' Self-Directed Learning to Transform K-12 Education explores an emerging cohort of students that are self-directing their learning around interest-driven topics, the tools they're using to scaffold these experiences, and their motivations for these out-of-school learning behaviors.
- About the Author: JULIE A. EVANS, Ed.D., is CEO of Project Tomorrow and founder and chief researcher of the Speak Up Research Project.
- 352 Pages
- Education, Administration
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About the Book
"The free agent learner uses digital tools, resources, and content outside of school to self-direct learning around areas of academic passion or personal curiosity. These activities align with the identifying characteristics of self-determination theory (autonomy, competence and relatedness) and demonstrate a purposeful reason for the self-directed actions"--Book Synopsis
Explore how students are disrupting education by using digital resources to support self-direct learningFree Agent Learning: Leveraging Students' Self-Directed Learning to Transform K-12 Education explores an emerging cohort of students that are self-directing their learning around interest-driven topics, the tools they're using to scaffold these experiences, and their motivations for these out-of-school learning behaviors. Readers will find new insights and frameworks for effectively leveraging the lived experiences of their students and transforming their schools' cultures, norms and practices.
In this book, readers will learn how education leaders can translate a newly emerged understanding about students' self-directed learning into actionable knowledge to improve teaching and learning Free Agent Learners also offers:
- Info dispelling the myth that real learning only happens in a classroom
- Discussions of how modern students are using digital tools, content, and resources for purposeful learning outside of teacher direction or sponsorship
- Actionable tips and accessible strategies for the use of the Free Agent Learner Ecosystem to support school improvement
Perfect for K-12 school and district administrators and decision-makers, Free Agent Learners is an eye-opening read for anyone involved in the education of primary and secondary school students.
From the Back Cover
Transform your in-class and out-of-class teaching strategies with disruptive digital technologies.
Free Agent Learning: Leveraging Students' Self-Directed Learning to Transform K-12 Education presents a revolutionary new way to engage with students by relying on technologies they already use every day. Drawing on seventeen years of original research, expert education researcher Dr. Julie A. Evans describes the tools that K-12 students use for day-to-day self-directed learning and the motivations that drive them to engage with educational material. She goes on to explain actionable tips and strategies for transforming your school and classrooms to incorporate the new educational opportunities available today.
The book contains new insights and frameworks designed to effectively leverage the lived experiences of your students and create a social, untethered, and relevant experience that is more inclusive, equitable, and meaningful for everyone.
Free Agent Learning is a can't-miss resource for public, private, parochial, and charter school leaders seeking to meet the challenges of improving student learning outcomes, addressing achievement gaps, and changing school cultures to support education transformations. It will also interest teacher educators, university faculty, and postsecondary students of education.
"Free Agent Learning explores how students might become co-designers and stewards of learning experiences that extend beyond school walls and receive credit for anytime, anywhere, passion-driven learning. Evans explains how having a meaningful choice in the path and pace of the learning process is important to students based on Speak Up data from surveying students since 2004. She lifts up a fundamental principle--a majority of students want to be in control of when and how they learn. An important consideration is how education systems will need to evolve to shift power to the learner, in hopes students can build agency over the path and pace of their learning with a focus on purpose and student goals, and underscores how advanced digital learning can support this vision."
--SUSAN PATRICK, President and CEO, Aurora Institute
About the Author
JULIE A. EVANS, Ed.D., is CEO of Project Tomorrow and founder and chief researcher of the Speak Up Research Project. Her specialty is in the impact of innovative learning models and interventions in K-12 and higher education. Dr. Evans is a highly sought after speaker and writer on the views of students, parents, and educators about key education issues today, notably around digital learning.