Digital Agency: Learners Who Choose Technology Well
Help learners develop the judgement to choose technologies purposefully, explain their choices and adapt when a digital approach is not helping.
- Agency is more than choosing an app — Meaningful digital agency involves decisions that affect how learning happens.
- Teach criteria for choosing technology — Learners need a way to judge options beyond familiarity or novelty.
- Teach learners to adapt when technology fails — Digital agency includes troubleshooting, switching strategy and knowing when to seek help.
- Include attention, privacy and wellbeing in digital choice — A purposeful tool choice considers what the technology asks of the learner beyond the task.
- Make learners explain whether their technology choice worked — Reflection turns one successful tool choice into transferable digital judgement.