Amplify Student Agency: 3 Tools for Empowering Learners’ Voices and Choices

Amplify Student Agency: 3 Tools for Empowering Learners’ Voices and Choices

Wednesday, July 2, 2025 ⬥ 10:00 – 11:00 AM
Presented by Melissa Henning

Session Description:

Empower learners to drive their own education. Discover cutting-edge strategies to foster student choice, spark creativity, and cultivate critical thinking. Learn to craft compelling projects that connect curricula to real-world challenges. Join us to learn about tools to help unleash the full potential of student-led learning.

Download a PDF copy of the slides here.

Resource Materials:

In this Resource Materials section, you will find reference materials, tutorials, and how-to information that will help you review or extend your knowledge from the presentation.

Collections from TeachersFirst

• • Podcast Creators (Special Topic Collection)
  • Project-Based Learning (Special Topic Collection)
  • Problem-Based Learning (Special Topic Collection)
  • Tools to Create Media (Special Topic Collection)
  • Tools to Create Audio Projects (Edge Topic)
  • Tools to Create Blogs (Edge Topic)
  • Tools for Digital Designs (Edge Topic)
  • Tools to Create Timelines (Edge Topic)
  • Tools to Create Digital Stories (Edge Topic)
  • Tools to Create Presentations (Edge Topic)

Resources to Explore (Session 1)

• • Telegra.ph (TeachersFirst Review) – Blog creating tool
  • Just Paste It (TeachersFirst Review) – Blog creating tool
  • Write Reader (TeachersFirst Review) – Tools for digital writing and storytelling
  • Adobe Podcast (TeachersFirst Review) 
  • Adobe Express Free Video Maker (TeachersFirst Review)  
  • Padlet (TeachersFirst Review) – Respond with video, image, audio, screen recording, and more

Resource to Explore (Session 2)

• Magic School (TeachersFirst Review) – Create a choice board
• Genially (TeachersFirst Review) – Create games and escape rooms during Passion Project Fridays
• Kialo Edu (TeachersFirst Review) – Try the real-world problem-based learning activities

Additional Resources to Consider (mentioned in the session – but not shared)

• Project Management Tools
  • Trello (TeachersFirst Review) – Organizing project and ideas
  • Todoist (TeachersFirst Review) – Organizing projects and ideas
  • Google Workspace (or your own school’s LMS) – Collaboration (if this is not a possibility collaborate on Padlet)
  • ScreenPal (TeachersFirst Review) – Video reflections
• Creation Tools 
  • Canva for Education (TeachersFirst Review) – Visual designs, templates for timelines and comic strips and much more
  • ClassTools (TeachersFirst Review) – Visual designs, headlines, hot spot images, Venn diagrams, and more
  • Scratch (TeachersFirst Review) – Coding
  • Adobe Express for Education (TeachersFirst Review) – Visual designs, animation, templates, and videos
•  Research and Presentation
  • Wakelet (TeachersFirst Review) – Curation resource
  • NearPod (TeachersFirst Review) – Interactive Presentations
  • Mentimeter (TeachersFirst Review) – Real-time feedback
  • Vevox (TeachersFirst Review) – Another poll option for real-time feedback

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