Agency – Power Overwhelming
Sometimes my OTIS students suggest features or things for the OTIS website, and I reply “submit a pull request”. I’m usually half-joking when I say this, because I acknowledge tha…
Agency Sometimes my OTIS students suggest features or things for the OTIS website, and I reply “submit a pull request ”. I’m usually half-joking when I say this, because I acknowledge that I’m essentially saying “please do the work for me”. But part of me isn’t joking. Because, one of the things I’ve grown to most value in gifted education is developing self-agency for my students. If you’re reading this blog post, you’re likely to have good thinking abilities. You have the capacity to go from point A to point B, to teach yourself geometry from online resources (or a certain print textbook, I
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