Choice Boards and learner agency

What are some ways to empower learners with choice?

We can make sure learners have agency over the elements of learning such as

• pace (flexibility over the flow of learning)
• path (learners make decisions about how to learn or how to demonstrate learning)
• place (blended learning opens up possibilities for learning in a variety of settings and at times convenient for learners)

Choice Boards are a type of hyperdoc where activities are organized in a grid, often like a tic-tac-toe board or a bingo board. Learners make choices about what activities they do and mark them on the grid as they finish. Unlike a proper hyperdoc, choice boards do not necessarily tale a learner through a complete learning cycle.

Using hyperdocs is also part of a blended learning approach. Here is more about hyperdocs:

• What is a HyperDoc?
• How HyperDocs Can Transform Your Teaching
• Hyperdocs in adult literacy

Here is more about Choice Boards from Ditch That Textbook:

• A good option: the choice board
• A better option: the progressive choice board

Some samples that Educator Network participants found:

• 7 Choice Board samples for remote learning
• Digital Media Design Student Choice Board
• Reading Choice Board: Story Elements (PDF)

And here is a collection of Choice Board templates from SlidesMania shared with us by Lindy Hockenbary from EDTech Teacher:

• SlidesMania Choice Board Collection

If you’d like to learn more about Choice Boards, contact Tracey.

P.S. Here is an amazing collaboration non-hyperdoc choice board I saw from @modernclassproj on Twitter.

Collaboration and self-pacing? Totally possible in a Modern Classroom! Kim Myers Manning shared with our Facebook group how she sets up her whiteboard to facilitate both.

• The tweet
• My quote tweet