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Stephen Downes

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The dictionary definition of 'agency' is "the capacity, condition, or state of acting or of exerting power," says Will Richardson. This makes the typical ed tech use of the word a little odd. Consider: "you always know yourself where you are on a topic, that you have the sense of what the tasks are, how much there's left to do to achieve certain levels." Not really the same at all. 

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