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A Guide to Documenting Learning: Making Thinking Visible, Meaningful, Shareable, and Amplified
A new approach to contemporary documentation and learning
What is learning? How do we look for, capture, reflect on, and share learning to foster meaningful and active engagement? This vital resource helps educators answer these questions. A Guide to Documenting Learning facilitates student-driven learning and helps teachers reflect on their own learning and classroom practice. This unique how-to book
What is learning? How do we look for, capture, reflect on, and share learning to foster meaningful and active engagement? This vital resource helps educators answer these questions. A Guide to Documenting Learning facilitates student-driven learning and helps teachers reflect on their own learning and classroom practice. This unique how-to book
288 pages, Paperback
Published February 8, 2018
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December 23, 2019
A great resource for educators who want to improve documenting practices for both themselves and their students. More than just bulletin boards and SeeSaw posts, documenting is an opportunity for learners to make their learning "visible/meaningful/shareable/amplified." The book does not advocate that you document every day and every lesson. However, documenting isn't supposed to be an add-on, but thought of as a natural part of the learning process. I appreciated the section that discussed ways documentation can help students to reflect on their learning.
February 28, 2018
Everything Tolisano does is magic--teachers who have been devouring her blog posts for years can rejoice and delight in this fantastic new book. My five reasons you want to pick it up today: http://portfolios.uwcsea.edu.sg/easte...
July 20, 2018
This is a practical book for teachers that asks the questions,
"What is learning? How do we look for, capture, reflect on, and share learning to foster meaningful and active engagement?"
There are lots of useful teachings, resources, and scenarios no matter what age group you work with or what educational setting you’re in. The book could truly apply to kindergarten teachers, right up to adult learners. The concepts covered would also be priceless for administrators who are looking for ways to improve their school as a whole. A Guide To Documenting Learning should be required reading for pre-service teachers as well.
The whole concept of what it means to be literate has changed since most of us were at school ourselves. Students (and adults!) now need to do a lot more than read and write in order to be truly literate. This includes being able to communicate and express ideas in a variety of ways -- using all sorts of digital tools, video, audio, hyperlinked writing, social media etc.
This book breaks down exactly how to do that to ensure our students can thrive in a global community.
What I loved about this book is there are lots of ideas for tools mentioned, however, it is more about the processes than specific tools. The learning comes first.
The QR codes and companion website brings the book alive -- there is extra information and a challenge etc. on http://www.documenting4learning.com. This could be ideal if a group of teachers wanted to study the book together.
This is the type of book you could dip back into throughout the school year for new ideas and inspiration.
"What is learning? How do we look for, capture, reflect on, and share learning to foster meaningful and active engagement?"
There are lots of useful teachings, resources, and scenarios no matter what age group you work with or what educational setting you’re in. The book could truly apply to kindergarten teachers, right up to adult learners. The concepts covered would also be priceless for administrators who are looking for ways to improve their school as a whole. A Guide To Documenting Learning should be required reading for pre-service teachers as well.
The whole concept of what it means to be literate has changed since most of us were at school ourselves. Students (and adults!) now need to do a lot more than read and write in order to be truly literate. This includes being able to communicate and express ideas in a variety of ways -- using all sorts of digital tools, video, audio, hyperlinked writing, social media etc.
This book breaks down exactly how to do that to ensure our students can thrive in a global community.
What I loved about this book is there are lots of ideas for tools mentioned, however, it is more about the processes than specific tools. The learning comes first.
The QR codes and companion website brings the book alive -- there is extra information and a challenge etc. on http://www.documenting4learning.com. This could be ideal if a group of teachers wanted to study the book together.
This is the type of book you could dip back into throughout the school year for new ideas and inspiration.
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July 22, 2018A staple in today’s classroom, A Guide to Documenting Learning walks educators through the process of taking documentation from displays and snapshots of classroom activities to the interpretation and conveyance of learning, and to its ultimate use as a tool for both teachers and students to direct the course of learning through metacognitive insights, discoveries, and analyzation. Step-by-step processes emphasize the science and necessity of technological documentation in the 21st century classroom.
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