A Guide to Documenting Learning

Making Thinking Visible, Meaningful, Shareable, and Amplified

Silvia Rosenthal Tolisano, Janet A. Hale

• Publisher: Corwin
• Year: 2018
• Print ISBN: 9781506385570
• eBook ISBN: 9781506385563
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Education
• Subtopic: Education Teaching Methods

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? A Guide to Documenting Learning helps educators answer these questions. 

Documenting learning is a process that makes thinking about learning processes visible, meaningful, shareable, and amplified. It facilitates student-driven learning, helping students reflect on and articulate their own learning processes. It also helps teachers reflect on their own learning and classroom practice. When teachers are co-creators with their students, both gain valuable insights that inform future learning and empower students as engaged learners. This unique how-to book

• Explains the purposes and different types of documentation
• Teaches different "LearningFlow" systems to help educators integrate documentation throughout the curriculum
• Provides authentic examples of documentation in real classrooms
• Is accompanied by a robust companion website where readers can find even more documentation examples and video tutorials

Written for educators of any grade level, this book provides insights into contemporary learning and professional learning environments, and emphasizes the power of technology to amplify teaching and learning beyond school walls. 

"This book touches upon information that would be useful to any school system because it scaffolds ways that educators can help students make their thinking known, which will only improve their future reasoning skills."
LaQuita Outlaw, Principal
Bay Shore Middle School, Bay Shore, NY

"This book will become an important guide for schools and educators to have on their shelves. The content is original, highly organized and presents many new ideas on documenting learning. It takes what is happening in the world of teaching right now and elevates it to a coherent pedagogical process. The graphics are a fantastic resource."
Andrea Hernandez, Educational Consultant
amplifiEDucation and edtechworkshop.blogspot.com, Jacksonville, FL

 
 

 

Table of contents

• Cover
• Acknowledgements
• Half Title
• Acknowledgements
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Contents
• Foreword
• Preface
• Acknowledgments
• About the Authors
• Introduction
• 1 Documenting Learning Types and Purposes
• 2 Documenting Learning and the Now Literacies
• 3 Documenting Pedagogy and Heutagogy
• 4 Documenting Engagement and Learning Layers
• 5 Documenting With Sharing and Amplifying in Mind
• 6 Documenting Phases
• 7 Documenting Learningflow Routine
• 8 Documenting With Textual and Visual Platforms and Tools in Mind
• 9 Documenting With Audio, Video, and Blogging Platforms and Tools in Mind
• 10 Documenting With Unpacking in Mind
• 11 Documenting Challenge 21st Century Skills and the Now Literacies
• 12 Documenting Learning and Branding Administrative Actions
• 13 Documenting Learning Moving Forward
• Appendix
• Glossary
• References
• Index
• Publisher Note
• Publisher Note