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? 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:
Foreword Preface A Collaboration Invitation Acknowledgments About the Authors Introduction Chapter Descriptions 1. Documenting Learning Types and Purposes Documenting Learning Types Documenting Learning Purposes 2. Documenting Learning and the Now Literacies Relationship Between Documenting Learning and Now Literacies 3. Documenting Pedagogy and Heutagogy Defining the Difference Between Pedagogical Documentation and Heutagogical Documentation Defining the Difference Between Displaying and Documenting 4. Documenting Engagement and Learning Layers Defining Learner Engagement Documenting Learning Layers 5. Documenting With Sharing and Amplifying in Mind Sharing and Amplifying When Documenting Learning 6. Documenting Phases Documentation Phases 7. Documenting Learningflow Routine Learningflow Routine Steps 8. Documenting With Text and Visual Platforms and Tools in Mind Text and Visual Platforms and Tools 9. Documenting With Audio, Video, and Blogging Platforms and Tools in Mind Audio and Video Platforms and Tools Blogging Platforms and Tools 10. Documenting With Unpacking in Mind Unpacking Documentation Artifacts 11. Documenting Challenge: 21st Century Skills and the Now Literacies Focusing the Challenge Framing the Challenge Applying the Challenge 12. Documenting Learning and Branding: Administrative Actions School and District Brand Identity 13. Documenting Learning: Moving Forward What to Cut? What to Keep? What to Upgrade? Appendix Glossary References Index