Making Learning Visible
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Learning Groups
Classroom Learning Groups
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Getting Started with Learning Groups
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Creating a Community of Learners in your Classroom
Looking at Learning in Groups: Visual Essay and Classroom Discussion Guidelines
Group Learning Features in Practice
Considerations when Forming a Learning Group
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The Individual in the Group: The Entrypoints Chart, Student Interviews, and Student Surveys
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Teacher Examples
Student Study Group Planner
Creating A Culture of Dialogue
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Changing our Skin: Creating Collective Knowledge
Helping Students Give and Receive Feedback
The Ladder of Feedback: A routine for giving feedback about an idea or artifact
MLV for Secondary Schools
Teacher Learning Groups
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Adult Learning Groups
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Sharing Documentation with Colleagues
Making Learning Visible Cycle of Inquiry
Activities for Exploring Group Learning and Documentation
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“Throwing Your Money Away”
"What Does the Internet Look Like?”
“Going Public: Transforming the Bulletin Board”
Protocols for looking at documentation
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Looking at Documentation: Protocols for reviewing and critiquing documentation
See-Think-Wonder: A routine for exploring and noticing
Ladder of Feedback (see Supporting Learning in Groups in the Classroom)
Documenting Learning
Getting Started with Documentation
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Getting Started with Documentation in Your Classroom
Documentation and Display: What’s the Difference?
Documentation: When Does it Make Learning Visible?
MYST (Me-You-Space-Time: A Reflecting Routine)
Documentation Features in Practice
Photographs as Documentation: Some Guidelines
The Documentation Process
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Sharing Documentation with Colleagues
Using Video: From Capturing to Downloading to Editing to Sharing
Documentation: Photo and Video
Revisiting Learning Moments
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Making Students' Words Visible: Speech Bubbles
Small books
Reflecting on post-its, photographs and video
Engaging Families
Informing Families about Making Learning Visible (or MLV: Why Bother?)
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Sample Letter Home
“Why Don’t You Tell the Other Kids?”
An Elementary School Parent’s Reflections
“Exploring Group Learning: An Activity and a Thought Problem”
Involving Families in the Learning Process
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Refrigerator Reminders: 5 ways to make learning visible at home
Inviting family members in before the end of a unit/Documenting at home and in the classroom
Family Study Groups
Communicating with Families about Learning
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Making Learning Visible Family Survey
Sharing Images of Learning
Another Way To Think About Bulletin Boards
MLV Beyond the Classroom
Sharing Stories of Learning
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Bulletin boards that make learning visible
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More Bulletin Board Examples
Engaging City Hall: Children as Citizens
“Zooms”
Schoolwide Exhibitions of Teaching and Learning
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Creating an Exhibition of Teaching and Learning
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More Exhibitions of Teaching and Learning
Components of Making Learning Visible
Graphic Design Principles: Considerations for making visual displays
Making Learning Visible in the Community
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DVD
Places to Play in Providence
Menu: “A Taste of MLV”
FOL/PZC
Blog MLV in Practice
Digital Resources
Wordle generates “word clouds” from text that you provide.
Vimeo is a respectful community of creative people who are passionate about sharing the videos they make.
Flickr is an online photo management and sharing application in the world.
Voicethread transforms media into collaborative spaces with video, voice, and text commenting.
Weebly has an easy, drag & drop interface to create your own website.
Comic Life lets you create astounding comics, beautiful picture albums, how-tos... and more!
Here you will be able to find protocols and supporting materials for use in your collaborative learning groups and professional learning communities.
Our videatives help you see what children know™ and thereby help you better support their learning.