361: How children can become involved in documenting their own learning with Tapestry
Sep 18, 2023
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The podcast explores how Tapestry, an online learning journal, enhances children's ability to explain their learning. It highlights the benefits of child-centered education and involving children in the assessment process. The chapter emphasizes the importance of child-centered learning and the ability for children to document their learning in a way that suits their individual needs. It also discusses how Tapestry can help children develop cognitive skills and improve overall learning outcomes. The speakers discuss the value of collaboration and community in education.
Children using Tapestry's child login feature become better at explaining their learning and engage more fully as active learners.
The use of child logging in Tapestry allows students to take ownership of their learning, track their own progress, and develop stronger cognitive skills.
Deep dives
Tapestry: Enhancing Communication and Learning
Tapestry, an online learning journal and management tool, supports communication and learning in primary schools. By using the child logging feature, children can add their own comments and videos, enhancing their ability to explain their learning using complex language. This approach has shown that children become better at expressing themselves and engaging as active learners. The partnership between Tapestry and Arendel C. of E. Primary School showcases the benefits of child-centered learning and how it revolutionizes the assessment process. The use of child logging allows students to upload their work, reflecting on their progress and strengths while improving areas that need development.
Promoting Self-Regulated Learning with Tapestry
The child log-in feature in Tapestry enables students to take ownership of their learning and become self-regulated learners. With the ability to upload their own work, children can share their knowledge and track their own progress. This fosters motivation, engagement, and a deeper understanding of strengths and weaknesses. Teachers at Arendel C. of E. Primary School have embraced this approach and have seen children develop stronger cognitive skills, conversational abilities, and resilience through the assessment process.
Customization and Future Development with Tapestry
Tapestry offers schools the flexibility to tailor the platform to their individual needs and curriculum. The development team at Tapestry values input from schools and continuously works to improve the platform based on customer feedback. Bespoke frameworks and features, such as areas of concern and conferencing, are being explored to provide educators with better ways to monitor and assess student progress. The Tapestry team aims to support schools in their quest for personalized and innovative learning experiences.
The Power of Tapestry in Promoting Ongoing Assessment and Growth
Tapestry's online learning journal simplifies the assessment process by allowing schools to easily record and review observations. Through an intuitive interface, students can upload videos, audio, documents, and photos to showcase their learning journey. This comprehensive approach to assessment enhances motivation, engagement, and understanding of the learning process. With over 17,000 settings and more than a million users worldwide, Tapestry empowers schools to embrace holistic, child-centered learning.
Ben Case from Tapestry, an online learning journal used in thousands of primary schools and early years settings, has been working with teaching staff at Arundel C of E Primary School for the past two years to support the work they've been doing to encourage pupils to reflect on, and talk about, their own learning. This has involved using Tapestry's child login feature which enables children to add their own comments and videos describing their learning. The school has found that children are:
Andrew Simpson, Headteacher, Arundel CoE Primary School also joins us to share his experience of using this feature from Tapestry and how it works within the school.
Watch Mark Taylor interview Al Kingsley about 'Creating Digital Strategies for Schools' as part of the Primary Education Summit 2023 - Visions for the Future - presented by National Association for Primary Education (NAPE)
https://www.educationonfire.com/creating-digital-strategies-for-schools/
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