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An Update to the Upgraded KWL for the 21st Century

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From langwitches.org - June 12, 2015 11:26 PM
In 2011, I wrote a blog post, titled Upgrade your KWL Chart to the 21st Century. It described how I learned about a new version of the traditional KWL (What do I Know, What do I Want to know and wh...
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Check out this new version of the KWL chart by Silvia Rosenthal Tomlison. What we once called KWL is now the KWHLAQ.

* K stands for  'What do you KNOW?'

* W stands for 'What do you WANT to know?'

* H stands for 'HOW will you find out?'

* L stands for 'What have your LEARNED?'

* A stands for 'What ACTION will you take?'

* Q stands for 'What further QUESTIONS do you have?'

This new visual also includes suggestions under each category to help students make their "thinking and learning visible." For more information click through to the post.

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Tony Guzman's curator insight, June 15, 2015 2:44 PM

This article shares an updated version of KWL (What do I Know, What do I Want to know and what have I Learned). How many use this in their classrooms?
Ellen Dougherty's curator insight, August 1, 2015 11:49 AM

Check out this new version of the KWL chart by Silvia Rosenthal Tomlison. What we once called KWL is now the KWHLAQ.

* K stands for  'What do you KNOW?'

* W stands for 'What do you WANT to know?'

* H stands for 'HOW will you find out?'

* L stands for 'What have your LEARNED?'

* A stands for 'What ACTION will you take?'

* Q stands for 'What further QUESTIONS do you have?'

This new visual also includes suggestions under each category to help students make their "thinking and learning visible." For more information click through to the post.
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Upgrade your KWL Chart to the 21st Century

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From langwitches.org - April 23, 2014 9:57 PM
One of the take aways from the Curriculum Mapping Institute this past week was that it brought an upgrade to THE trusted KWL (Know, What to Know and Learned) Chart to the forefront. It seems a no b...
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Not too long ago I posted an article that suggested we move from the KWL chart to the KWHL chart...and here is another post that suggests we make it more in-depth by adding the letters A and Q.

What do all these letters stand for?

K - What do I know?

W - What do I want to know?

H - How do I find out?

L - What have I learned?

A - What action will I take?

Q - What new questions do I have?

More in-depth discussions of these new letters are included in the post.

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The Rice Process's curator insight, April 24, 2014 6:55 AM

Taking the KWL chart to the next level.
Kate JohnsonMcGregor's curator insight, April 24, 2014 8:43 AM

I love this idea - it fits beautifully with the concept of Inquiry-based learning and students assuming ownership of the research process - Yay ACTION! The idea that learning and research are ongoing - and active - is a key element to new learning models. Very exciting!
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Padlet Adds a New Layout Option

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From www.freetech4teachers.com - July 17, 2014 8:18 PM

"Today, during the Practical Ed Tech Summer Camp I discovered a new layout option in Padlet. In addition to the free form and stream layouts there is now a grid layout option. Selecting the grid option in the "modify wall" menu will snap your free form notes into a grid."

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Padlet has recently added a new layout option and Richard Byrne provides a step-by-step guide on how to use Padet as well as  "ideas and directions for using Socrative and TodaysMeet."

Padlet has been available for quite a few years (and was first known as Wallwisher) and works on a variety of platforms. It may be used collaboratively and Byrne suggests using it as an exit ticket.

Socrative is a student response system and TodaysMeet is a  backchannel chat room.

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Moving Beyond KWL Charts To Assess Prior-Knowledge

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From www.teachthought.com - March 12, 2013 10:08 PM

"Recently, a curriculum coordinator at a Montreal IB World school asked me how we might assess students’ prior knowledge without using the standard KWL chart format.

It occurred to me that one of the most powerful means of challenging students to think of what they already know is by using a problematic scenario. Such a scenario is usually a complex, ill-structured situation that embeds within it significant curricular concepts that stimulates inquiry at the beginning of a unit and can be used as one of the summative assessments."

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Have you considered moving the KWL Chart into a new realm? This post provides a number of examples about how you can move the chart to be one that addresses inquiry, helping learners become more self-directed. Below is one way to look at what the KWL might stand for...and check out the post for some great examples! (The text below is quoted from the post.)

* K  What do we already know about the problem?  Identify important facts. (Kinds of ingredients? 8 and 24? birthday party? How to multiply and divide?)

* W  What do we need to find out? What are they asking us to do?  What’s the problem to solve?

* H  How will we go about finding out how to make 24 cookies?  What’s our plan?

* L  What are we learning along the way?  At the end of the process?

 

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Darren Smith's curator insight, March 13, 2013 11:36 PM

 Already use aversion of this with my classes KWIRL. The focus is on the I for inquiry, the HOW? of student engagement, R is knowing exactly what the REPORT form is so that you and students can work together to backward map and co-construct rubrics so that they have an enhanced undressing of what the LEARNT.
Delia Esquivel-Pearsons's curator insight, January 31, 2014 2:02 PM

Creative!
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