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Parents and caretakers often amass a large amount of observations of their children, but their observations are rarely rigorous. The Making Playful Learning Visible project has been enormously successful in providing parents and other caregivers with the tools necessary to transform their observations into usable data - data that can be compared, analysed, and used.
The second phase of the project is now complete. Funded by a generous grant from the Esmée Fairburn Foundation and supported by Nokia and Hutchison 3G UK Limited, the second phase saw the development of a robust methodology to inform and guide parents and caregivers in observing their children's learning and the creation of a searchable database of video observations to be used as the basis of research worldwide. In the most tangible sense, this project has helped 'make (playful) learning visible'.
THE SECOND PHASE RESEARCH REPORT IS NOW AVAILABLE.
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| Consequences
This project has the following important consequences:
- it recognises that parents have expertise when it comes to observing children and gives a positive value to this expertise,
- it motivates parents to look for and identify their children's learning,
- it provides parents with a scientific framework in which they can better understand their children's learning, and
- it generates data that can be used by parents and researchers alike to compare, understand and evaluate the rich process of children's learning.
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