Case Study: Digital Floorbooks

This case study explores how Carron Primary have been exploring digital floorbooks to capture learning in IDL across their school. Hear from teachers Aimee Allison and Linsey Archibald about their experiences planning for and implementing the move to digital floorbooks.

 

Context

“As part of our School Improvement Plan 2021/22 we were asked to undertake a test of change in our classrooms, linked to digital learning and relevant to our class. Aimee identified that it was sometimes tricky to evidence learning in IDL in the early years due to active learning and play. So, as a test of change, to both evidence IDL learning whilst also applying skills developed through Apple Teacher Training, she created what is now known as a Digital Floorbook, using Pages.”

What did you do?

“Aimee began a topic in P2, ‘Animals Around The World’ and began documenting the pupils learning journey. This included recording key questions and prior knowledge and then using Pages to record evidence, such as voice recordings, videos and photographs. We were then able to share pupil voice throughout the whole topic whilst easily reflecting back to the key questions and the journey so far. We then were able to link this to planning, E&Os, benchmarks and skills..”

 

Pages

Pages is a core built in iPad app that allows you to create documents. It has the ability to easily and quickly add a range of multimedia content. Pages can be exported to PDF or EPUB making it easy to download and share content with others.

What was the impact?

“The impact was being able to evidence learning journeys, bringing learning to life. It allowed children to lead aspects of their own learning and reflect back on their learning throughout the context. They could instantly see their learning (we use Apple TV to share our digital floor books), which helped improve engagement.”

The examples below are from Linsey’s class and their P5 Digital Floorbook documenting their learning over their Titanic topic.

Screenshots have been inserted from a Padlet activity finding out what learners already know and what they want to find out about the Titanic from the beginning of the topic.

Photographs of pupil physical work have been added alongside the relevant CfE Experiences and Outcomes statements linked to this particular learning activity. 

Learners have made iMovie advertising films to show their understand if persuasive language. These have been airdropped to the teacher who has collected them all across a few pages of the Digital Floorbook.

Pupil Voice

“I like looking back through all our learning and we can still look at it this year too.”

“I loved seeing other people’s work on the board.

“I enjoyed making up my own animals and making them talk on Chatterpix.”

Where next?

“Due to the success of the initial test of change, this has now become an integral part of our School Improvement Plan. All classes are now using digital floor books to evidence IDL, and our Primary 1 teachers are also using them to document literacy, numeracy and discovery learning. Our P6 and P7 pupils are using digital floor books to record their personal learning journeys too. The floor books are also a collaborative tool across stages and useful to pass on to future teachers so that it is clear what the pupils have covered, allowing for coherence in learning. We are looking at ways that we may be able to share these with parents and carers in the future, which may mean that we explore different platforms for creating the floor books.”

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