This document discusses the use of interactive portfolios and web 2.0 tools to support assessment for learning. It describes how tools like blogs, wikis and Google apps can be used to enable teacher and peer feedback to improve student achievement. The document advocates for student-managed electronic portfolios that allow students to take ownership of their learning and set goals. It also discusses how portfolios can facilitate reflection, feedback, and social learning to engage students and support deep, lifelong learning.
24. Multiple Tools to Support Processes-Capturing & storing evidence-Reflecting-Giving & receiving feedback-Planning & setting goals-Collaborating-Presenting to an audience
As defined in a JISC publication, Effective Practices with e-portfolios: The e-portfolio is the central and common point for the student experience… It is a reflection of the student as a person undergoing continuous personal development, not just a store of evidence. (Geoff Rebbeck, e-Learning Coordinator, Thanet College, quoted in JISC, 2008, Effective Practice with e-Portfolios)
Phil Abrami and researchers at Concordia University developed ePearl, an ePortfolio tool. Their goal: Encouraging self-regulated learning through electronic portfolios. Self regulated learning is shown here through three processes: planning, doing and reflecting.
How do portfolios and reflection fit into the this self-regulation process?BEFORE - goal-setting (reflection in the future tense), setting the stage for actionDURING - immediate reflection (in the present tense), where students capture evidence during the learning process, or maintain a learning journalAFTER - retrospective (in the past tense) where students look back on performance efforts, and their response to the learning experience.Portfolios can be used to record all three types of reflection
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There are the two major approaches to implementing e-portfolios. Janus is the Roman god of gates and doors, beginnings and endings, and hence represented with a double-faced head, each looking in opposite directions. He was worshipped at the beginning of the harvest time, planting, marriage, birth, and other types of beginnings, especially the beginnings of important events in a person's life. Janus also represents the transition between primitive life and civilization, between the countryside and the city, peace and war, and the growing-up of young people.
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Collection -- Creating the Digital Archive (regularly – weekly/monthly)Digital Conversion (Collection)Artifacts represent integration of technology in one curriculum area (i.e., Language Arts) Stored in GoogleDocs
Collection/Reflection/Feedback (Immediate Reflection/Feedback on Learning & Artifacts in Collection) (regularly) organized chronologically (in a blog?)Captions (Background Information on assignment, Response)Artifacts represent integration of technology in most curriculum areas (Feedback in blog or GoogleDocs)If you are blogging with your students on a regular basis, you are beginning a working portfolio.
Selection/Reflection and Direction (each semester? End of year?) organized thematically (in web pages or wiki)Why did I choose these pieces? What am I most proud to highlight about my work?What do they show about my learning? What more can I learn (Goals for the Future)?Presentation (annually)Evaluation
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Perhaps most predominant in many teacher education programs today.
“Portfolios should be less about tellingand more about talking!” Julie Hughes, University of Wolverhampton