uni assessment

1. Ensuring Student Success
Assessment Task One: Professional Development Package/Presentation
Tania Kerr, Erica Smith, Michael Smith, and Sarah Turner
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2. Digital Portfolios
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3. Do you know?
• What is a Digital Portfolio?
• How can it be used to
support assessment and
reporting?
Brainstorm
“Hello, synapses? Are you firing?”
Make yourbrainmoresociable -brainstormwithafriend!
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4. Do you know?
• What is a Digital Portfolio?
• How can it be used to support assessment and reporting?
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5. Do you know?
• What is a Digital Portfolio?
• How can it be used to support assessment and reporting?
Our goal
Before our 10 minutes is up, we want you to:
• Understand what a Digital Portfolio is through our definition
• Know how Digital Portfolios can support assessment and reporting
• Have key understandings of successful use of Digital Portfolios & some
technologies that can be used
• Have a “spark” or desire to explore Digital Portfolios - imagine your
future classroom!
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6. Digital whats?
Quite honestly, we didn’t know what a “digital
portfolio” was, either.
...Well, we had some ideas, but we had to do a lot of
reading and research - Hence our choice in Complex
Reasoning Process, DoL 4 - Investigation.
We modelled our questions after those of Definitional
Investigation (Marzano & Pickering, 1997, p. 236).
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7. • Collection of work samples
• Hard work!
• Showcase classroom activities
• A tick for ICT use
• Collection of resources for a
topic
• I don’t know, something
online?
Brainstorm
When asked, people said:
Fun responses from
our peers & friends:
Thanks to those
who assisted!
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8. Our definition
Our investigation and discussions lead us to our
own definition - this was heavily influenced
by blogs, networking with schools & professionals,
our own experiences, research, and texts.
Check out our Wiki for helpful links!
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9. DoL 4 -­ Investigation
Digital portfolios are an electronic collection of
purposeful evidence that demonstrate a
learning journey, which also supports the
assessment process for learning, and provides
learners with opportunities to self-assess and
reflect on their learning journey, as well as
communicating with and providing relevant
evidence to appropriate stakeholders
(Barrett, 2011, Brady & Kennedy, 2012).
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10. DoL 4 -­ Investigation
Digital Portfolios should:
Be an assessment FOR learning (not OF learning)
Remember that!
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11. Digital Portfolio: Looks like?
What exactly does a Digital Portfolio look like?
How do you imagine Digital Portfolios look,
sound and feel? How would people interact
with them?
Think - Pair - Share
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12. Digital Portfolio: Looks like?
What exactly does a Digital Portfolio look like?
Do you use social networking sites?
Did you post what you ate for
breakfast on Facebook this
morning? Think of how connected
the current generation going
through school is right now - it’s
quite possible that students in your
Early Childhood classes have had an
online presence since birth!
Tweet that!
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13. Digital Portfolio: Looks like?
What exactly does a Digital Portfolio look like?
Do you use social networking sites?
Did you post what you ate for
breakfast on Facebook this
morning? Think of how connected
the current generation going
through school is right now - it’s
quite possible that students in your
Early Childhood classes have had an
online presence since birth!
Tweet that!
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14. Digital Portfolio: Looks like?
• Web 2.0 tools (Wiki, Blog,Website)
• Portable e-devices (iPod, iPad,
iPhone, e-Readers, laptops, etc)
• Digital storage media (flash drives,
CD-ROM, DVD, Portable Hard Drives, etc)
Technologies that could be used:
There are infinite possibilities, and as more technologies emerge,
this field will continue expanding...
That’s why it’s important to be life long learners!
(You get to explore some of these tools in Managing e-Learning)
Do you have an example? Have you seen Digital Portfolios in use?
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15. An Example
Digital Portfolio for learning: My story
http://visuallearningandinnovation.blogspot.com.au
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16. An Example
Digital Portfolio for learning: My story
http://visuallearningandinnovation.blogspot.com.au
Reflective practice: Blogging
•Assessment was to deliver a “Pecha Kucha”* style
presentation on our own “innovative” artwork
•Criteria was to research 3 artists from different art
periods and incorporate elements into own artwork
*Pecha Kucha is a presentation style, where you have
20 slides which automatically transition every 20
seconds
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17. An Example
Digital Portfolio for learning: My story
http://visuallearningandinnovation.blogspot.com.au
•No words typically
•About journey
•Presentation/
discussion
•Sharing process
•Evidence of learning
•Self-assessment,
reflection
•Rewarding process
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18. Digital Portfolio 101Remember: Digital Portfolios are used as an assessment FOR learning, not OF learning.
So, you want to use digital portfolios in assessment and
reporting. Have you considered the logistics?
Using digital portfolios has great advantages, but there’s
also a lot of considerations to make prior to embracing
the technology.You don’t want a digital disaster of clutter
and files showcasing your student’s learning journey!
O’Rouke (2004) has a list of 10 key steps!
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19. Digital Portfolio 101Remember: Digital Portfolios are used as an assessment FOR learning, not OF learning.
1- Clarify the purpose
2- Start small
3- Develop focus areas
4- Develop indicators for each focus area
5- Opportunities for goal setting, reflection, feedback and
critique
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20. Digital Portfolio 101Remember: Digital Portfolios are used as an assessment FOR learning, not OF learning.
6- Develop classroom management & organisation strategies
7- Continually clarify expectations with students
8- Plan logistics of technology provision
9- Develop whole school learning and change plan
10- Allow students to communicate with interested audiences
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21. Now, let’s get this straight...
It is not: It is:
Technology for ICT sake
Assessment for learning
Mandated artefacts
Dumping ground of work
samples
Student’s expression of own
journey
Communication and
reporting tool
Has a purpose
An assessment OF learning:
the understandings,
processes, skills or aptitudes
Digital Portfolio 101
(Assessment Reform Group, 2002, Barrett, 2005)
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22. Digital Portfolio 101Dr. Helen Barrett (digital portfolio hero) says:
•Create an environment about participation!
•Digital Folios should have Intrinsic Motivation - not
“necessity”- this provides engagement
• {CQ + PQ} > IQ
{Curiosity Quota + Passion Quota} > Intelligence Quota
Kids who are curious and passionate will achieve mastery over
digital technologies, it is not a matter of intelligence.
What do you think?
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23. Digital Portfolio 101DigitalTechnologies in the School:
Consider:
ACARA cross-curricular priorities
TPACK (technology, pedagogy, content knowledge)
Learning theories (connectivism, constructionism, etc)
School policies and priorities
Future workplaces, learning environments, and technologies?
Student needs
So, now you have a taste for Digital Portfolios!
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Coalition of Essential Schools (1998 – 2002). Getting started with digital portfolios. Retrieved
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EducationWorld (1996 – 2013). Using technology: Electronic Portfolios in the K-12 classroom.
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Klein Dytham Architecture. (2013). PechaKucha: 20 images X 20 seconds. Retrieved from: http://
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