digital portfolios…..why? march 18th, 2008
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Digital Portfolios…..why? March 18th, 2008. Jill Reading – Teaching & Learning Consultant, eLearning Western Metropolitan Region [email protected]. What are your experiences?. Have you seen digital portfolios? Have your students constructed any type of digital portfolio? - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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Digital Portfolios…..why?March 18th, 2008
Jill Reading – Teaching & Learning Consultant, eLearning
Western Metropolitan Region [email protected]
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What are your experiences?
• Have you seen digital portfolios?• Have your students constructed
any type of digital portfolio?• At what year level?• For what purpose/audience?
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What are digital portfolios?
• Collections of student work that richly represent the learner
• Provide experience of learning• Typically include some student
selected material• Include evidence of student self-
reflection and goal setting
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Assessment with the following purposes in mind
• Assessment for learning• Assessment as learning• Assessment of learning
This approach is recommended in the Blueprint for Government Schools and has benefits for both students and teachers
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Digital Portfolios - Why?
• Purpose - Why are we doing this? • Are the tasks authentic?• Pedagogy - What opportunities are there for
higher order thinking and engaging students in conversations about learning?
• Assessment - What is the best way to capture and provide evidence of what learning took place?
• Technology - What new things are the digital portfolios enabling us to do?
• Learning - What learning did we value? What unexpected or unanticipated learning occurred?
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Effective purposes
• Capturing and explicitly showing student learning over time
• Provide a structure to set and track progress towards learning goals
• Develop students’ ability to reflect on their learning
• Promote a conversation about learning
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Purposes…cont’d
• Represent what, how and why a student is learning
• Assist and inform transition between year levels by communicating where students are at to new teachers
• Enhance assessment• Provide evidence when reporting to
parents or conducting 3-way reporting
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Portfolio considerations
• Student privacy• What equipment will you need?• How regularly can you access this
equipment?• What type of data will you include in the
portfolio?
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Tips for Teachers
• Clarify the purpose• Start small• Develop focus areas• Include opportunities for goal setting,
reflection & feedback• Develop classroom management
strategies• Provide opportunities for students to
communicate to interested audiences
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Resources
• Digital Portfolios CD & DVD sent to schools in 2006
• On WMR wiki - http://wmrict.wikispaces.com (Digital Portfolios section)
• ePotential Showcase - http://epotential.education.vic.gov.au/showcase/
• Digilearn - digital learning resources - https://www.eduweb.vic.gov.au/dlr/Pages/default.aspx
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Questions you might ask
• What worked well?• What needed improvement?• What would you change next time?• What management tips would you
highlight?• Did you start with a template? (Student or
teacher created?)• How do you coach students to reflect on
their work?
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Some examples
• Essendon North PS - Helen Otway• Parkwood Green PS - Martin Jonas• Wedge Park PS - Rebecca Woodward• Kings Park PS - Jodi Park• Deer Park West PS - Michelle Thompson• St. Albans SC - Mark Micallef (Jill)• Digital Portfolio disk exploration