1. education

Making Classroom Connections
ePortfolios
A Personal Space for
Learning
Waimarino Cluster - 20 June 2008
Ian Fox and Lenva Shearing
Bucklands Beach Intermediate
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Joel Barker
Vision without action is merely a
dream
Action without vision just passes
the time
Vision with action can change the
world
Do we have a clear vision
for learning for
our students?
Vision
Action
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“The illiterates of the 21st
century will not be those who
cannot read and write, but those
who cannot learn, unlearn and
relearn.”
Alvin Toffler 2003
“The problem with education is not that schools
aren’t what they used to be.”
“The problem is that they are what they used
to be!”
Gerstner, Semerand, Doyle and Johnson
Reinventing Education
Americas Public Schools (1994)
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“A yawning chasm, (with the
emphasis on yawning), separates the
world inside the schoolhouse from
the world outside.”
Wallis and Steptoe, 2006
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‘Windows on the Future’
Ted McCain and Ian Jukes
Corwin Press - 2001
NZ Curriculum
Vision statement
Students will need 21st century skills to enable
them to be “confident, connected,actively
involved, lifelong learners”
(Ministry of Education, 2007, p.7.)
A shift in emphasis away from:Having students learn a specific set body of
content in a subject area.
Towards:a stronger focus on the skills and qualities required
to facilitate independent life-long learning.
Engage Students in
their 21st Century
Learning
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METACOGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT
MODELS FOR
LEARNING
REFLECTION
GOAL SETTING
SELF
DEVELOPMENT
ASSESSMENT OF INDEPENDENT
LEARNERS
CLEAR SUCCESS
CRITERIA
ASSESSMENT
TO IMPROVE
LEARNING
AUTHENTIC
PROCESS &
PRODUCT
SHARED
UNDERSTANDING
PARENTAL
INVOLVEMENT
STUDENT LED
CONFERENCE
DEVELOPMENT
OF HOMESCHOOL LINKS
LEARNING TO LEARN PORTFOLIO MODEL
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Ian Fox
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Where to now?
ePortfolio
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A move from
this......
to this.
WWW
Discuss with the person beside you
what it is you think that makes an
ePortfolio different from the more
traditional ‘Paper Portfolio’.
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What is an
e-Portfolio?
“An organised collection of digital and/or
analog artifacts and reflective statements that
demonstrate growth over time.’
Helen Barrett
Dr Helen Barrett
www.electronicportfolios.org
An ePortfolio uses technologies as the container,
allowing teacher/students to collect and organise
artifacts in many media types, (audio, video,
graphic, text); and using hyperlinks to organise
the material, connecting evidence to appropriate
outcomes, goals or standards.Σ
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Dr Helen Barrett
www.electronicportfolios.org
Traditional portfolio processes
include:-
Adding technology allows
enhancement through:-
¥ Collecting
¥ Archiving
¥ Selecting
¥ Linking/Thinking
¥ Reflecting
¥ Storytelling
¥ Projecting
¥ Collaborating
¥ Celebrating
¥ Publishing
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Why keep an
ePortfolio?
What is its
purpose?
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In what ways do you
think an ePortfolio could
benefit student
learning?
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Dr Helen Barrett
www.electronicportfolios.org
Evidence based
Evidence = Artifacts + Reflection (Rationale) +
Validation (Feedback)
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ePortfolios help students tell their
stories : • They can COLLECT more than text documents.
- Pictures
- Audio
- Video
• They can focus on REFLECTION over time
• They help students to make CONNECTIONS
• They support MULTIMEDIA formats
“The principle task of education is to create men and women who are
capable of doing new things, not simply repeating what other generations
have done before.”
Jean Piaget
Original music
compositions
"Do we need war to maintain peace?"
Music
Student
Voice
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Dr Helen Barrett
www.electronicportfolios.org/digistory/howto.html
ТA digital story is a digital video clip, told in the author's own
voice, illustrated mostly with still images, with an optional
music track added for emotional effect. Rhetorically, a
digital story is a personal narrative that may show the
authors identity: strengths, weaknesses, achievements,
disappointments, learning experiences, passions, and
hopes for the future; in other words: reflection. У
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Reflection
Dr Helen Barrett
Reflection
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What have I done well?
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What difficulties did I have
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What can I do next time to improve?
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What are some of the
things you could put
into an ePortfolio?
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An ePortfolio can help students
move from....
Extrinsic
Intrinsic
Motivation
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So much of what
happens in schools
is top down!
A question to ask.....
“Is this ePortfolio about my teaching
supported by student evidence?”
or....
“Is this ePortfolio about student learning
supported by my guidance?”
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 We are the last generation of
teachers who will have a
choice whether or not to use
or not use the new
technologies in the classroom.
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 Sheryl Nussbaum-Beach 2007
Getting started
What is the purpose for the ePortfolio?
What do I do first?
Collection
Selection
Reflection
Direction
Presentation
Dr Helen Barett
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We must face facts!
1 We live in a new and very different world, one
that is constantly recreating and redefining itself.
2 Changing our schools is absolutely essential if
our children are to be properly prepared for the
world.
3 We need to create schools that will teach the new
skills that will be necessary to prepare students
for the new world.
We must face facts!
4 We should recognise that just throwing more
technology at the problem will not really solve the
problem.
5 The real issue is the paradigm paralysis of
teachers, principals, parents and politicians who
have a rear-view mirror mentality when it comes
to what schools should be.
The issue is not a hard-ware issue.
It is a head-ware issue.
Some people see
things as they are
and ask;
"Why?"
Others see things
as they could
be and ask;
George Bernard Shaw
"Why not?"