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Marti Weston

Digital Portfolios: Revise, Reflect & Publish | Catlin Tucker, Honors English Teacher - 3 views

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    Excellent description on the process of creating digital portfolios.
Demetri Orlando

Principles of Good Practice for ePortfolios - 8 views

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    Word doc, Principles of Good Practice in Using Electronic Portfolios. Synthesis of the ideas from the CIEL meeting held at Alverno College in March, 2004. Prepared by Karen Spear, Executive Director of CIEL: http://www.cielearn.org/educators/papers.htm
Demetri Orlando

Introduction to K-12 ePortfolios - 4 views

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    Helen Barrett's new online course for digital portfolios
Demetri Orlando

Yokahama International School Learning Hub - 0 views

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    YIS Learning Hub using Google Apps and blogger (?) to give each student a blogging space as their portfolios.
Demetri Orlando

ePortfolio SlideShare by Helen Barrett - 1 views

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    Nice set of slides about the use of portfolios in education.
Demetri Orlando

TEDxNYed: Jeff Jarvis: This is BS - 0 views

  • Just as journalists must become more curator than creator, so must educators.
  • we need to move students up the education chain. They don’t always know what they need to know, but why don’t we start by finding out? Instead of giving tests to find out what they’ve learned, we should test to find out what they don’t know. Their wrong answers aren’t failures, they are needs and opportunities.
  • Google, he said, is looking for “non-routine problem-solving skills.
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  • “In the real world,” he said, “the tests are all open book,
  • We must stop looking at education as a product – in which we turn out every student giving the same answer – to a process, in which every student looks for new answers.
  • Why shouldn’t every university – every school – copy Google’s 20% rule, encouraging and enabling creation and experimentation, every student expected to make a book or an opera or an algorithm or a company
  • Rather than showing our diplomas, shouldn’t we show our portfolios of work as a far better expression of our thinking and capability?
  • education serves a unique role in society of preparing individuals for the “vital combat for lucidity”.
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    Jeff Jarvis's notes for his presentation at TEDxNYed in which he critiques the TED style as perpetuating the sage on the stage.
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