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
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.
“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”.