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5 Essential Questions About ePortfolios - Getting Smart by Susan Lucille Davis - edchat... - 18 views

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shared by dawn pendergrass on 14 Jul 12 - No Cached
    • smithfraney
      smithfraney on 07 Aug 12
       
      Look twitter!
  • digital portfolios could be used as a “parking lot”
    • smithfraney
      smithfraney on 07 Aug 12
       
      Interesting concept.
    • dawn pendergrass
      dawn pendergrass on 07 Aug 12
       
      for college applications or the parking lot?
    • rcusteau3
      rcusteau3 on 07 Aug 12
       
      If students have a choice they will be motivated.
    • dawn pendergrass
      dawn pendergrass on 07 Aug 12
       
      Yes, yes and yes.  I think that is why students really buy into the portfolio process.  They get to choose!!
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    • bedlingtongirl
      bedlingtongirl on 07 Aug 12
       
      wow!
    • dawn pendergrass
      dawn pendergrass on 07 Aug 12
       
      so easy to do.......www.wordle.com....if you've never seen it.  :)
    • Laurie Sevigny
      Laurie Sevigny on 07 Aug 12
       
      We hope this is the case that the portfolio is owned by the students w/sharing w/ others
    • dawn pendergrass
      dawn pendergrass on 07 Aug 12
       
      This idea -- the students need to take ownership, sift through their learning and make sense of their triumphs and challenges.  We feel that this is a VERY meaningful learning experience.
    • Mary Bellavance
      Mary Bellavance on 07 Aug 12
       
      Amen!
    • Laurie Sevigny
      Laurie Sevigny on 07 Aug 12
       
      One of the most important aspects for us about portfolios is that reflection happens - putting portfolio together is not just making a checklist - it is thinking about your learning - the metacognition.
    • Mary Bellavance
      Mary Bellavance on 07 Aug 12
       
      Great question!
    • jkelly72
      jkelly72 on 07 Aug 12
       
      Good idea!
    • hmclean
      hmclean on 07 Aug 12
       
      I agree
    • Laurie Sevigny
      Laurie Sevigny on 07 Aug 12
       
      The audience should be defined ahead of time so students can develop the portfolio w/this audience in mind
    • Martha Vignola
      Martha Vignola on 07 Aug 12
       
      authentic audience, yes
    • Laurie Sevigny
      Laurie Sevigny on 07 Aug 12
       
      Pre teach HOW TO curate and organize, maybe develop a template for this - but then it is up to the student to take this on - it is their work
    • Martha Vignola
      Martha Vignola on 07 Aug 12
       
      Display an exemplar (teacher made)
    • bedlingtongirl
      bedlingtongirl on 07 Aug 12
       
      Move student from passive learner to active learner. Making authentic meaning of their respective learning, student directed, not teacher lead...
    • Martha Vignola
      Martha Vignola on 07 Aug 12
       
      I agree.
    • dawn pendergrass
      dawn pendergrass on 07 Aug 12
       
      One of the BEST parts of my job!!!  
    • dawn pendergrass
      dawn pendergrass on 07 Aug 12
       
      Holy Cow!  Now I think that I need to create my own digital portfolio!  Yikes.  This may cause some marital strife ;)  I tend to dive into these things and then not come up for air until I am done and it is perfect.
    • bedlingtongirl
      bedlingtongirl on 07 Aug 12
       
      Yes!! Can't wait to try it so I can show my students.
  • What is the teacher’s role?
    • Nancy Grose
      Nancy Grose on 07 Aug 12
       
      Creating a personal portfolio as an exemplar to model for students would be a way to guide students' learning
    • dawn pendergrass
      dawn pendergrass on 07 Aug 12
       
      That is great!  I kept my portfolio from ETEP and have often shown them my own portfolio.  But perhaps creating my own writing portfolio would be helpful and show that this is something that writers do -- not just students.
  • in other words, a place for gathering all of one’s academic, artistic, athletic, or other achievements from kindergarten to twelfth grade.
    • smithfraney
      smithfraney on 07 Aug 12
       
      As a content area teacher, I use e-portfolios in place of lab notebooks.  All the students lab reports are housed in a digital setting.  So my goals and vision for e-portfolios are much more singular.
    • Laurie Jacques
      Laurie Jacques on 07 Aug 12
       
      Something our district is looking at doing. Spotty digital portfolios now. MYP and IB require reflection!
    • Laurie Sevigny
      Laurie Sevigny on 07 Aug 12
       
      Some students will take the bull by the horns and make the most of the features of the portfolio process and program. Of course others will just go through the motions to get it done. Either way, the process of creating is what's important - the generation of a body of work that the student will consider and the process of accomplishing the task as well.
    • Susan Dee
      Susan Dee on 07 Aug 12
       
      This is my concern with moving in the direction of an ePortfolio. I've seen this happen with "paper" portfolios time and time again. Lots of work is put into it and when it's finished parents see it as a "keepsake" and still want a "grade". How do we change this culture? How do we assist parent and administrators.
seth_mitchell

The dumbest generation? No, Twitter is making kids smarter - The Globe and Mail - 1 views

www.theglobeandmail.com/...article14321886

technology collaboration authentic audience writing achievement

shared by seth_mitchell on 11 Nov 13 - No Cached
  • And here’s the thing: He wrote that at the age of 14, in his spare time, at a point when the longest assignment he ever had in school was maybe 500 to 1,000 words. What motivated him? Other gamers. He had written a little bit of the guide and put it online – when he started getting e-mails saying how much other players liked it, were using it and asking when he was going to complete it.
  • Part of what makes the online environment so powerful, as Prof. Lunsford says, is that it provides a sense of purpose: “[Students are] writing things that have an impact on the world – that other people are reading and responding to.
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