Chapter 11: Engaging Students in Performance Assessment and Reflective Learning

Focus Question:

How can teachers and students use digital portfolios as tools for learning?

 A digital portfolio is a collection of educational and professional materials that can be stored electronically.  It can benefit both teachers and students by helping keep the work that they have done in the past years safely organized. It can show how much improvement a person has made over time. You can go back and reflect on your work. Future teachers and teachers can use these portfolios to store activities or assignments for future classes, ideas, and job opportunities. It gives students and teachers a privilege to show off their work, and how they have improved themselves over time. It also gives a teacher or student time to reflect back on their work and see where they need to strengthen their weakness. It shows the your growth as a teacher and the growth of students as life long learners.

Credit to Flickr

 

 

 

Tool Tech

 

Digital Portfolio Video

This Presentation video can help you understand and show why its such an amazing tool. The digital portfolio can only benefit you. This video is helpful for those who don't know much about portfolio's. I found this video very helpful, since in the next near week I have to create on for my class. I never knew what it was and how helpful it can be for me.  There is many other sites that can also benefit and help us create our portfolios.

Credit to: ePortfolio by Dawn Corley

 

Chapter 11, showed students and teachers how it can be to our advantages that we can reflect on our assessments. Its a plus to have assessments that can help us as students and future teachers learn about our strengthen and weakness and help us be more successful in the near future. I learned in Chapter 11 that our performance evaluation from the work that we may have completed can help us strengthen our skills as learners and teachers.

Technology works to everyone advantage because it a powerful tool that can determine our performances. It can show us our work from years ago, and we can compare that to where we are today in our skills. Portfolios, that we can create online is one great way to show our assessments over the years. Its easy, ready to access at anytime. It displays our work, experience in developing technology skills, and being able to share our information/work with a wider educational community.

Many of the assessments that are made available to us can enable teachers to conduct quick assessments of what a student knows or may still need to learn about a topic. It integrates a more interesting way of learning rather than just reading a book or taking long test.

Our jobs as teachers and future teachers is to make classrooms more effective for students to want to learn, and continue with their education. Making our classroom more interesting can encourage students to want to participate and learn the material. Students of all ages can acknowledge that we care and that they have a opinion in their education and making a better school a better learning environment for them. Teachers can make the work load a lot less with these learning assessments and they can even make it a fun and non overwhelming way of teaching. We are here to make it better for our future  and current learners education better for them. Using tools that benefit us all makes it easier and fun for everyone.

 

 

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Resources:

Maloy, R. W., Verock-O, R. E., Edwards, S. A., & Woolf, B. P. (2010). Transforming learning with new technologies. Allyn & Bacon. 

 

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