Ensuring Student SuccessAssessment Task One: Professional Development Package/Presentation

Tania Kerr, Erica Smith, Michael Smith, and Sarah Turner

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Digital  Portfolios

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Do you know?• What is a Digital Portfolio?

• How can it be used to support assessment and reporting?

Brainstorm

“Hello, synapses? Are you firing?”Make your brain more sociable - brainstorm with a friend!

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Do you know?• What is a Digital Portfolio?

• How can it be used to support assessment and reporting?

Friday, 2 August 13

Do you know?• What is a Digital Portfolio?

• How can it be used to support assessment and reporting?

Our  goal Before our 10 minutes is up, we want you to:

• Understand what a Digital Portfolio is through our definition

• Know how Digital Portfolios can support assessment and reporting

• Have key understandings of successful use of Digital Portfolios & some technologies that can be used

• Have a “spark” or desire to explore Digital Portfolios - imagine your future classroom!

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Digital  whats?Quite honestly, we didn’t know what a “digital

portfolio” was, either.

...Well, we had some ideas, but we had to do a lot of reading and research - Hence our choice in Complex

Reasoning Process, DoL 4 - Investigation.

We modelled our questions after those of Definitional Investigation (Marzano & Pickering, 1997, p. 236).

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• Collection of work samples

• Hard work!

• Showcase classroom activities

• A tick for ICT use

• Collection of resources for a topic

• I don’t know, something online?

Brainstorm When asked, people said:

Fun responses from our peers & friends:

Thanks to those who assisted!

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Our  definition

Our investigation and discussions lead us to our own definition - this was heavily influenced

by blogs, networking with schools & professionals, our own experiences, research, and texts.

Check out our Wiki for helpful links!

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DoL  4  -­  Investigation Digital portfolios are an electronic collection of

purposeful evidence that demonstrate a learning journey, which also supports the

assessment process for learning, and provides learners with opportunities to self-assess and reflect on their learning journey, as well as

communicating with and providing relevant evidence to appropriate stakeholders

(Barrett, 2011, Brady & Kennedy, 2012).Friday, 2 August 13

DoL  4  -­  Investigation

Digital Portfolios should:

Be an assessment FOR learning (not OF learning)

Remember that!

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Digital  Portfolio:  Looks  like?What exactly does a Digital Portfolio look like?

How do you imagine Digital Portfolios look, sound and feel? How would people interact

with them?

Think - Pair - Share

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Digital  Portfolio:  Looks  like?What exactly does a Digital Portfolio look like?

Do you use social networking sites?Did you post what you ate for breakfast on Facebook th is morning? Think of how connected the current generation going through school is right now - it’s quite possible that students in your Early Childhood classes have had an online presence since birth! Tweet that!

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Digital  Portfolio:  Looks  like?What exactly does a Digital Portfolio look like?

Do you use social networking sites?Did you post what you ate for breakfast on Facebook th is morning? Think of how connected the current generation going through school is right now - it’s quite possible that students in your Early Childhood classes have had an online presence since birth! Tweet that!

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Digital  Portfolio:  Looks  like?• Web 2.0 tools (Wiki, Blog, Website)

• Portable e-devices (iPod, iPad, iPhone, e-Readers, laptops, etc)

• Digital storage media (flash drives, CD-ROM, DVD, Portable Hard Drives, etc)

Technologies that could be used:

There are infinite possibilities, and as more technologies emerge, this field will continue expanding...

That’s why it’s important to be life long learners!

(You get to explore some of these tools in Managing e-Learning)

Do you have an example? Have you seen Digital Portfolios in use?Friday, 2 August 13

An  Example Digital Portfolio for learning: My story

http://visuallearningandinnovation.blogspot.com.auFriday, 2 August 13

An  Example Digital Portfolio for learning: My story

http://visuallearningandinnovation.blogspot.com.au

Reflective practice: Blogging•Assessment was to deliver a “Pecha Kucha”* style presentation on our own “innovative” artwork •Criteria was to research 3 artists from different art periods and incorporate elements into own artwork

*Pecha Kucha is a presentation style, where you have 20 slides which automatically transition every 20 seconds

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An  Example Digital Portfolio for learning: My story

http://visuallearningandinnovation.blogspot.com.au

•No words typically•About journey•Presentation/discussion•Sharing process•Evidence of learning•Self-assessment, reflection•Rewarding process

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Digital  Portfolio  101Remember: Digital Portfolios are used as an assessment FOR learning, not OF learning.

So, you want to use digital portfolios in assessment and reporting. Have you considered the logistics?

Using digital portfolios has great advantages, but there’s also a lot of considerations to make prior to embracing

the technology. You don’t want a digital disaster of clutter and files showcasing your student’s learning journey!

O’Rouke (2004) has a list of 10 key steps!

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Digital  Portfolio  101Remember: Digital Portfolios are used as an assessment FOR learning, not OF learning.

1- Clarify the purpose

2- Start small

3- Develop focus areas

4- Develop indicators for each focus area

5- Opportunities for goal setting, reflection, feedback and critique

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Digital  Portfolio  101Remember: Digital Portfolios are used as an assessment FOR learning, not OF learning.

6- Develop classroom management & organisation strategies

7- Continually clarify expectations with students

8- Plan logistics of technology provision

9- Develop whole school learning and change plan

10- Allow students to communicate with interested audiences

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Now, let’s get this straight...

It is not: It is:

Technology for ICT sake

Assessment for learning

Mandated artefacts

Dumping ground of work samples

Student’s expression of own journey

Communication and reporting tool

Has a purpose

An assessment OF learning:the understandings,

processes, skills or aptitudes

Digital  Portfolio  101

(Assessment Reform Group, 2002, Barrett, 2005)Friday, 2 August 13

Digital  Portfolio  101Dr. Helen Barrett (digital portfolio hero) says:

•Create an environment about participation!•Digital Folios should have Intrinsic Motivation - not “necessity”- this provides engagement

• {CQ + PQ} > IQ{Curiosity Quota + Passion Quota} > Intelligence Quota

Kids who are curious and passionate will achieve mastery over digital technologies, it is not a matter of intelligence.

What do you think?

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Digital  Portfolio  101Digital Technologies in the School:

Consider:

ACARA cross-curricular prioritiesTPACK (technology, pedagogy, content knowledge)Learning theories (connectivism, constructionism, etc)School policies and prioritiesFuture workplaces, learning environments, and technologies?Student needs

So, now you have a taste for Digital Portfolios!

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