core education breakfast seminar: eportfolios
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CORE Education Breakfast Seminar in Wellington, March 11, 2011.Smart portfolio assessment is noted as one of UNESCO's 10 Global Trends in ICT and Education. So what is an eportfolio and what purpose do they serve? What do they look like in action? Do I need a proprietary system? Should they include all aspects of a student's life? What about eportfolios and National Standards? This CORE breakfast session will :- Introduce the use of eportfolios for students to capture learning and ongoing reflection and feedback - Examine professional eportfolios for teachers as they inquire into the impact of their teaching- Discuss the potential benefits of eportfolios- Outline the process of what eportfolios look like when supporting learning- Look at different tools for eportfolios and how you might go about choosing the best for your school- Ask some big picture questions to facilitate discussion regarding the implementation of eportfolios This session will be particularly useful for school leaders and classroom practitioners, those with responsibility for developing and supporting the implementation of eportfolios within schools, advisers working with schools on authentic assessment practices and professional development and learning facilitators looking at implementing professional eportfolios for teaching staff.TRANSCRIPT
Step 1: Research
• understand the pedagogy
• read the literature
• talk to the experts
• view eportfolios
• best practice visits
• network with practitioners
...working with parents and caregivers as
key partners who have unique knowledge of their children and countless
opportunities to advance their children’s
learning.
The New Zealand Curriculumhttp://flickr.com/photos/todbaker
The New Zealand Curriculumhttp://flickr.com/photos/torres21/
Students learn as they engage in
shared activities and
conversations with other people...
...all students should develop strategies
for self-monitoring and
collaborative evaluation of their performance in relation to suitable
criteria.The New Zealand Curriculumhttp://flickr.com/photos/torres21/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/bz3rk/
Schools should explore not only how
ICT can supplement traditional ways of
teaching but also how it can open up new
and different ways of learning.
The New Zealand Curriculum
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Developing students’ assessment capabilities
Michael Absolum, Evaluation Associates Ltd, Auckland
Lester Flockton, University of Otago
John Hattie, University of Auckland
Rosemary Hipkins, New Zealand Council for Educational Research
Ian Reid, Learning Media Ltd http://assessment.tki.org.nz/
Directions for Assessment in New Zealand
...young people should be educated in ways
that support them to assume control of
their own learning and that they can only do this if they develop the
capability to assess their own learning.http://flickr.com/photos/torres21/
Directions for Assessment in New Zealand
...assessment’s primary function is to support
learning by generating feedback
that students can act upon in terms of where they are going, how they are going, and where they might go next.
http://flickr.com/photos/torres21/
Directions for Assessment in New Zealand
Parents and the wider school community will also need to get better at
understanding assessment
information and interpreting it in
ways that support learning...
http://flickr.com/photos/torres21/
http://www.cognitioninstitute.org
Student Led Conferences: How effective are they...?
Effective reporting systems will be ones where
‘student voice’ is an integral part of the reporting process.
Digital Portfolios for Teachers
...a mechanism for both collecting evidence of
thinking and action and as a means of stimulating and supporting further
professional development
through group discussion and
critique.
http://flickr.com/photos/torres21/
http://www.teacherscouncil.govt.nz/
Registered Teacher Criteria
Evidence of professional practice that
meets the criteria will need to be
provided to the teachers’ professional leaders...
http://www.educationcounts.govt.nz
Teacher Professional Learning and Development
Teachers also need to develop the self-regulatory skills that will enable
them to monitor and reflect on the
effectiveness of changes they make to their practice.
...evidence from research and from
their own past practice and that of
colleagues to plan teaching and learning opportunities...
The New Zealand Curriculum
http://myportfolio.school.nz/moderation/
...a fully electronic resource for teachers to use
while moderating the judgment of a
student's work with a person, group
or cluster of people.
http://myportfolio.school.nz/moderation/
Helen Barrett, 2011
...we can best use mobile devices in the
Workspace portfolio, to capture learning and reflect contemporaneously (in the middle of the learning process)...
http://www.flickr.com/photos/ari/
http://blogs.forbes.com/danschawbel/2011/02/21/5-reasons-why-your-online-presence-will-replace-your-resume-in-10-years/
If you don’t have an online presence, you won’t appear to be
relevant and you will be passed over for more savvy applicants that have
visibility.
http://blogs.forbes.com/danschawbel/2011/02/21/5-reasons-why-your-online-presence-will-replace-your-resume-in-10-years/
Step 2: Define
Clearly define your:
• purpose
• vision and beliefs
• audience
• alignment with broader school vision and
beliefs
• benefits
“An e-portfolio is an electronic format
for learners to record their work,
their achievements and their
goals, to reflect on their
learning, and to share and be
supported in this.”
Banks, 2004
“...ideas of what an e-portfolio 'is' are complex and to an extent the
definition and purpose will vary
depending on the perspective from which a particular person is approaching the concept...”
JISC ePortfolio Infokithttp://www.flickr.com/photos/darthdowney/
http://edtalks.org/video/eportfolios-just-good-old-fashioned-sharing
TheShowcaseePortfolio
TheAccountability
ePortfolio
TheProcess
ePortfolio
www.flickr.com/photos/96dpi
Process ePortfolio: Supports students towards achieving their learning goals.
www.flickr.com/photos/viernesthttp://flickr.com/photos/torres21/
Showcase ePortfolio: Celebrates learning outcomes & shows the highest level of achievement.http://www.flickr.com/photos/an_untrained_eye
Accountability ePortfolio: Documents learning for achievement of specific outcomes or standards.http://www.flickr.com/photos/cristic/
Process Showcase
Accountability
showcas
e
http://www.flickr.com/photos/gifrancis
Ian Fox 2008
The power of ‘student voice’ should not be underestimated. To hear students
reflecting on their own work, in their own voice, with their own intonations and expressions, conveys meaning in a manner that
is simply not possible in written form.
http://flickr.com/photos/torres21/
The benefits...
...the social networking potential of the learning landscape and eportfolio-
related tools are features that facilitate
and enhance the making of
connections and the linking together
of people, ideas, resources and
learning...Tosh et al., 2006
“...it is the quality, not just the
quantity, of feedback that merits our closest attention.”
Sadler, 1998http://flickr.com/photos/torres21/
“...supporting the general process of reflection, self-evaluation and action
planning for lifelong learning...”MOSEP 2007
“...students can literally carry their
eportfolio around with them and update
it at any time in any place.”
MOSEP, 2007
http://edtalks.org/video/eportfolios
Step 3: Consult
Seek input from all stakeholders:
• students
• teachers
• school leadership
• curriculum leaders, HODs
• parents
• BoT
• providers
Staff
BOTSchool
Management/Leadership
Parents
ePortfolios
Expertise
Students
Shaping your ePortfolio beliefs
Step 4: Framework
• an ongoing process for eportfolio
construction
• reinforces purpose and beliefs
• aligned to a pedagogical approach
• relationship to formal processes e.g.
reports, achievement, appraisal,
registration...
“...to define e-Portfolios as a process, rather than just a product or a technological system.
Attwell, 2007
Burke, Fogarty & Belgrade (1994)
CollectSelectReflectProject
Project purpose
Collect & organise
Select learning
Interject personality
Reflect metacognitively
Inspect to self-assess
Perfect & evaluate
Connect & conference
Inject/Eject personality
Respect accomplishments
http://flickr.com/photos/torres21/
Processes
Exemplars, creating LI, SC, matrices/rubrics
Learning artifact
embedded in portfolio
Feed back, feed forward & reflection/self
assessment
Students working towards new goals in their learning
Celebrating success and achievement
Feed back, feed forward & reflection/self
assessment
1st draft of writing
story board
brainstorm
teachers
peers
self
family
Learning artifact
embedded in portfolio
“finished” example
2nd draft
video
ePortfolio Learning Cycle
Exemplars, creating LI, SC, matrices/rubrics
Students working towards new goals in their learning
Learning artifact
embedded in portfolio
Feed back, feed forward & reflection/self
assessment
ePortfolio Professional Learning Framework
BES Teacher Professional Learning and Development
ePortfolio
ePortfolio
ePortfolio
ePortfolio
ePortfolio
ePortfolio Professional Learning Network
Moderation Mentoring
Expertise
Sharing
Networking
Step 5: Criteria
• clarifying the capability required in the
eportfolio tool
What capability do you need to make this happen?
Moderation Mentoring
Expertise
Sharing
Networking
MOE: Digital Portfolios - Guidelines for Beginners
http://nickrate.com/2008/05/26/eportfolio-criteria/
Step 6: Tool
The dimensions...
The Dedicated
The Managed
The Blogged
The Mashed
The Saved
The Integrated
http://nickrate.com/2010/12/13/dimensions-and-dashboards/
Step 7: Educate
Students, teachers, parents, mentors,
coaches:
• pedagogy
• giving effective feedback
• setting goals
• reflecting and self-assessing
• technical how to’s
Step 8: Implement
• get your eportfolios up and running and
integrated into teaching and learning
Step 9: Update
• digital literacy, internet use policies and
user agreements
• reporting and assessment guidelines and
procedures
• appraisal and teacher registration process
Step 10: Review
• what have you done?
• what progress have you made?
• what are your key lessons?
• what are you next steps?
The 10 step plan of attack...
Research read the literature, talk to experts, view eportfolios, best practice visits
Define clarify and align your purpose, vision, beliefs, audience
Consult with your students, teachers, leadership teams and parents
Framework a process linking the pedagogy/andragogy to the eportfolio
Criteria list the functionality required for your eportfolio tool
Tool trial, observe, question, rate and select the best tool or tools
Educate training in use of new technologies, giving feedback and change
Implement roll out the system to intended group of students and/or teachers
Update assessment & digital literacy policies, guidelines & agreements, appraisal
Review identify progress, key lessons and next steps
Should an eportfolio include all aspects of a student’s life and learning?
www.flickr.com/photos/pasq
What happens when a student leaves school? Transfers? Moves to a new class?
www.flickr.com/photos/bigtallguy
Who owns the eportfolio?
www.flickr.com/photos/sveinhal
Are your eportfolios open to the world?
www.flickr.com/photos/willfuller
Are your parents and teachers ready? Is the principal?
http://flickr.com/photos/torres21/
Do your current policies cater for eportfolios and use of Web 2.0 tools?
Will your eportfolios play a role in reporting achievement against the National Standards?
Is one eportfolio system enough or should you use a mash-up of tools?
www.flickr.com/photos/diathesis
Is it important for eportfolios in your school to have a consistent look and feel?
http://www.flickr.com/photos/cobalt/
www.flickr.com/photos/raigverd/
Should your school expect the teachers to have a reflective eportfolio just as the students do?
http://flickr.com/photos/torres21/
Should students and teachers use the same tool for their eportfolios?
Join the discussions on the MLE Reference Group: http://groups.google.com/group/mle-reference-group/
Read MOE ePortfolio Guidelines: http://goo.gl/dbBR8
Watch the videos: http://edtalks.org/tag-keyword/eportfolios
Ian Fox: http://www.foxedu.co.nz
Helen Barrett: http://electronicportfolios.org/
Follow Jamin Lietze’s Journey: http://lietze.org/
Other people to know: http://eportfoliosnz.wikispaces.com/ePortfolio+Network
Twitter: #eportfolios
Where to next?