ePortfolios as Environments for Global engagement, deep Learning and Authentic Assessment

1. ePortfolios as Environments
for Global Engagement,
Deep Learning and
Authentic Assessment
Betty Hurley-Dasgupta, SUNY Empire State College
betty.hurley-dasgupta@esc.edu

2. Poll
Please select the letter that best describes you:
A. Never used an ePortfolio
B. Some experience with using ePortfolios
C. Already using ePortfolios with my
students

3. eGogy- The Hypothesis…
“There is a need to create an eGogy
by synthesizing learning theories and
adding in the learning needs of the 21st century
teacher and student, and that a new “gogy”
(beyond “andra and peda”) would be
foundational, and contain essential characteristics
to guide eteaching, elearning, and the co-creating
of personal learning environments.”
“eGogy” developed by Dr. M. Kaufmann (2011)
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4. II. Prior and New Knowledge on Learning…
"We must educate people on what nobody knew yesterday
and prepare people in our schools for what no one knows yet,
but what some people must know tomorrow."
“If the future is to remain open and free, we need people who can
tolerate the unknown, who will not need the support of completely
worked out systems or traditional blueprints from the past.”
Margaret Mead, PhD ,Anthropologist, 1901-1978
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5. •
Bloom, Benjamin S. Taxonomy of Educational
Objectives (1956). Published by Allyn and
Bacon, Boston, MA. Copyright (c) 1984 by
Pearson Education.
Anderson, L.W., and D. Krathwohl (Eds.)
(2001). A Taxonomy for Learning, Teaching
and Assessing: a Revision of Bloom's
Taxonomy of Educational Objectives.
Longman, New York.
Churches, A. (2008). Blooms taxonomy blooms digitally. Retrieved from
http://www.techlearning.com/article/8670
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6. Learning Environments
“Children must be taught how to think, not what to think.”
Welcome to My PLE! by a 7th Grader
Click Here
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YEls3tq5wIY&feature=related
Margaret Mead, PhD and Anthropologist
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7. Churches, A. (2008). Blooms taxonomy blooms digitally. Retrieved from http://www.techlearning.com/article/8670
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8. Defining Critical Thinking
“Critical thinking is the intellectually disciplined
process of actively and skillfully
conceptualizing, applying, analyzing, synthesizin
g, and/or evaluating information gathered from, or
generated
by, observation, experience, reflection, reasoning,
or communication, as a guide to belief and
(Scriven & Paul, 1987)
action.”
PLE Visualized: From Private to Public.
http://www.edtechpost.ca/wordpress/2008/06/18/my-ple-diagram/
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9. http://www.lifewisdominstitute.org/learningpyramid.html
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10. Deep and Surface Learning
Surface..
Deep..
Focus is on “what is signified”
Relates previous knowledge to new
knowledge
Relates knowledge from different
courses
Relates theoretical ideas to everyday
experience
Relates and distinguishes evidence and
argument
Organizes and structures content into
coherent whole
Emphasis is internal, from within the
student
Focus is on the “signs” (or on the
learning as a signifier of something
else)
Focus on unrelated parts of the task
Information for assessment is simply
memorized
Facts and concepts are associated
unreflectively
Principles are not distinguished from
examples
Task is treated as an external
imposition
Emphasis is external, from demands of
assessment
(Ramsden (1988), as cited in Atherton, 2005.)
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11. Authentic Learning…
The four themes supporting authentic learning are:
1. An activity that involves real-world problems and that mimics the work of
professionals; the activity involves presentation of findings to audiences beyond the
classroom.
2. Use of open-ended inquiry, thinking skills and metacognition.
3. Students engage in discourse and social learning in a community of learners.
4. Students direct their own learning in project work.
Service Learning in Our 21st Century
http://commons.esc.edu/servicelearning/
Rule, A. (2006). Editorial: The components of Authentic Learning. Journal of
Authentic Learning, Vol 3, (1), pp. 1-10.
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12. III. Future of eLearning and eTeaching….
Regarding the Global Achievement Gap … the “Best schools” are
not teaching or including in their curriculums the must have skills of
the future which are:
 Critical thinking and problem solving
 Collaboration across networks and leading by influence
 Agility and adaptability
 Initiative and entrepreneurialism
 Effective oral and written communication
 Accessing and analyzing information
 Curiosity and imagination
(Wagner , 2008)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NS2PqTTxFFc
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13. Personal Learning Environments
Eportfolios as PLEs
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14. ePortfolios Provide an
Environment For…
Critical Thinking
Communication
Innovation
Collaboration

15. In Addition…
ePortfolios provide an environment for:
 reflection (journaling)
 formative assessment
 learner-created work

16. Possible Providers
 Google sites with Evernote or Blogger
 Weebly
 Mahara
Others:
Digication, Wordpress, Epsilen, PebblePad, etc.

17. Example of ePortfolio Page- Science

18. Example of ePortfolio Page

19. Mini-Course: Some Details

20. Use of Rubrics
• Rubric for an ePortfolio page
• Rubric for a journal
• Community engagement rubric
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21. Sample Profile Page

22. References
• HP Academy Mini-course: http://catalystacademy.org/course/exploring-stem-competencies-througheportfolios/y
• Diigo page: https://groups.diigo.com/group/hp_eportfolios
• Public Mahara resource page:
http://mahara.ecu.edu/view/view.php?id=115
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23. Questions?
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24. Relevant Resources…
Authentic Learning in the 21st Century. by Lombardi, M. (2007) Educause
Learning Initiative.
A theory for eLearning. Moderator & Summarizer: Nichols, M. (2003) New
Zealand
Boomers, Gen-Xers & Millenials: Understanding the new students.
Oblinger, D. (2003) Educause Learning Initiative.
Connectivism: A learning theory for the digital age. Siemens, G. (2004)
Future of learning institutions in the digital age. By Davidson & Goldberg
(2009) MacArthur Foundation, MIT Press
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25. Resources….
AAEEBL
Designing online learning. (Culatta, 2011) (4:02 min)
http://www.instructionaldesign.org/index.html
George Siemens on the …..
The changing Nature of Knowledge (Siemens, 2007a) (3:33 min)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YMcTHndpzYg&feature=related
The conflict of learning theories with human nature. (Siemens, 2007b)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xTgWt4Uzr54&feature=related
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