3. WHAT IS TECHNOLOGY ENHANCED
LEARNING?
⢠TECHNOLOGY THAT ENHANCES THE LEARNING EXPERIENCE
⢠SUPPORT OF TEACHING AND LEARNING
⢠DIGITAL TEL â EDUCATIONAL SOFTWARE
⢠TEL TOOLS
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4. WHY?
⢠ALLOWS FOR LEARNERS TO ADJUST THE PACE OF THEIR LEARNING
⢠MORE RESOURCES ARE AVAILABLE
⢠MULTIMODAL â APPEALING TO DIFFERENT LEARNING STYLES
⢠LEARNING AS SOCIAL PRACTICE
⢠LEARNERS ARE ENGAGED INSTEAD OF PASSIVE
⢠PERSONALISED LEARNING
⢠FLEXIBLE PEDAGOGIES
⢠ASSISTIVE TECHNOLOGIES
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5. e Portfolios
Electronic portfolios eP
Professional portfolios
Digital portfolios
Digital Identity
⢠As assessment
⢠As identity
⢠As a story
6. What research shows?
Building Professional Self Identities (positive impact) â critical thinking â importance of
images and narrative
Coherent narrative of past, present and future
Expand on prior understandings and ways of being (Eliot and Turns, 2013; Nguyen, 2013;
Seifert and Chattaraman, 2016; Munday, Rowley and Polly, 2017)
Careers where a strong sense of identity is needed - eP emerged as a vehicle through which
identity is negotiated and constructed â future orientated thinking (learning in relation to
their future lives) â (Bennett, Rowley, Dunbar-Hall, Hitchcock and Blom, 2014)
External frame of reference â employers
Internal frame of reference - emerging realizations of their own values and interests â
identity creation
7. Narrative pedagogy
Identity is a life story (MacAdams, 1985)
âEmplotmentâ â making sense of the narrative identity created â the assembly of a
series of historical events into a narrative with a plot (McAlpine, 2005)
9. What should be included: (non
negotiable) Philosophy statement /
professional statement
CV / professional
qualifications
Photographs
Experiences: conferences and
community engagement etc
Any important
roles you have
fulfilled: leadership
etc
Selected artefacts:
documents, videos
and certificates
References