Digital Artifacts to Make Learning Visible: Using ePortfolios Effectively | Instructor TBA
One of the key questions in the world of schools is how one validates learning and student progress. Regardless of whether the system of measurement is a traditional grading system or a set of competency-based standards, providing evidence of learning is key to helping teachers help students and student to help themselves. Even schools that use Learning Management Systems (LMS) such as Canvas, Schoology, and Google Classroom will have submitted assignments, but they are often organized by assignment, acontent progression, rather than a discrete skills progression. There are ePortfolio tools that make this process much easier, permitting feedback for each learning artifact, classification systems, and mapping to specific skills. Encouraging students to post any evidence of learning to their portfolio significantly enhances a teacher’s understanding of their students and makes any kind of evaluative narrative very powerful since it can include actual evidence to support that narrative. This workshop is designed to work through the pedagogical foundations of ePortfolios by designing lessons that rely on them. With some experience, participants will be able to envision expanding that series of lessons to a course in which students will continuously provide evidence of learning for any content or skills goal one might define. Attendees will leave with a roadmap and specific examples of an ePortfolio strategy that can be implemented at no cost to the teacher, student, or the school.