New Mexico Society for Technology in Education (NMSTE)
Innovations in Leadership and Learning Conference
Marriott Pyramid, Albuquerque, NM April 23, 2010
Presenters: Daniel Tabor & Frances Vitali at http://nmste.wikispaces.com/Learning+Beside+your+students+with+Digital+Portfolios
NMSTE Program Schedule at http://nmste.wikispaces.com/NMSTE2010Program
Worshop Blog at https://fvitali.tripod.com/nmste/
Learning beside your Students with Digital Portfolios Workshop invites participants to explore student and teacher generated web pages as a way of maintaining their intellectual property during a course. Authentic UNM student digital portfolios will be showcased as well as discussion about participant needs of how digital portfolios could be advantageous to their learning, teaching and assessment. Participants will need to bring their own laptops to this session and will have time to create their own web page or blog using Tripod's free webhosting or ning.com social networking platform.
Participants will access tripod.com or ning.com to establish an account and begin to create their own webpage or blog. After a short tutorial of features and options, participants will have time to enter content. Workshop will end with a brief showcase of web pages or blogs created during the session.
NETS Standards
Facilitate and inspire student learning & creativity:
a. promote, support, and model creative and innovative thinking and inventiveness
c. promote student reflection using collaborative tools to reveal and clarify students’ conceptual understanding and thinking, planning, and creative processes
Design & develop digital-age learning experiences and assessments:
b. develop technology-enriched learning environments that enable all students to pursue their individual curiosities and become active participants in setting their own educational goals, managing their own learning, and assessing their own progress.
Seymour Papert reminds me of how important it is to be continually learning alongside my students in authentic teaching experiences.
On the importance of teachers learning alongside students.
"What we need is kinds of activity in the classroom where the teacher is learning at the same time as the kids and with the kids. Unless you do that, you'll never get out of the bind of what the teachers can do is limited by what they were taught to do when they went to school. And I think that's possible, and it's a different concept of what kind of educational kind of materials and activities should go into the school. It's in line with what I was saying before -- that we mustn't think only of, "Is this to be judged by what the kids learn?" We've got to say, "Judge it by what the whole system learns, (and) that includes the teacher." The teacher's got to be learning at the same time. And then with this robotics stuff, it's an example because ... every situation is unique. It's never been there before. And that's very different from the classroom situation where we're teaching math fractions. We've been there before. The teacher is not learning anything because the teacher knows that already. And this is a very bad situation for learning.
Again, one of my favorite little analogies: If I wanted to become a better carpenter, I'd go find a good carpenter, and I'll work with this carpenter on doing carpentry or making things. And that's how I'll get to be a better carpenter. So if I want to be a better learner, I'll go find somebody who's a good learner and with this person do some learning. But this is the opposite of what we do in our schools. We don't allow the teacher to do any learning. We don't allow the kids to have the experience of learning with the teacher because that's incompatible with the concept of the curriculum where what is being taught is what's already known." Seymour Papert on Project-Based Learning
Definition of Digital Portfolio
Multimedia collection of student work that showcases student skills and knowledge. Portfolios address essential questions: vision, purpose, audience, assessment, technology, logistics, culture (Jacobs, 2010, pp. 154-155).
UNM Class Portfolios
Children's Literature Class Webpage Collection at https://fvitali.tripod.com/443sp10.html
Children's Literature Class Blog at http://unm443.tripod.com/childlit/
Daniel Tabor at http://dtaborii.tripod.com/index.html
Educating Diverse Students at https://fvitali.tripod.com/315sp10.html
Educating Diverse Students Blogs at http://unm-farmington.tripod.com/315/
& http://unm-elds.ning.com/profile/FrancesVitali &
Research Seminar Course Web page at http://sites.google.com/site/unmpractitioners/
Research Seminar Blog at http://unmpractitioners.ning.com/
Practitioner Research Resource Blog at http://unm-farmington.tripod.com/590seminar/
UNM Teacher Education Portfolios at http://unm-farmington.webs.com/professionalportfolios.htm
Resources
Free Blog Hosting
Free Web Hosting
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http://www.tripod.com
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http://www.webs.com
References
Jacobs, H. H. (2010). (Ed.). Curriculum 21: essential education for a changing world. Alexandria , VA : ASCD. (www.ascd.org/)
Papert, S. (2010). Seymour Papert on project-based learning. Edutopia. Retrieved October 10, 2009, from http://www.edutopia.org/seymour-papert-project-based-learning#graph6