Participant Feedback

Thank you for attending our Learning beside your Students with Digital Portfolios. Please add your comments below about our session.

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Was it helpful for you? Did you learn anything new? Did you create a web page or blog?

Will you use tripod webpage or blog in the future for your own learning needs?

Suggestions for us during presentation?

Suggestions for our continued use of digital portfolios with UNM students?

Other comments..........

 

Worshop Schedule

Learning beside your Students with Digital Portfolios

-->Welcome & Introductions

-->Writing Prompt

-->Discussion of Portfolios, ownership of learning, reflection & creativity

-->Highlights of Tripod UNM student webpages

-->Overview of Tripod Basics

-->Practice with Tripod:Create your accounts, play and publish

-->Showcase your work

WRITING PROMPT

Please read the excerpt by Seymour Papert and post your comments below:

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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."  (Papert, 2010)

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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

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