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STEMx Conference Presentation
Exploring STEMx Competencies through
ePortfolios
Betty Hurley-Dasgupta, Ed.D., ProfessorSUNY Empire State College, New York
Poll
Please select the letter that best describes you:
A. Never used an ePortfolioB. Some experience with using ePortfoliosC. Already using ePortfolios with my
students
Future of eLearning and eTeaching….
Regarding the Global Achievement Gap (Tony Wagner, 2008)… the “Best schools” are not teaching or including in their curriculums the must have skills of the future which are:
Critical thinking and problem solvingCollaboration across networks and leading by influenceAgility and adaptability Initiative and entrepreneurialismEffective oral and written communicationAccessing and analyzing information Curiosity and imagination
•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
Churches, A. (2008). Blooms taxonomy blooms digitally. Retrieved from http://www.techlearning.com/article/8670
Deep and Surface Learning
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
Surface..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.)
Model for Learning
Helen Barrett Graphic- PLEs
https://sites.google.com/site/wheportfolios/home/resources-and-references/helen-barrett
Journaling
“Reflective journals have been employed by educators to deepen the quality of students learning by: (a) promoting critical thinking;
(b) encouraging a questioning attitude, enabling students to understand their own learning processes (metacognition); and
(c) strengthening active involvement in learning through personal ownership of the learning experience (Boud, 2001; Moon, 1999).
Reflective journaling has been shown to contribute to the exercise of voice(Peterson & Jones, 2001), and the narrative nature of journaling has been shownto contribute to development of a professional identity (Blevins, 2007; Redman, 2005).” Carter, T.J. & Marlowe, E. (2010) http://reflectivelearningwithdigitalmedia.pbworks.com/
Defining Critical Thinking
“Critical thinking is the intellectually disciplined process of actively and skillfully conceptualizing, applying, analyzing, synthesizing, and/or evaluating information gathered from, or generated by, observation, experience, reflection, reasoning, or communication, as a guide to belief and action.”
(Scriven & Paul, 1987)
PLE Visualized: From Private to Public. Nessman, S.L. (2008) http://www.flickr.com/photos/nessman/2590572476/
http://www.edtechpost.ca/wordpress/2008/06/18/my-ple-diagram/
Common Core and STEM Standards
Digital learners of the 21st century need skills for:
Critical ThinkingCommunicationInnovationCollaboration
ePortfolios Provide an Environment For…
Critical ThinkingCommunicationInnovationCollaboration
In Addition…
ePortfolios provide an environment for:
reflection (journaling) formative assessment learner-created work
Student Journal Example
Possible Providers
Google sites with Evernote or Blogger Weebly MaharaOthers: Digication, Wordpress, Epsilen,
PebblePad, etc.
Example of ePortfolio Page- Science
Example of ePortfolio Page
Mini-Course: Some Details
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Use of Rubrics
• Rubric for an ePortfolio page
• Rubric for a journal
• Community engagement rubric
Sample Profile Page
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References
• HP Academy Mini-course: http://catalyst-academy.org/course/exploring-stem-competencies-through-eportfolios/y
• Diigo page: https://groups.diigo.com/group/hp_eportfolios
• Public Mahara resource page: http://mahara.ecu.edu/view/view.php?id=115
• NOTE: slides available on SlideShare: http://www.slideshare.net/bhlawrence/presentations