Why Digital Portfolio?

• Higher Goals of Education

  • It’s a university’s job to produce citizens who learn to think for themselves, not just humans who can be programmed to follow someone else’s code.

• Holly Clark

  • It is imperative that in 2015, students be able to curate, archive and expand on the work they are producing in class.

  • Today’s education must help students authentically learn important digital citizenship lessons.  

  • Education must help students to internalize the core subject as well as vital digital literacy skills such as creating their own digital web presence and learning to effectively and purposefully share their learning with the world. (Read More)

• Classify and Reclassify Information

  •          "The new education must teach the individual how to classify and reclassify information, how to evaluate its veracity, how to change categories when necessary, how to move from the concrete to the abstract and back, how to look at problems from a new direction — how to teach himself." (Herbert Gerjuoy)

• Keeping Learning on the Finger Tip

  • In this era, where the use of mobile and computers is extensive in schools and colleges, having digital portfolio is important for students. E-portfolios allow students to collect their work for future use. Students can easily curate, archive and analyse and keep their sample work for past as well as future learning on their figure tip. (Bharati) (Read More)

• Learning the Art of Reflection (Reflective Learning):

  • • when we let the process of curate > reflect > publish > archive > curate serve as the sole focal point, digital portfolios become summative in nature and are viewed as an add-on at the end of a unit, project, or activity.

      • For digital portfolios to be truly valuable to both teachers and students, they need to provide insight into not only what students created, but also how and why. If the ultimate goal is to develop students as learners, then they need an opportunity for making connections to content as well as the overarching learning objectives. (Holland) (Read more)

  • 11 Essentials for Excellent Digital Portfolios

    • • Guiding your students to get the most out of digital portfolios takes careful planning, and we have ideas to help you get started. (Read more)

• Why? - Asking Better Questions

  • • George Couros: So I am often frustrated when the first question that I hear regarding digital portfolios is about the technology, not the learning. “What platform should we use?” is usually the main focus, instead of, “How will this shape learning in our classrooms in a way that we are not doing currently?”

      • The simple shift here is having the learning shape what technology a student uses, not the technology shaping what learning can be done by the student.  Obviously, there is room for both as a “digital” portfolio can do many things that paper cannot (media, information over the years in one place and easily searchable, etc.). Read more....

References:

• Bharati, Prasanna. Retrieved from http://edtechreview.in/trends-insights/insights/1537-how-do-digital-portfolios-help-students

• Clark, Holly. Retrieved from http://edtechteacher.org/the-beginners-guide-to-creating-digital-portfolios-from-holly-clark-on-edudemic/

• Holland, Beth. Retrieved from http://www.edutopia.org/blog/digital-portfolios-art-of-reflection-beth-holland

  • Davis, Vicki. Retrieved from https://www.edutopia.org/blog/11-essentials-for-excellent-eportfolios-vicki-davis