Tony Wagner of Harvard University says that the cheapest way for schools to help students is: Set up digital portfolios.

Wagner says, “The world doesn’t care about your test scores. What the world cares about is what you can do with what you know.”

Here is a photo of a presentation in the Fraser School video GO TO Fraser ... Presentations can be displayed in Portfolios

Pathbrite interview

The single most important thing you could do tomorrow for little to no money is have every student establish a digital portfolio where they collect their best work as evidence of their skills. Where they’re working with their teachers and other adults to present their best work, to iterate their best work, so that they actually have real progress they can show. -- Tony Wagner Seven Survival Skills

Portfolios by students on display at High Tech High CLICK HERE

What goes into a portfolio?

Youtube performances (presentations)

Links to articles that you have edited on Wikipedia and WikiHow

Your Blog(s)

School work

websites that you have created

Your online business (Shopify??)

For more ideas...

You can read the free ebooks to learn more...

Click here to see the index of DIGITAL PORTFOLIOS at High Tech High Schools

See a portfolio designed and maintained by a teacher

TEACHERS: The Center for Projects (CPPP) is collecting links to PORTFOLIOS.

a) do you have a project that you like?

b) do your students have projects that they are proud of?

c) do you have a portfolio?

d) do your students have portfolios that they would like to share?

CLICK HERE

This screenshot shows the list of digital portfolios that students have created at High Tech High school.

This is an example of a portfolio that is "private" and available only for the student and the teacher to look at.

Would you like to bring projects to your school?

Get a free "CPPP KIT" <<<< Start a Center for Projects in your school

Free ONLINE COURSE Free Materials>>>> CPPP Folder

There are three modes of instruction: 1) self-paced or Computer Assisted Instruction, 2) project or problem-solving and 3) discussion.

--- Abraham S. Fischler

The Digital Portfolio (website) stores the results from the presentation and the presentation... and highlights from the discussion (including comments that are posted) appear in the student's Digital Portfolio