ePortfolios as Environmentsfor Global Engagement,

Deep Learning andAuthentic Assessment

Betty Hurley-Dasgupta, SUNY Empire State College

betty.hurley-dasgupta@esc.edu

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

eGogy- The Hypothesis…

“There is a need to create an eGogy by synthesizing learning theories and adding in the learning needs of the 21st century teacher and student, and that a new “gogy” (beyond “andra and peda”) would be foundational, and contain essential characteristics to guide eteaching, elearning, and the co-creating of personal learning environments.”

“eGogy” developed by Dr. M. Kaufmann (2011)3

II. Prior and New Knowledge on Learning…

"We must educate people on what nobody knew yesterday

and prepare people in our schools for what no one knows yet,

but what some people must know tomorrow."

“If the future is to remain open and free, we need people who can tolerate the unknown, who will not need the support of completely worked out systems or traditional blueprints from the past.”

Margaret Mead, PhD ,Anthropologist, 1901-1978 4

•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

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Learning Environments

“Children must be taught how to think, not what to think.”

Margaret Mead, PhD and Anthropologist

Welcome to My PLE! by a 7th Grader Click Here

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YEls3tq5wIY&feature=related

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Churches, A. (2008). Blooms taxonomy blooms digitally. Retrieved from http://www.techlearning.com/article/8670

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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)

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PLE Visualized: From Private to Public. http://www.edtechpost.ca/wordpress/2008/06/18/my-ple-diagram/

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http://www.lifewisdominstitute.org/learningpyramid.html

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.)

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Authentic Learning…

The four themes supporting authentic learning are:

1. An activity that involves real-world problems and that mimics the work of professionals; the activity involves presentation of findings to audiences beyond the classroom. 2. Use of open-ended inquiry, thinking skills and metacognition. 3. Students engage in discourse and social learning in a community of learners. 4. Students direct their own learning in project work.

11Rule, A. (2006). Editorial: The components of Authentic Learning. Journal of Authentic Learning, Vol 3, (1), pp. 1-10.

Service Learning in Our 21st Century http://commons.esc.edu/servicelearning/

III. Future of eLearning and eTeaching….

Regarding the Global Achievement Gap … 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

(Wagner , 2008) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NS2PqTTxFFc 12

Personal Learning Environments

Eportfolios as PLEs

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ePortfolios Provide an Environment For…

Critical ThinkingCommunicationInnovationCollaboration

In Addition…

ePortfolios provide an environment for:

reflection (journaling) formative assessment learner-created work

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

Questions?

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Relevant Resources…

Authentic Learning in the 21st Century. by Lombardi, M. (2007) Educause Learning Initiative.

A theory for eLearning. Moderator & Summarizer: Nichols, M. (2003) New Zealand

Boomers, Gen-Xers & Millenials: Understanding the new students. Oblinger, D. (2003) Educause Learning Initiative.

Connectivism: A learning theory for the digital age. Siemens, G. (2004)

Future of learning institutions in the digital age. By Davidson & Goldberg (2009) MacArthur Foundation, MIT Press

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AAEEBL

Designing online learning. (Culatta, 2011) (4:02 min)

http://www.instructionaldesign.org/index.html

George Siemens on the …..

The changing Nature of Knowledge (Siemens, 2007a) (3:33 min)http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YMcTHndpzYg&feature=related

The conflict of learning theories with human nature. (Siemens, 2007b)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xTgWt4Uzr54&feature=related

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Resources….