Tech Talk Tuesdays: Reflective eLearning Portfolios

Lenva Shearing, deputy Principal of Bucklands Beach Intermediate School, New Zealand, gave us a fabulous session on the pedagogy behind eLearning Portfolios and illustrated them with practical examples of her students’ work. If you are interested in learning portfolios (which all educators should be) then you must listen to the recording (see link below!). The New Zealand Curriculum Vision Statement states: “Students will need 21^st century skills to enable them to be confident, connected, actively involved lifelong learners”. Her school’s vision is: “To educate, guide and mentor all students to become internationally minded lifelong learners.” With this great introduction and a general discussion of the pedagogy behind eLearning Folios, Lenva then used application sharing to share with the participants some examples of student work. Thanks Lenva for a great session.

From the chat:

You are all invited to see what’s happening with our Australian VET Eportfolio Community of Practice at: https://sites.google.com/site/eportfoliocommunity/ we have a global group gathering
love the inquiry pathway!!
Peggy George: I’d be really interested in hearing about how you teach students (and teachers) to be reflective
this is a good place to start with the New Zealand maths curriculum http://www.nzmaths.co.nz/problem-solving
Have you seen the video Math: Who Needs it? It’s great!
never heard the term feed-forward! very descriptive
http://www.viddix.com allows two screens within one
that’s such a powerful testimony to the value on online work by students–they want to keep doing it over until it’s just right for them! 🙂
@coach_carole): We need to be mindful of prior experiences of school students as they move up to vocational training and universities – valuable learning here today from Lenva
http://www.bbi.school.nz/student/studentwork.html
Eportfolio conversation group –
Looks like they are spending time of giving valuable feedback and not preparing worksheets 🙂
Coach Carole how can we generate a holistic process for eportfolios fromthe cradle to the grave – a question we are pondering in our EpcoP
Lenva’s Cool tools for schools wiki http://cooltoolsforschools.wikispaces.com
http://gettingtrickywithwikis.wikispaces.com
some public eportfolios from our school