Transcript Learning Portfolio System

Experience
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Learning Portfolio System
A Web-Based Learning Environment
for STEP Pre-Service Teachers
“…powerful education requires that teachers
and principals be able to analyze and reflect
on their practice. Individually and with
others, they need to assess the effects of their
work and to refine and improve their
practice…”
Rachel Lotan
Learning Cycle
prepare
Experience
supervisor
director
mentors
photos
Share
C&I
peers
video
Capture
CT
docs
friends
Reflect
annotate
organize
catalog
select
audio
notes
Learning Cycle
prepare
Experience
supervisor
director
mentors
photos
Share
C&I
peers
video
Capture
CT
docs
friends
Reflect
annotate
organize
catalog
select
audio
notes
Learning Benefits
Save Time ~ Learn More
• Scaffolding for Deeper Reflections
• Facilitates Collaboration, Sharing and
Feedback
• Increased Learning Productivity and
Organization
Existing Portfolio Practices in STEP
• Face-to-Face community, with subgroups
sorted by subject and supervisor
• Docushare and web-server storage
repositories
• CD and Web deliverables
• Intense program with no “spare” time
• Assorted applications for processing
multimedia (PowerPoint, Word, iMovie…)
Issues and Challenges
Informant Design: Engaging current STEP
students and alumni from the beginning of the
design process …
Issues and Challenges
TJ (current STEP student):
“Organizing my video clips is the most
difficult challenge…I would like to be able to
look at my teaching from various perspectives
(activities, behaviors, by student, over
time…)”
Issues and Challenges
KM (STEP alum):
“Time is the biggest obstacle…and we would
benefit from more frequent sharing of our
work in progress…”
Issues and Challenges
KrM (Current STEP student):
“I use a paper journal to write my thoughts as
I go, but I wonder how I’ll find things later…”
Issues and Challenges
CM (STEP alum):
“It’s all about TIME…we were so busy, we’d
become isolated. Building the portfolio over
time so it is easily finalized in Spring would
be a great benefit…”
STEP Student Needs
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Save time
Help with being organized
Scaffolding for reflection
More opportunities to share & learn from
others in the STEP community
• On demand (just-in-time) technology
training for novices
Proposed Learning Portfolio System
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Web Accessible
Dynamic, Database Backend
Accepts a Variety of Multimedia Objects
Supports Interactive Asynchronous Review
and Discussion
• For Work-in-Progress Portfolios and
Culmination Portfolios of Exemplars
Design Method
• Informant and Learner Centric Design
• Research Review and Key Learning
Principles
• Reviewing Existing Tools & Alternatives
Key Learning Principles
• Metacognition
– “…learning is most effective when people engage in ‘deliberate
practice’ that includes active monitoring of one’s learning
experiences”.1
• Community of Learners
– “…based on the premise that learning occurs as people participate
in shared endeavors with others…”3
– “If we want portfolios to be more than an accidental sharing of
experiences, if we want the portfolio owners to get involved in each
other’s work we have to design for that. Peer assessment is one
approach…”2
Existing Alternatives / Tools
• Anchored, threaded discussion of video content.
– Could be used for discussion by community of an
example of teaching.
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Conversant Media www.krdl.org.sg/AboutUs/commercialisation/pdf-files/Conversant%20Media.pdf
Existing Alternatives / Tools
• Image Annotation
– Would allow for mark up and reference of more
complex examples of student work.
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GIS tool at MIT http://web.media.mit.edu/~jimbiz/ImageMap
Existing Alternatives / Tools
• Review Manager
– Tool currently used for managing multiple people
reviewing artifacts in a variety of media.
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Review Manager http://www.reviewmanager.com/home.asp
Learning Portfolio System - Concepts
Learning Portfolio System - Concepts
Learning Portfolio System - Concepts
Learning Portfolio System - Concepts