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Chess Club – noon

Dorothy reading with Mrs. Rupnik’s class

Table Tennis at 3:15pm

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How Do Digital Portfolios Help Students?

Global Digital Citizen Foundation

How Do Digital Portfolios Help Students?

Digital portfolios, e-portfolios or web folios are the same as traditional portfolios only its presentation format differs. The content of a digital portfolio is presented in a digital format. Digital portfolios are the best way of displaying students’ achievements.

It means students can save their work in the form of a web page, CD or disk. Kids respond better when they’re able to share their work because they have a valid audience and it does not go onto the pile on the teachers’ desk. Kids today can create and share their work with the world through digital portfolios; they have an authentic audience who will not only read it, but also care about it.

Why Digital Portfolios are Important for Students

In this era, where the use of mobile and computers is extensive in schools and colleges, having digital portfolios 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 at their fingertips.

How Do Digital Portfolios Help Students?

Digital portfolios have the great capacity to impact students’ learning.  Now the question is, how do digital portfolios help students? We took this question to LinkedIn and asked a number of educators.

“I would then add that keeping a portfolio also helps you reflect about that ‘professional brand’ … in other words it can be a tool for self-reflection. In that sense it is not used to simply ‘show off’. Thinking about and looking back at what you have done and are doing helps define your interests and come up with new goals that are aligned with your learning path/life.”

If the portfolio exposes all of this (in the sense of ‘professional branding’) to an audience (a mentor, teacher, peer, possible future employee, …) that would then interact with you as a student on this, the self-reflective process would become more interesting as your identity, seen from a sociological point of view, is ‘constructed’ through social interaction”, says Learning Experience Director at The LearnScape, Filip Daniel.

Here are some of the other best replies:

  • Having a digital portfolio helps students to brand themselves based on the skills that they want to showcase to potential employers or school administrators. At the very least, having a digital portfolio is a starting point for a dialogue with people that are interested in the same field/industry or can contribute to knowledge sharing.
  • Digital portfolios allow for practicing digital citizenship, become Googled with educational, share quality projects for college entrance, provide authentic connections outside the classroom, show understanding etc.
  • Portfolios help students develop a sense of belonging and to own their learning. I think their power goes beyond helping students document their work and learning experience. Their historical value has an immense impact on curriculum design and evaluation, as well as in the documentation of Approaches to Teaching and Learning. We are living in times where the sense of authorship is a must, when the information ‘that needs to go in books’ will be outdated by the time it is published, so portfolios give us an edge on that.
  • The most important value of a digital portfolio is the intrinsic boost to a student’s self-confidence. They can clearly see their own accomplishments. That self-confidence is a key to the student’s future success.
  • To focus the question a bit, in the higher education context keeping a collection of written work and associated research via blog or portfolio can be an excellent way to introduce technical skills that may not be addressed in other courses, e.g. basic coding by introduction to markdown, etc.

tools for digital portfolios

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Posted March 24, 2015 by mcguirp in category SAN Today

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