Week 3: E-Portfolios and Deep Learning

The article was interesting in that it conveyed the multiple purposes of the e-portfolio as well as its original purpose, which was to provide the learner and the teacher with an individualistic, developemental tool in the learning process. It has become a skills checklist that is used to address state and program requirements. It was difficult to pick just one of the Assessment for Learning principles. There are two principles that stand out to me.

• AFL should take account of the importance of (and foster) learner motivation.
• AFL develops learners' capacity for self-assessment so that they can become reflective and self-managing.

I feel that it is imprtant to take into account learner motivation, especially todays learner and how different he/she may be from the learners of the past. Just like today's society is different, the student of today is different. The e-portfolio can address this in an individualist and constructivist manner. Also, isn't self-managing, self-reflective people what we want all of our student,s and children as well, to be now and in the future? These are the intrinsic, on-going learning elements that we want for our students.

There is great potential for portfolio assessment using these guidelines. These types of assessments would be great for art students. Of course, they are probably already doing this. Children are so "plugged in." This would be great for those kids that lose a lot of their work because it is online and always there. Also, there is so much room for individual creativity in this kind of practice.

I think that the creation of my own portfolio will definitely help me in the self-assessment as well as help me in my chosen career. I was a bit leary of wikis from other classes. Now that I created my own from scratch, it seems much easier. I am able to pass these skills and help students use them in their own individual way.