1. STEMx Conference Presentation
Exploring STEMx
Competencies through
ePortfolios
Betty Hurley-Dasgupta, Ed.D., Professor
SUNY Empire State College, New York
betty.hurley-dasgupta@esc.edu
2. Poll
Please select the letter that best describes you:
A. Never used an ePortfolio
B. Some experience with using ePortfolios
C. Already using ePortfolios with my
students
3. Future of eLearning and eTeaching….
Regarding the Global Achievement Gap (Tony Wagner, 2008)…
the “Best schools” are not teaching or including in their curriculums
the must have skills of the future which are:
Critical thinking and problem solving
Collaboration across networks and leading by influence
Agility and adaptability
Initiative and entrepreneurialism
Effective oral and written communication
Accessing and analyzing information
Curiosity and imagination
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
5. Churches, A. (2008). Blooms taxonomy blooms digitally. Retrieved from http://www.techlearning.com/article/8670
6. 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.)
8. Helen Barrett Graphic- PLEs
https://sites.google.com/site/wheportfolios/home/resources-and-references/helen-barrett
9. Journaling
“Reflective journals have been employed by educators to deepen the quality of students
learning by:
(a) promoting critical thinking;
(b) encouraging a questioning attitude, enabling students to understand their own learning
processes (metacognition); and
(c) strengthening active involvement in learning through personal ownership of the
learning experience (Boud, 2001; Moon, 1999).
Reflective journaling has been shown to contribute to the exercise of voice
(Peterson & Jones, 2001), and the narrative nature of journaling has been shown
to contribute to development of a professional identity (Blevins, 2007; Redman,
2005).”
Carter, T.J. & Marlowe, E. (2010) http://reflectivelearningwithdigitalmedia.pbworks.com/
10. 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)
PLE Visualized: From Private to Public. Nessman,
S.L. (2008) http://www.flickr.com/photos/nessman/2590572476/
http://www.edtechpost.ca/wordpress/2008/06/18/my-ple-diagram/
11. Common Core and STEM
Standards
Digital learners of the 21st century need skills for:
Critical Thinking
Communication
Innovation
Collaboration
