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Friday, February 25, 2005
TaskStream backs ePortfolio study - Corey Murray, eSchool News
Ask Helen Barrett of the University of Alaska College of Education how students feel about creating learning portfolios, and she'll tell you a story about a group of high school seniors in the Pacific Northwest who got together on graduation night and built a bonfire. After four years of chronicling their high school experience, the graduates met up not to celebrate their achievements, but to watch their work go up in smoke. For years, hundreds of high schools across the country have required exiting seniors to keep academic portfolios of everything from their resume to their favorite assignments and samples of their coursework. And for years, students have resisted, viewing the assignment as just another in a long line of requirements standing between them and graduation. But thanks to digital technologies and the internet, proponents of the portfolio as a pedagogical movement--including Barrett, who has spent more than a decade studying and promoting the use of electronic portfolios in schools--believe both students and teachers are warming up to the idea.
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