Reflection Blog #4

AFL Principle:

                After reading, Electronic Portfolio as Digital Stories of Deep Learning, the tenet I most relate to is AFL develops learners’ capacity for self-assessment so that they can become reflective and self-managing. One of the goals I have for my students is for them to become lifelong learners. If they are to become lifelong learners they have to have the capability of being self-managing. They need to know how to assess their learning to determine how they learn, what they have learned, and what they want to learn or need assistance with. This enables them to reflect on their learning daily, and this helps them to create their own educational goals. This skill will be helpful to them throughout their lifetime to continuously monitor their own learning. 

Portfolio Assessment:

            I see portfolio assessment as having the potential to build students’ ability to evaluate their learning. Portfolio assessment has the ability to enable students to take charge of their own learning. Instead of having to take a multiple choice test students get to display their work through a variety of activities they create. They also get to use critical thinking skills when creating their work and they can display it all in one portfolio. Displaying their work through this portfolio has the potential of enabling students to go back and look through their portfolio to reflect on their own learning.  I think the development of my own portfolio will help me to do the same. I can constantly go back and view the artifacts I have created within this course. I can also add artifacts I have created in other courses. I can go back and reflect on what I have learned, and I can decide what activities I have done that I can use with my own students in my class. I can also go back and improve what I have done when I learn something new. I can constantly go back and reflect on what I have learned because all of my work will be in one place with the creation of this portfolio. I can also create my own learning goals by reflecting on what I learned, how I learned it, and what I still want to learn.