Journal 11

Focus Question 2

How can teachers and students use digital portfolios as tools for learning?

Teachers for one can use digital portfolios to build on their teaching strategies by looking on their past instructional work. Students will become more proactive in the amount of involvement and learning of new ways of using technology to create and consequently build on their skills. 

Tech Tool 11.2

For individuals who wish to obtain information in efforts to conduct a study or research, SurveyMonkey offers an easy tool that could get the job done. This service facilitates individuals in finding a selective audience an individual seeks to answer specific questions in order to gather accurate results. Simply design the survey, select an audience, and once those have been established, wait for the results. Each completed survey, however, cost $1. Therefore, depending on which type of project or amount of people one anticipates to receive results from, SurveyMonkey may serve as a valuable resource.

In summary

When it comes to evaluating students, simply assessing their knowledge on any given material or skill through testing is perhaps the most daunting task to endure for some. However, the new and most effective method is through digital portfolios. Digital portfolios provide substantial evidence of what students have learned over a period of time. In addition, teachers can evaluate their own methods of teaching when they review the tools and strategies they have used to instruct their students. In essence, digital portfolios enables one to measure the learning development of each individual student which inevitably creates greater learning outcomes, for being able to assess the skills will be much more prevalent among them.

In the future, having the students design a digital portfolio will be an advantage to me as a teacher, for it tremendously aides in monitoring the student’s progress in my class. Simply testing students and measuring their knowledge of given materials lacks the personal touch. Digital portfolios displays true results in terms of what a student has learned as a result of applying the concepts they have learned. It is a gain the most evident means used to measure the growth of each student, and it serves as a unique tool for teachers to build or recreate lessons that will provide innovative ways to teach a lesson.