Reflective Blog #3

Electronic Portfolios as Digital Stories of Deep Learning

This article discusses a major challenge in today's society with electronic portfolios to maintain learner intrinsic motivation to willingly engage in the portfolio process. I have listed the 10 principles below and will be discussing certain aspects of which principle of best relate to:
*AFL should be part of effective planning of teaching and learning.
*AFL should focus on how students learn.
*AFL should be recognized as central to classroom practice.
*AFL should be regarded as a key professional skill for teachers.
*AFL should be sensitive and constructive because any assessment has an emotional impact.
*AFL should take account of the importance of (and foster) learner motivation.
*AFL should promote commitment to learning goals and a shared understanding of the criteria by which they are assessed.
*AFL develops learners' capacity for self-assessment so that they can become reflective and self-managing.
*AFL should recognize the full range of achievement of all learners.
*Learners should receive constructive guidance about how to improve.

After reading all of these principles, I feel like I relate to several of them. If I were to choose one that I really relate to it would be learner's capacity for self-assessment so that they can become reflective and self-managing. Although I teach physical education, I am always trying to relate my lessons to what students can take with them into the real world. If they learn the task of self-assessment, then they will always be able to reflect upon their actions to see if they are making the correct decisions in their lives. I feel like portfolios are a great way for students to showcase their work and what they have learned. By assessing portfolios, this would be a great way to kind of transition from the normal test taking strategy. I think that portfolios would be a different way for students to be assessed, and students would want to try harder because other people would be able to view their work.


The creation and development of my own portfolio will help my learning because I can go back and reflect on the work that I have posted. I will be able to assess my work so that I can see how much I have learned throughout this course.