e-Portfolios
The article I read on e-Portfolios gave me an insight into the different types of e-Portfolios and how each could be used in education. It looked at them from a artist portfolio standpoint but I don't think this made it any less relevant. The 3 types of e-Portfolio looked at were:
- Showcase e-Portfolios
- Structured e-Portfolios
- Learning e-Portfolios
Each of the types above have specific rationales for their use but aspects of them could definately be used in DCG. The type of software used to create these e-Portfolios was important as feedback and review is very important to them being effective in helping the pupils learn.
Connectivism
Connectivism was a lot more complicated than I had expected. It basically looks at learning as, instead of being an internal process, it is process of making connections and networking information. It looks at knowing where to find information as a type of knowledge. A mind boggling fact I read in the connectivism article was that half that was known in 2004 was not known in 1994 and that the current rate of knowledge acquisition is that instead of doubling every 10 years it is doubling every 18 months! It's for this reason that connectivism looks at how to find knowledge as being almost more important than actually knowing it yourself.
e-Learning
This article spoke about the development and evolution of e-Learning in our society. It was really interesting and agreed with a lot of the things I think able e-Learning. Its main point was that e-Learning software should provide the pupils with a platform rather than an application. There were two sentences that stood out for me, they were:
"File-sharing, for example, evolves not of a sudden criminality among today's youth but rather in their pervasive belief that information is something meant to be shared" (Downes, 2005)
"Sharing content is not considered unethical;indeed; the hoarding of content is viewed as antisocial" (Downes, 2005)
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