“Open Portfolio” – Helping Makers Show Off Lifelong Learning

We know that hands-on, production-centered learning can lead to some amazingly deep learning experiences. But capturing and displaying what you’re learning & creating as a maker has not always been easy.

Tuesday June 24 from 10-11am PT (1-2pm ET), we discussed how/why the +Maker Education Initiative is developing a common set of practices for an open, decentralized, and distributed lifetime portfolio system for makers.

This webinar was part of a June series called “Looking Closely at Student Work in the Digital Age.” Check out all the details at http://bit.ly/lookingclosely

From this Series:

• Part 1—KQED “Do Now” – Youth Discussing Real Issues in Realtime
• Part 2—The Digital Influence on Looking Closely at Student Work

View the Conversation
During the broadcast, the conversation also took place on Twitter using the hashtag #connectedlearning.

Guests for this webinar included:

• Christian McKay – Doctoral student in Learning Sciences at Indiana University; Creativity Labs member
• Anna Keune – ‎Graduate Research Assistant at Indiana University; Creativity Labs member
• Hillary Kolos – Director of Digital Learning & Teen Programs at DreamYard
• Jessica Ross – Senior Practitioner Specialist working at Project Zero on the Agency by Design Project
• Stephanie Chang – Director of Youth Engagement, Maker Education Initiative
• Christina Cantrill – Senior Program Associate for the National Writing Project

Resources for this webinar:

• Overview for Project Zero: an educational research group investigating the nature of intelligence, understanding, thinking, creativity, ethics, and other essential aspects of human learning
• The Maker Education Initiative’s “Open Portfolio” project
• The Maker Education Initiative on Twitter (@MakerEdOrg)
• “Making Thinking Happen” – the process blog of Agency by Design, a multiyear research initiative of Project Zero
• Open Portfolio ‘Interest Form’
• Open Portfolio ‘Maker Site Survey’
• MIT Welcomes Makers with New Maker Portfolio
• Making Thinking Happen blog: “A Celebration of Learning”
• A Maker Education For Personal Social Change
• MakeSummer.org

Photos/Maker Education Initiative

#ConnectedLearning Discussion on Twitter