How to Create a Portfolio with Evernote (Education Series)

Bio Rob is a teacher at Trillium Charter School in Portland, where he primarily instructs students aged 8-11. He has been working to develop online portfolios with students for the past six years and has taught in private schools, traditional public schools and public charter schools for the past 15 years. I use Evernote, Everywhere: iPhoneiPod TouchiPadMacWindows E-Portfolios: a student’s project warehouse and progress tracker I started teaching 15 years ago and that is when I first came across this concept of a ‘portfolio.’ Initially, I had my students create paper portfolios. We had a bin where we’d put these documents and at the end of the year, they’d have 10-20 pieces that they’d take with them into the next school year. After spending years with paper portfolios, I’ve transitioned this concept into digital form, and have started to implement Evernote as the primarily system for creating portfolios in my classroom. Evernote as an portfolio system Parent/Teacher conferences and Evernote

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Why High Schools Should Treat Computer Programming Like Algebra - Jordan Weissmann The tech industry is officially out to remodel your kid's classroom -- and it feels like there's a good chance that it's going to succeed. After years of more or less resisting the pull of the web, both college and K-12 seem ripe to be remade for the digital age. There's political buy-in. There's investor buy-in. There's, frankly, a pervasive sense that it's just time. But what exactly will tomorrow's schools look like after they get a SIlicon Valley-style makeover? Kids should play video games in school (and out) Could video games be the future of tomorrow's classrooms? Important disclosure: one of the day's two underwriters was the Entertainment Software Association, otherwise known as the video game lobby. In any event, some experimentally minded schools are already embracing video games as teaching tools. Which brings us to another one of the day's big themes. The end of industrial-style learning Don't punish noble failures It's time to treat computer programming the way we do algebra