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Learn how to integrate Folio Thinking into educational practices to create coherence, meaning, and self-awareness in students. Explore the impact on students' confidence in their abilities, with insights on applying Folio Thinking in design engineering. Discover the benefits and challenges, along with examples and assessment tools.
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Supporting Individual Folio Learning: Folio Thinking in Practice Helen L. Chen, Ph.D. Stanford Center for Innovations in Learning NLII Annual Meeting, January 27, 2004
E-Folios in SCIL • Informed by 2 projects: • Learning Careers • Folio Thinking • The outcomes from our research have focused on the pedagogical implications and issues relating to the implementation of e-portfolios: • From the perspective of the student or learner • Emphasizing techniques and best practices to support reflective learning
The Problem Students’ intellectual experience of higher education is fragmented due to: • Lack of curricular coherence • Increasing demands of an information-rich environment • Growing importance of out-of-class learning experiences
Our Approach Provide structured opportunities to: • create learning portfolios • reflect on learning experiences Enable students to: • integrate and synthesize learning • enhance their self-understanding • make deliberate choices in their learning career • develop an intellectual identity
Folio Thinking • The reflective practice of creating learning portfolios for the purpose of creating coherence and making meaning • Draws on: • experiential learning • metacognition • reflective thinking • critical thinking • mastery orientation to learning
What does Folio Thinking look like in practice? • Extend Folio Thinking to a more specific context and application • 2 research projects currently underway in Mechanical Engineering design • RQ: How can we refine and tailor Folio Thinking practices and techniques so that it is appropriate for design engineering?
Applying Folio Thinking to Design Engineering • ME 013N: Designing the Human Experience: introductory freshman seminar • ME 310: PBL-X: Team-Based Design Development with Corporate Partners • Both courses: • Project-based with real clients • Team-oriented • Real subject of the course: design process, design thinking
Study Objectives To explore the impact of Folio Thinking on a student’s level of self-confidence in her ability to be an engineer by: • Increasing student self-awareness of knowledge & skills • Helping the student make explicit connections among aptitudes, knowledge, skills, & the real work of engineering
Blogs within a Tiki-Wiki Environment • Informal, continuous, easy and low barriers to posting • Students already potentially familiar with blogs • Ability to link reflection to artifacts • Individual commenting/feedback from coaches and others at a distance
Next Steps • Examples and stories of Folio Thinking in practice – What does Folio Thinking look like? • Collecting and sharing of assessment tools, instruments, techniques, best practices for evaluating Folio Thinking