Socially Vulnerable Individuals Digital Portfolio DP

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Socially Vulnerable Individuals Digital
Portfolio (DP)

• Kassandra Teliopoulos
• 19/03/09

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Portfolio a general definition

• The collection of the important works of an
  individual that represents his/her efforts,
  his/her development as well as the results he/she
  has attained in different sectors of learning

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It is a tool for the evaluation of non formal and
informal learning. It recognizes and makes
visible the abilities and skills an individual
has acquired through non formal and informal
learning.
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Types of Learning Differences and Similarities
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• Informal abilities are acquired through
• Everyday, work and leisure activities
• Parents, relatives and friends who teach us
  something .
• Observing an expert while he/she performs an
  activity

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• Informal Learning has the following
  characteristics
• It results from life activities that are
  meaningful and important for the individual
• It is silent, it takes an effort to make it
  visible
• Disadvantaged groups tend to depreciate and
  undermine the skills that they have acquired
  through informal learning as a result, it is
  difficult to describe them

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• What it contains
• The digital portfolio (dp) may include
• Photographs of the work products
• Videos of the individual performing an activity
  while he/she explains what he/she is doing and
  why he/she is doing it
• Audio material

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The development of a DP constitutes a counseling
procedure

• The individual, supported by the counselor
• Evaluates his/her experience
• Decides on and collects the products that will be
  included in the portfolio
• Thinks about the learning procedure he/she has
  experienced
• He/she makes decisions concerning his/her future
  steps

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The Development of aDP requires

• Individual sessions and interviews between the
  beneficiary and the counselor
• Use of tools P/C, scanner, digital video camera,
  digital camera, tape recorder, etc.
• Phases of counseling procedure

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The Counselor

• SHOULD ALWAYS REMEMBER the following
• The development of a DP is a counseling procedure
  empowering the individual
• Informal skills are hidden
• The beneficiary has the tendency to depreciate
  and marginalize the skills and abilities that
  he/she has acquired informally
• The characteristics of Informal learning, so as
  to be able to detect the activity sectors within
  which the individual has acquired his/her skills

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The Counselor cont.

• SHOULD NOT ALSO FORGET TO
• Encourage the verbal expression of the individual
• Detect, acknowledge and make visible the skills
  and abilities that the individual has acquired so
  as to empower him/her
• Last but not least
• That the ultimate goal is the personal and
  vocational development of the individual

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Experimentationwith the digital portfolio (DP)

• IEKEP has produced 5 pilot DPs with different
  target groups
• Before the experimentation operators were
  properly trained by IEKEP
• Furthermore, during the experimentation phase the
  operators were assisted by IEKEP counsellors

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Results/comments onthe Experimentation

• Both beneficiaries and operators welcomed the DP
  and enjoyed the procedure
• However, it is a relatively long procedure that
  requires guidance and preparation
• The whole procedure is an important learning
  (empowering) experience for the beneficiary
• Also, it familiarizes the beneficiary with IT

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Results/comments onthe Experimentation (cont.)

• Some reservations
• Will the DP be appreciated used by employers?
• Are employers of very small companies
  familiarized with IT?
• How shal we involve employers in the whole
  procedure?