Technology Portfolios:
The Next Exit Outcome


Now, I know there is never truly a new idea. I also realize that if educational change is going to occur, or we are going to expedite change, we may have to alter, increase, or simply redefine the exit outcomes, high school seniors will be required to fulfill before graduation. Why not then create some portfolio that illustrates the student's growth of technology and literacy. Imagine, every single student, in every single class, would have to construct a collection, illustrating literacy utilizing the web. This collection, transferring from year to year, would become a representation of that student's literary and technological growth.

For example, students exiting my A.P. European History class, would have to develop a blog and personal wiki, utilizing information gathered from their delicious account and that account's subscriptions, interject quotes from other blogs, wikis, articles, or sources, using diigo. They would also have to assist in the construction of a class wiki, leaving comments on a class blog, while collaborating online using vyew (online whiteboard), and sharing their delicious account with all their classmates. Talk about higher order thinking with a literary focus, in a dynamic and engaging environment.