International Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (Jul 2007)

Learning, Knowing, and Reflecting: Literacies for the 21st Century

  • Barbara Cambridge

DOI
https://doi.org/10.20429/ijsotl.2007.010202
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 1, no. 2

Abstract

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Excerpt: The “aha” moments in life delight us. We suddenly gain an insight, experience a profound joy, or realize something important for the first time. A second grader provided for me a crucial “aha” moment about the purposes of education. As a regular part of their learning, students in this second grader’s school throughout the year collected evidence of their learning in portfolios, pausing periodically to reflect on and explain the contents of the portfolio. On this particular day the second graders were sharing their portfolios with other students, parents, and guests, including me.

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