Portfolios, visualizations, barren exchanges at city council
A booklet titled "City Council News" is distributed once a month together with the newspaper.
I was unfamiliar with the use of the word portfolio in education, so I asked Bing.
The News from the City Council explains the portfolio as follows: "It's a word that means a document holder. In the field of education, it refers to accumulating, sorting, and analyzing children's various learning products and records, and using them to improve learning and teaching. ” Unlike Bing's description, this sentence doesn't have a subject, and it's a vague description, but it's all there is to it.
But if you've heard the word portfolio while listening to Congress, do you know what it means?
In this article , there are specific examples of using data such as student grades and attendance. The contents can be fully understood without the extra word "portfolio".
About 1,600 students enroll at this university each year, and in recent years, about 10% of them have dropped out. Using data is one way to reduce dropouts.
Private universities and public elementary and junior high schools cannot be directly compared. However, even so, I am amazed at the superintendent's long-winded answer that "we will proceed with the creation of a system for visualizing the data recorded on the tablet PC."
The subject is unknown, and there is no scheduled deadline. Is the ambiguous thing called visualization the purpose? "Is it the end if you create a system that allows you to see the data?" Such an answer does not make sense, but even if you watch the video that has been made public, the Superintendent of Education only reads the paper and is not questioned by lawmakers. According to this, the superintendent of education receives a monthly salary of 804,000 yen. It's an easy job.
If data from tablet PCs are to be used, the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology should present a basic model of the system, rather than just one city. Based on that, schools and boards of education should be creative and ingenious.
Taxes cover the cost of tablet PCs in public elementary and junior high schools, as well as the salaries of civil servants. I want them to use it with a purpose, not just buy it.