Jamie Auld Smith, Learning Technologist and JJ Miranda, Learning Technology from The University of Edinburgh spoke at PebbleBash 2024 and presented ‘Mapping competencies and nurturing professional identity: a portfolio approach for early career Community Learning and Development practitioner’. You can read a small snippet of the video transcript below. Click here to watch the video with the full transcript or if you’re having trouble viewing the video above.
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Hello, everyone. I’m Jamie. I’m JJ. We’re learning technologists at Edinburgh University, and we’d like to share with you today how we’ve been supporting our community learning and development students to make the link between theory and practice by using capability mapping in PebblePad.
But first, a bit about our team.
We are the learning technology team at Holyrood campus.
We support the school, for education and sport and the center for open learning.
So we like to see ourselves as the friendly face of learning technology at Holyrood campus.
And I’m gonna pass you over to JJ, so he can tell you a bit more about what we do.
Thanks, Jamie. These are some of the words that our colleagues use to describe us, but more generally, we work really closely with academic colleagues to leverage tech based tools to enhance teaching and learning and to achieve their learning outcomes in different courses. And we collaborate really closely.
Today we’re talking about the master’s in learning in communities, so the Malick program.
So students work, in local settings focusing on community empowerment and working in with organisations locally with vulnerable groups addressing needs, and it’s a it’s a really diverse and passionate group.
As part of their placement, the students are asked to create a portfolio in PebblePad.
This gives them the opportunity to collect evidence of the work that they’re doing with their community groups. And all the photos you can see in the presentation today have been taken from the students’ portfolios, with their, permission except for this one, which is Stuart Muir, the course organiser, explaining to the students the purpose of the portfolio.
And this is really to help the students to become critically reflective practitioners, to identify their strengths and, to so that they can better support the communities in which they work.
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