If we hope to increase student empowerment, we need tools that reflect our goals of equity and empowerment. Ted Cuevas (High Tech High Chula Vista) and Aatash Parikh (High Tech High GSE '17) developed an instructional technology tool, Inkwire, that allows students to capture and organize their work (as well as tag their peers in collaborative work) and then curate it into a format shareable with an authentic audience. Hear directly from Ted's students, with participants experiencing a Student-Led Conference (SLC) as the audience for the student. Students will share about how they documented their work and curated it into a portfolio on Inkwire, and how this helped them more easily present their SLCs as well as their Presentations of Learning (POLs). We will also share about how Oakland Unified School District used our tool to help implement Student-Led Conferences at one of their middle schools. Digital documentation empowers students to own their learning, and it also does the same for educators. We’ll also explore how we might create a shared library of projects and materials to foster collaboration amongst educators.
