My Dictionary has expanded this week

My education dictionary has expanded since beginning this class, two new terms I have learned this week while exploring electronic portfolios and blogs, are lifelong learning and life wide learning which are used to describes the concept of learning where individuals learn throughout their life-span from formal, non-formal, and informal sources. Key issues in lifelong learning include the following: lifelong learning "dissolves" the boundaries between policy sectors and increases communication among various walks of life;  lifelong learning challenges old ways of communicating and looks at different affordances  for cooperation and coordination;  lifelong and lifewide learning implies a shift in responsibility for education and learning; lifelong learning also involves a shift from the state to the individual, with the individual being the center of the process; Our society must create good conditions for lifelong and lifewide learning, especially by promoting educational equity;  finally lifelong and lifewide learning requires information and guidance and follow-up and evaluation. With eportfolios you can cover a lifetime of life experiences and learning in a few digital pages, you can update the portfolio with minimal time and effort, keeping artifacts together makes it an easy to continue to update and document your life. Students could create an eportfolio and document life events throughout their schooling, this would be especially effective throughout junior high and high school. Teachers and Principals could follow a student’s progress throughout the year and possibly even identify subject areas where the student might be struggling to succeed. The affordance of this technology opens up many possibilities for classroom instruction and workforce development. I wish all high schools would implement a policy where students would create a blog or electronic portfolio in the first week of their freshman year and have them maintain it until the week before graduation, the timeline would be amazing.