Chapters 11 and 12

The first concept I want to talk about from our textbook: "Transforming Learning With New Technologies" is a "digital teaching portfolio." According to our textbook, "Transforming Learning With New Technologies", " a digital teaching portfolio is a collection of educational and professional materials stored in an electronic format. " (Maloy, Verock-O' Loughlin, Edwards, 279) "Digital Teaching Portfolios" are very important as they allow teachers to keep track of their progress, and stride to become better teachers. One of the assignments in my EME 2040 course allows us to start our own unique "digital teaching portfolio." It is important to want to learn and progress as a teacher, and what better way to accomplish that, then by "self-evaluating" yourself, which is what a "digital teaching portfolio" allows us to do. 

The second concept I want to talk about from our textbook: "Transforming Learning With New Technologies" is "pre-assessments." According to our textbook, "Transforming Learning With New Technologies", " a pre-assessment occurs before introducing a new lesson, topic, or unit as a way for teachers to determine what students know or can already do in order to form subsequent plans for learning." (Maloy, Verock-O' Loughlin, Edwards, 285) This is very important, as teachers could be wasting valuable time going over information students already know if they fail to pre-assess their students. Throughout my whole educational experience thus far, almost all my teachers had some sort of test or assessment at the beginning of the year or semester, in order to see what we already knew, and what we needed to go over more. Teachers can't read students minds, so it is important they get smoked of idea of where the student is academically. 

The final concept I want to discuss from our textbook: "Transforming Learning With New Technologies" is "computer literacy." According to our textbook, "Transforming Learning With New Technologies", "computer literacy has meant learning the names, functions, and procedures of computer hardware and software." (Maloy, Verock-O' Loughlin, Edwards, 312) "Computer literacy" is important as technology is so crucial in today's world. We need to teach our students "computer literacy" from a young age so they have the highest probability of succeeding in today's world. 

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References:
Maloy, Robert, Verock-O’Loughlin,Ruth-Ellen, Edwards, Sharon A., and Woolf, Beverly Park (2013). Transforming Learning with New Technologies. 2nd Edition. Boston, MA: Pearson 

Schwarz, Gabrielle. Chapters 11 and 12. Made with Gliffy.com. (21 June 2015) Retrieved From: http://www.gliffy.com/go/publish/image/8396605/L.png