The text explicitly focusing on the benefits of e-portfolios was very helpful when determining my theoretical perspective.  It stated that “electronic portfolios (e-portfolios) appear to offer this opportunity for learner control and to be capable of supporting or promoting deep learning as students are able to make connections between the learning which occurs in different contexts: academic, workplace and community” (The Learning Theory).  For my own learning my e-portfolio will allow me to reflect on how I used it and how to improve from there.  Students are also able to reflect after each Kahoot question and assessment.  Then this theory also emphasizes the use of social interactions, which will happen both in my e-portfolio (with all of you) and in the Kahoot setting when my students learn from one another.  This e-portfolio has been so beneficial for both myself personally and my professional development.  Yes we could have been told to study one certain type of assessment, but here in LLED 7940e we got the chance to choose what we liked, back it up with evidence and information from the course, go use it in our classrooms, and then bring it back to the e-portfolio forum to reflect and learn.

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I most closely agree with Eyal’s Digital Assessment Literacy perspective.  This article incorporates the teacher, the role of technology, and the incorporation of literacy skills, which are all goals in my teaching.  By using Kahoot these past two weeks I have included many of the skills and processes that Eyal discusses.  I am using a tool that supports my teaching and lessons while also collecting data so that I can see the results quickly in an organized fashion.  This tool also allows me to begin releasing responsibility to the students to “develop self-regulated and reflective learners” (Eyal, pg.37).  Kahoot allows my students to individually reflect on their own progress after each question and at the end of each assessment.  It also forces them to discuss with other students without really know they are doing so since it is disguised competitively.  “The teacher must provide opportunities for practice and repetition with feedback, demonstrations, practice of skills to mastery, observation and emulation of activities, and sorting and memory tasks” (Eyal, pg.37).  We used a Kahoot to practice while also collecting data for myself before a quiz.  Then I added the other two lessons we learned since then to the Kahoot to practice for our midterm assessment.  Even though the actual formal assessment would be the midterm test, it was nice to see what I needed to review with the informal assessment that KaHoot provides me.  I love how they were able to show me the content they had mastered and from there were able to use that confidence to continue on with the newer content.  It was so interesting to see their excitement for learning the content even when we played multiple times with the same game.