As technology evolves and more and more people are surfing the internet, the #1 thing and most basic tool used are search engines. The most famous search engine is Google. Search engines basically get information from all over the web in seconds, they are also used as the first stop or homepage when you first go on the internet.
  Even though the teaching of technology is spreading, something not really talked about is the responsibility of digital citizens, also known as the social responsibility of anyone who goes online, uses e-mails or goes on social media. Examples in the class textbook of these responsibilities include, citing correctly and avoiding plagiarism. For the outside world, there isn't really a document to sign or read but schools have come up with Acceptable Use Policies, that state the rules and the consequences if those rules are broken.
Thirdly, information literacy as a learning goal is the main goal, if not the main goal as professors inside and out of the classroom. Information literacy is knowing how to "locate, gather, organize, interpret, synthesize, manage, present, use and evaluate" the information found on one or more than one electronic sources as explained in the textbook.
RESOURCES: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 Education, Inc.
I like your Emaze! :) It's kind of nice to have alternatives to the traditional slide presentation and when it is on the web, you can access it anywhere there's internet! Your three selected topics are very important ones and you summarized them nicely - you will want to change from summarizing to reflective writing which involves more personalization (i.e., how might you relate the concept to your own learning? how might you use it in the future? What questions do you have about the concepts or how they might work in teaching children? - these are all questions to help you think about reflecting but its not meant to be scripted - do what works for you!)
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