eportfolios in education stems from the fact that they  enhance students overall  learning and provide them with a chance to showcase their academic work to their peers, parents or the whole school.

e-portfolios make classroom learning more accessible to parents, teachers and administrators They provide a window into student learning They showcase both student achievement and student learning over time They provide additional assessment information beyond what can be collected from traditional letter grade

e-portfolios  increase student engagement, promote a continuing conversation about learning between teachers, parents, and students, and extend academic lessons beyond school walls

presentation created by Becky Evans on 40 ways to use Google Apps in Education.

digital literacy means using technology thoughtfully and responsibly. Today, digital literacy is not a privilege or just a convenience, it's an expected and often required part of being productive and responsible citizen, by inviting more people to become digitally literate we can improve our own future in the way basic literacy  improved societies in the past "

It is thanks to literacy that human thinking developed to include more abstract and syllogistic concepts which constituted the foundational pillars of science. Literacy also enabled humans to build a civilization through the encoding and sharing of collective wisdom.