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Comparison of 3 apps along with explanations of what the apps a good for and what they lack.

Vol 23, No 2, June 2019 Table of contents

Minnesota Foreign Language Teacher of the year 2019.  Information about CI, some products for sale and free stuff.

10 tools for effective peer feedback - from Matt Miller

This article from The Guardian discusses the impact of the government decision to lower the requirements for learning a world language based on the belief that, once the England leaves the EU, other languages won't be necessary. Essentially their equivalent of the Education Department is changing back to more extensive requirements so that by 2025 90% of students will be studying a language again.

"These projects are, in many ways, summative assessments. We aren't checking for fact recall from the latest activity. These cumulative activities pull from lessons learned throughout the whole semester - or year."

If you haven't tried Flipgrid yet, you should! now free for all!

We don't often get early elementary ideas for adding tech to the classroom - here are 20!

This easy-to-read introduction to SAMR (standing for "Substitution," "Augmentation," "Modification" and "Redefinition"), a model for helping integrate "technology tools into foreign-language classrooms," is blogged by a Chinese content and technology specialist who, I trust, has a lot of experience of incorporating media into Chinese learning activities. Besides clearly explaining how the SAMR model works for a L2 class via really useful tech tools such as Google Docs and Flipgrid, this blog also reveals a fact that our students "are not all 'digital natives,'" and encourages us, 21st-century educators, to "meet our students halfway to use tech for learning." I found the first two SAMR stages, namely, "Substitution" and "Augmentation," are very helpful for evaluating the interpretive mode implemented with appropriate media.