In their study of 10 multilingual undergraduate students, they say they expected texting to be a regular practice, but "what we had not anticipated was the range of valuable uses and substantive gains afforded by texting."
This blog has good resources - some related to tech and some not. I like that the author links to a lot of activity and lesson plans - it's good to have models.
This would be interesting to try with languages, too. Check out the comments below, there are other good ideas there for different apps and ways to do this.
There are notes that should be investigated here, too - government quality indicator proposal (#3), students disappearing (#5). I think you will find the article very interesting - even if the study was done on a required course for students in "College of Hospitality, Retail, and Sport Management"
"This article presents some ideas and suggestions to work towards being a more informed digital parent." There is also a list of apps to watch out for on a child's device.
Karly Moura does a guest blog post for Matt Miller.
"Flipgrid is a video response platform where educators can have online video discussions with students or other educators. Teachers can provide feedback to students AND better yet students can provide feedback to one another."
Matt writes: "I was introduced to a new twist on an old way of planning lessons this weekend at CUE BOLD, billed as "The Premiere Lesson Design Event for the West Coast."
Includes links to 30 lessons and their slide decks.
The idea: let's build lessons that utilize technology through the framework of the Madeline Hunter Lesson Plan."
I work with language teachers, teaching them uses of technology for language teaching and learning. I have a special interest in the preparation language teachers need to teach online.