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This online social networking platform created by UC Irvine on which you can learn English free, use free online English lessons, chat, and find friends and penpals. Along with Livemocha, I strongly recommend this website to my students to interact with native speakers of English.

In the infographic, it is stated that " 98% of college students own a digital device" and "3 of 4 students say they wouldn't be able to study without technology". Based on these findings, I can suggest that Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) can be a promising trend since students can study in classroom environment with their own technologies.

I agree with this infographic. Technology is the most important way to capture the attention of today's students.

I agree with you, Ceren. Increased student achievement as a consequence of use of Twitter in classes is interesting. I would like to give an example how it can occur. Students can use Twitter to write their short reflections about a topic they learnt in class. It may increase students' engagement in lessons outside of the class and as a result it may foster learning.

Both K12 and higher education classes can be adapted to flipped classrooms. In this infographic, flipped classrooms applied for two education levels are compared with regard to some criteria. While there are more research studies on flipped learning for higher education than ones for K12, it is interesting to see that while 78% of school teachers flipped one lesson in 2014, only 29% of college instructors tried flipping a class.

This qualitative study was conducted to gain insights into the perceptions of prospective English language teachers at a state university in Turkey on flipped classrooms and to introduce the implementation of a flipped classroom into an English language class. The results were interesting and there are useful recommendations for implementing flipped language lessons.

"the secret words" idea seems to be very creative. I wonder how it is implemented. I also wish we could be able to learn what they do in the classroom in this specific example. I really wonder how classroom activities work in flipped elt classes.

Sebahat Hocam, maybe we can contact the authors and ask about it.

This is a website for teachers that provides various simulation resources ;)