EDTECH at Boise State University

This website is very popular with English Language Learner teachers. It has articles divided by level of difficulty and with comprehension questions. It also has many current and relevant articles

The Library of Congress offers classroom materials and professional development to help teachers effectively use primary sources from the Library's vast digital collections in their teaching. I spent last week at the LOC in a teacher institute learning how to maximize their digital collections of primary sources to support my social studies class.

LOC "offers classroom materials and professional development tools to help teachers effectively use primary sources from the Library's vast digital collections in their teaching." (from homepage)

A PDF document created jointly by the Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) and the Society of American Archivists (SAA) that outlines core ideas and learning objectives to develop literacy skills in using primary source documents as distinguished from secondary source documents.

This article from EdSurge offers a look at how tech can help students improve skills that are integral to an ELA classroom.

Written by a secondary language arts teacher, this blog post contains a twitter chat on how secondary educators in ELA routinely integrate technology into their classrooms.

A blog focused on games used in language teaching.

A game where the students watch and learn songs, then complete a cloze test while the song is playing. The song pauses appropriately to allow for the student to fill in the missing words.

This article is not based on educational games in particular, but is based on video games. There are benefits of playing video games and the author does a nice job summarizing these benefits.

This article from eLearning Industry takes the reader through five advantages to using games in the classroom. The article also has links within it to take readers to other articles and apps.

A LibGuide from the James C. Kirkpatrick Library at the University of Central Missouri. Provides a ton of resources about various aspects of gaming in education, including the important of play, digital learning, game-based learning, gamification, and subject area examples.

A thorough article about various aspects of games and information literacy in the digital age. Includes a list of references and an embedded TEDx talk from noted teacher-librarian and researcher Joyce Valenza.

This study from Pew Research Center offers a good look at just who in American culture plays digital games regularly. The statistics here might be surprising.

In this TEDx Talks video, Prof. Christopher See discusses what games and education have in common and how games can be used to increase student engagement.

An article providing a premise for using social media on using social media in low skilled adult classes to gain more skills. The article also points out the lack of research into social media in adult education.

A Padlet with a lot of ideas listed for using Padlet in a classroom. It is also open to be added to.

This blog states the importance of social media in higher education. The author, Gupta, backs his opinion up with several linked articles and studies.

This blog highlights 7 ways social media has a role in education. The author states the 7 ways and includes links to piktocharts, articles, and websites to further explain her claims.

From the HootSuite blog, a post about classroom exercises using social media in higher ed and how to use social media as a professional development tool to enhance curriculum.