EDTECH at Boise State University

Came across this while digging around on the Christensen Institute blog.

How can we support every student? This resource talked about why UDL is essential and what we can do to make sure we have the strategies we need to meet all students' needs.

This Common Sense Media article suggests some of the IOS or Android built-in accessibility features parents and teachers could be using with their special needs children.

This article reviews the technology tools created for foreign language instruction.

"Either teachers embrace the new language learning technologies and integrate them in a new pedagogy or they will not only deprive themselves of the enormous benefits afforded by computer-assisted learning (CALL), computer mediated communication) (CMC), distance learning, social networking, and language games, but they will be increasingly out of touch with their own students, who are by now wired, networked and computer-savvy". This book explained why teachers should integrate technology tools into foreing language classrooms.

Teachers should make sure that they understand the goals for including technology in literacy instruction. Second, they need to know how to design instruction to support students in achieving those instructional goals. This blog will address both of these issues.

This article talks about the technology tools teachers could use to support language arts instruction.

This resource talks about the benefits of using e-Book readers that possess built-In dictionaries, ability to highlight text and text-to-speech note taking so that students can better understand what they are reading.

This teacher presents a possible solution for those students who learn at different paces, come with different abilities and are participating in a flipped classroom. She suggests using Book Creator as a way for students to engage in creating books.

"Imagine if kids poured their time and passion into a video game that taught them math concepts while they barely noticed, because it was so enjoyable," Bill Gates said. This article talks about what role games should play in the classroom.

Elearning Industry published their top statistics on the size of the digital learning and game-based learning markets as well as some of the recent trend reports on how kids and adults see these tools.