EDTECH at Boise State University

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.

Provides tips for engaging college students on social media, including creating hashtags for individual courses and collecting course feedback in real time.

A new (in 2013) study finds that the proportion of professors using social media in the classroom is steadily increasing.

Track current scientific evidence, discoveries, and ideas and share with classmates.

A social media platform that focuses on science and specifically biodiversity

ESL Videos is a site which allows users to make quizzes from YouTube videos. There are already a number of shared quizzes and videos made. These quizzes are put into levels. I think some teachers may find the quizzes applicable to native speaker students as well.

Survey Monkey is an internet survey and polling software which is popular. It has an educational free version which includes the ability to make simple quizzes. It is fun to write polls for students to understand their class dynamic and ungraded learning quizzes for them. While the free version does not offer explanations to incorrect questions, this can be supplemented with text on ones website for the student to read afterwards.

ISTE has compiled personalized learning tools for all students, particularly those students with diverse and adaptive learning styles. ISTE explains the highlighted tools and explains why they have included them in the article. Each tool has a link to take readers to the tool for use and/or purchase.

This quizlet teaches learners about web-based learning and activities through a tool actually used in web-based learning activities. This shows the learner the benefits of web--based learning in an engaging way.

This article provides an overview of some of the potential benefits of using social media with students.

While this article focuses on how to use social media as an institution, the recommendations it makes are applicable to individual instructors and classes as well.

Another guide with concrete examples and links to internet-based tools you can use in your classroom curriculum.

This is a faculty teaching guide produced by College STAR (Supporting Transition, Access, and Retention). College STAR was a grant-funded project dedicated to providing materials to help college campuses be more welcoming and attentive to the needs of a wider variety of college student learners. This guide is specifically written from a UDL (Universal Design for Learning) standpoint, which means that the resources provided here will be especially accessible for students with differing needs.

A post from Kids Discover that explains what web 2.0 tools are and provides 8 example of tools you can use in the classroom. Geared towards K-8 educators, the tools listed could be used in a variety of different classroom contexts for different ages.