Mobile digital devices like smartphones, tablets, and even laptops have made it much easier for learners of English as a second language to immerse themselves in constant practice and speed up their learning process. ESL and TESOL teachers and learners can find a world of useful apps for every platform to help with such crucial language learning processes as: Vocabulary building Reading comprehension Pronunciation ...and more!

Teacher, one-to-one advocate and blogger Monica Burns shares some of her favorite free apps for supporting English-Language Learners' vocabulary acquisition.

A sortable spreadsheet by content area with task descriptions and Bloom's Taxonomy category.

Common Sense Media editors help you choose Math Apps and Learning Tools for Kids. These engaging apps can help kids learn a variety of math concepts.

List of 20 apps - 10 are free - 10 are 'worth the $$'

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We have a wide variety of apps that appear on the iPads across multiple grade levels that can be used for many different tasks. How do you want to meet your standards? Student Response System Socrative is an app that will allow you to use any web-enabled device (Computer, iPad, iPod Touch) as an advanced Clicker.

This is another set of apps broken down into the different SAMR levels.

This is a website that has apps broken down into the different stages in the SAMR model. It may be a good resource as we are getting ready to use iPads in our classrooms.

This video shows how iPads are being used in one classroom. It is primarily an example of Substitution on the SAMR model.

This is an article which explains that the 21st century classroom is not about teaching technology, but rather learning in a new way and using technology as a tool.