Issues and Trends

This module explores ways to address the specific needs of ELL students and how to scaffold their language and literacy development. You will examine observable behaviors that indicate students' progression through stages of language acquisition. English-language learners are students who have acquired their primary listening and speaking skills in a language other than English.

I just actually thought this was a short pretty interesting read, it gives you both sides of the story

I thought this was a useful resource for the introduction of using social media in the classroom being straight forward with the pros and cons. I think this resource would be useful if it were linked with a website that explained how to combat the cons that are pointed out in this article. For example, how can we take the cyber bullying issue and turn it into a learning opportunity in the classroom. I believe this resource should be used to help teachers decide if they want to utilize social media in the classroom. I am aware of multiple resources that point out the pros and cons in social media.

This was very short, sweet and to the point. It got the points across fairly simply. It would be a good link for an RWLD or something along those lines. A great supplemental read that doesn't take too long to get through and understand.

This is a great website for 21st Century Learning. There is a large possibility in the future the students are going to be getting the news and updates about their society through online news sources. This is a great way to start the students on reading the news and educating them about the world. We can teach them strategies on how to filter through news in the online environment. I also like this website is kid friendly language.

I am sharing an educational resource many should look into. I think in todays every growing technology world, it is a good idea for all students to get the basics of programming. I like this 10 tools you can use to support yourself in teaching children the basics of programming. If I find this is interesting to students, I will use more of these tools.

They talked about this at ITEC. I think that it is really important for students to learn about programming because there are so many things that are being digitized. As a whole, we all are doing a lot of interacting in virtual environments. If students learn how to program, they won't just have an online presence, they will be able to CREATE an online presence for themselves. I want to become more familiar with programming myself.

Taking the time, even 15 minutes a day on social media for your classroom can make a different. I think this is an important reminder on the reasons why we should use social media. This is a great starting point if you are just introducing social media into your classroom. I will continue to revisit this website to improve my instructional practice.

We all hear we should be using Twitter to enhance our classroom, but where do you start? I would like to incorporate Twitter into my classroom and I think this is a great resource to start up with. Please use this if you are looking to incorporate Twitter into your classroom!

This is a great resource to use in educating yourself on information about digital storytelling in the classroom. You can use this to learn information about it and why it should or should not be used in the classroom. It is a good idea to know the benefits and downsides to any resource we are using in the classroom

The two extra resources I found were in correlation to my final topic I am writing about in this class, digital storytelling! If you have any resources related this topic, please share!

This article lets you know what the 21st centruy skills are and what teachers will get out of them

This article lets you know what the 21st centruy skills are and what teachers will get out of them

Thank you for posting about 21st century schools!! Lately in some of my other classes I feel like people are forgetting we need to teach these and how important they are for students to learn so I'm glad you haven't forgot about them! This a pretty nice listing too so you can easily see what you need to teach skill wise and why it's important

20 different websites are given to give teachers access to lesson plans that engage students and provides outlines to support a classroom that supports technology, common core, and professional development.

Websites like this that have a list of other places to go make it easy to keep your resources organized and who doesn't love free online resources!

This website is a lot like the one Tabatha posted, I like that there are websites out there that can give a teacher multiple resources on just one page, it takes the search out of teaching, which is really appreciated from a busy teacher. This is mainly for teacher use, but students benefit.

Offers ways to use technology to deal with behavior management in the classroom

Offers ways to use technology to deal with behavior management in the classroom

I feel like people are often so worried about integrating technology into the classroom that they often forget about how this is going to affect classroom management. As we implement technology into the classroom we are going to have to change other aspects of our classroom, and classroom management is going to be one of them. Great resource!

100 different and unique ways to incorporate social media into the classroom

I think this is a great resource for many different ways to integrate technology into the classroom. If one of these doesn't work another one could. There are so many ways on here that I had never even thought about!

This will give me ideas to use social media in my classroom

This website helps teachers connect and share their ideas with other users in order to enhance classroom learning

I LOVE lesson cast, it offers great support for all teachers. You can practically find anything you are looking for. This is mainly for teacher use but students benefit from it based on the quality of lessons teachers are giving them.

I have never heard of LessonCast until your post. I looked around the website and I plan on adding into my personal diijp library because it seems like an awesome resource. I like how it has lessons that are already aligned with certain standards.

A way for no extra nonsense and inapproriateness that YouTube provides. This is strictly for school purposes and is filled with students like you!

This resource is very similar to the TeachingChannel. I have used that a couple of times whether that be to use for videos I would show students, or for my own personal use. I love that these are videos by other teachers. This really gives you the sense of what is happening in actual classrooms.

While I appreciate having access to YouTube and will always prefer the ability to find videos on about anything I'm looking for, YouTube is not always appropriate. When you want to safe guard students from inappropriate material or advertisements you can't see coming this is a wonderful resources, similar to TeacherTube. SchoolTube is definitely growing and should be remembered as a place to find video resources for both teachers and students.

This list has tons and I mean TONS of cool teacher websites and links to teacher blogs to get fun classroom ideas.

This is a great one shop stop for teachers! I would definitely use it as a starting point for many of my classroom activities to spice things up and expose my students to a variety of learning methods. I think it focuses more on what teachers need to do but its great for students to learn with.

Wow, what a collection! All types of links including blogs, educational sites, apps, databases, and activities. This is a great place to visit when looking for ideas. Many subjects are included. A teacher could start here and spend lots of time expanding to other sites!

The articles gives teachers some points on how to support a 21st century learning environment.

The articles gives teachers some points on how to support a 21st century learning environment.

This website is a good tool for teachers to map student's ideas within the classroom. Teachers can model the use of this website and have their students use it as well.

Mindmeister is a great resource for students! Graphic organizers are a powerful tool to help organize thinking. Mindmeister's ability to bring collaboration into the mix just makes it better, as well as being able to present. Works on multiple types of devices too, so good for everyone!

I really like this software! When I think of Social Bookmarking I want to use it to help me find different tools that will benefit me in my classroom. I can think of a time where I am going to want a nice mind mapping software that you can collaborate with, and I know I will be able to come and look at this resource. I agree that this software could be used very effectively, especially because it does have the collaboration tool. I believe this tool could be used both for the teacher and also the student. I could see how easily I could use this website in my life, both when trying to explain things and also in group work. I am aware of different concept maps you can create online, but I believe this one looks user friendly and I would like to explore it even more!

This article provides goods and bads to one to one classrooms.

This article is a question answer with a teacher who lead introducing devices in the classroom.

Here is a list of different digital storytelling tools that I would like to research at a later date. I have the common ones I go to, but I would like to see which different elements can be taken advantage of, when not using a tool I typically do! If you have any experience with these tools, please comment!

I like this website for my future instruction. I would definitely use it to enhance students message meaning. I have heard of similar websites and would like to compare them. I storytelling is more for students rather than teachers but can be used interchangeably