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Partnership for 21st Century Skills is a good site to check out initiatives and goals for our future students.  Check out the resources tab or look at different state initiatives.

This website is really a great resource for use in a future classroom, but not really a tool or something that can be immediately applied tomorrow. This is a complicated model that takes time and effort to restructure a curriculum to fit. This resource is mainly for teacher use and feedback because it outlines what the Partnership for the 21st Century Skills are and how they apply to the classroom. There are a few similar resources out there like this one, but overall this one is the best! It outlines specifically, with research attached, what needs to happen and how we can transform education. Interesting ideas and beneficial thoughts, but really hard to implement!

Study Jams is a great site to visit for find fun, informative videos for your kids. I often have the student watch a "study jam" as one of their stations. It is a quick way to reinforce skills were are learning.

wow, this is a great resource! I like how you had the idea of having this as one of your stations. This seems like it may be rather motivating for students.

This is a really cool website with a lot games for students to practice reading and writing skills.  My level two class used this resource a lot in class. 

This site gives activities for the Common Core math standards. Activities encourage the understanding of learning new skills through games. This could be used in small group settings in the classroom. 

We are not 1:1, but we could definitely use this in the lab, when we are writing sentences! Such a third grade skill

Lots of tools specific to UDL and special education, including text-to-speech apps, graphic organizer generators, literacy skill building, study strategies, etc.

Another resource shared in Dr. Curran's "Issues" course. This wiki has tools specific to special educators including some great free apps for text-to-speech and other accessibility tools.

Father creates app to help his young child living with Pitt Hopkins Syndrome (delay in motor skills and speech) communicate. The app is available on Apple's iTune's store and there is a link to the app in the article.

App allows user to push buttons that come in the form of pictures. By pushing buttons the students needs will be verbalized. Parents, teachers, friends, and etc. voices can be recorded so the verbalized needs are personalized and familiar.