This brings up a very important point...for our students who are struggling to get their work completed because they are distracted or are unsure about what they are doing--are having to miss recess to complete their work. Pros/cons?Keeping a student inside for recess in my opinion is the last resort. We need to remember that this kids are just that, kids; and they need to be given times to play and interact with their peers.

Having this free play time to interact with other students is extremely important, especially in today's society when so many of our students are sitting behind screens far too often.

I wish I could highlight this whole article, wow! I have been struggling with this mindset, how am I going to makes this work for my 20-28 students in my classroom. This article had so many great and great ideas to try and start out with. One step at a time!

I teach first grade and have used symbaloo previously, however I am not sure if my students would benefit from having their own PLE's via symbaloo. In the past I have logged into my symbaloo on their ipads so they can access the resources (kahoot, myOn, pbsKids, etc) I want them too. I need a major "make-over" to my symbaloo, it isn't very student friendly.

I think this is extremely appealing to students, you can have the symbaloo page set as the home screen on computers and all of the websites/resources that are approved would be right at the disposal for the students.