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Digital Dialects offers a nice selection of educational games and activities for learning 55 different languages. Most of the games are designed to learn and practice the basics of each of the 55 languages listed on the Digital Dialects homepage.  Another good website for learning and practicing language basics is Literacy Center.net. Literacy Center offers games for learning and practicing French, Spanish, German, and English. The Literacy Center is a 501c non-profit with a contract from the US Department of Education.  Applications for Education The educational games and activities found on Digital Dialects and Literacy Center are great for students just beginning to learn a new language. The games provide instant feedback to students and parents so that they can monitor progress and choose a skill or set of vocabulary terms to practice. 

A collection of lesson plans based around infographics for developing critical thinking skills and digital literacy.

A collection of lesson plans based around infographics for developing critical thinking skills and digital literacy.

10 Lessons in Digital Literacy https://t.co/OA3a5Od5ly #clil #infographic #lessonplan #esl #tesol #tefl #edtech https://t.co/oxhecrRoHL

Create an avatar and connect with Your Digital Self through multimedia. Create links to whatever it is that helps you define your digital self. This is fun! . Revisit it often and link to your favorites. Turn it in and receive a badge.

English is a foreign language for 95% of the world's children. Yet almost all digital literacy tools for young children are written in English. Mobile learning is therefore out of reach for all but those very few children prepared to start learning a foreign language before they have mastered their own. Isabelle Duston, a self-professed "serial entrepreneur" decided to tackle the problem by creating educational applications that will bridge the digital language divide without losing cultural diversity in the learning process. Her iLearn4Free venture is developing apps in several languages for teaching little ones how to read in their native language.

Here are 5 tasks that you can download to help you develop materials and resources for your students whilst developing your own digital skills.

english and portuguese literacy in public schools. news on how the Sequoia foundation is changing paradigms in the public school

Students can construct deep knowledge about a topic as they engage in building a multimedia project. If used effectively, a well designed student-driven learning experience can take the place of traditional methods of teaching content. Use of digital tools can provide students with flexible learning paths to meet their unique learning styles.

Excellent wiki, full of treasures.

Science of Happiness - Lessons in #DigitalLiteracy https://t.co/MSxpfF4V1v #elt #clil #infographic #stem #k12 https://t.co/tt8gZo6KCV

great analysis of why students, even being digital natives, still need to learn about information literacy.