Padlet.com

Padlet is an interactive bulletin board tool.  It is extremely easy to use and can be used in many different ways.  Teachers can create a board to foster a class discussion.  The teacher can post a question, picture, video, or any combination.  All students have to do is log on to the page and then click to post a "note" to the board.  This tool can also be used as a space for students to collaborate on a project.  Because it can be accessed from any computer with internet access, the students can use it for asynchronous collaboration.  It also gives a record of each student's input. 

This tool meets the following elements of the NCTE (National Council of Teachers of English) Framework for 21st Century Curriculum and Assessment:
Develop proficiency and fluency with the tools of technology

• Do students use technology as a tool for communication, research, and creation of new works?
• Do students, independently and collaboratively, solve problems as they arise in their work?

Build intentional cross-cultural connections and relationships with others so to pose and solve problems collaboratively and strengthen independent thought. 

• Do students work in a group in ways that allow them to create new knowledge or to solve problems that can’t be created or solved individually?


• Do students work in groups of members with diverse perspectives and areas of expertise?


• Do students build on one another’s thinking to gain new understanding?


• Do students learn to share disagreements and new ways of thinking in ways that positively impact the work?


• Do students gain new understandings by being part of a group or team?


• Are students open to and intentional about learning from and with others?

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