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I believe that integrating technology into instruction for emergent bilinguals is a crucial part of education. There are a multitude components that guide my thinking and reasoning. All of the modes of language; listening, speaking, writing, and reading, can be integrated into technology and can help emergent bilinguals be more involved in instruction. A lot of the apps and websites that I explored cultivated all the modes of language into one easy site.  In addition, the technology available can be easily differentiated to fit the needs of all ELLs and emergent bilinguals. I think that technology can be extremely useful when differentiating curriculum because it allows for easy access to translations and information. Critical thinking can be found is a few of the sites that encourage the students to create and explore. However, while using technology I think educators need to make sure that the site is encouraging critical think and not just a game. Alongside regular classroom instruction, technology can be a useful tool in creating an environment that fosters deeper understanding of content areas. As students age they develop greater independence when using technology and creating meaningful experiences with technology. In primary grades I believe that technology is often only a professional development tool. While in the other hand, technology is almost rarely used in primary grades as a tool for instruction and communicate information to students. I believe that as technology becomes a greater part of the world, technology should become a great tool for classroom instruction and should be utilized to its full potential to help emergent bilinguals.

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https://myimmigrationstory.com

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My Immigration Story: This site would be an great component when teaching about social justice and social studies. The site focuses on stories of actual U.S. immigrants. I think that this could be a great way to connect immigrants in the class and help them find connections to the content. At the appropriate age, teachers could let their students share their immigration stories if they felt comfortable. I think this can be useful to emergent bilinguals because they might have connections and you can even have them share their stories in their native languages.

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My Immigration Story

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https://cospaces.io/edu/about.html

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CoSpaces Edu: This site was super interesting to explore and is a great way for technology to be integrated into classroom instruction. This site allows students to practice and play with virtual reality, coding, and programming. Although it states that it is designed for any subject or grade, I think this would be a more appropriate site for intermediate level students. I think that it would allow for emergent bilinguals to be given opportunities to work with technology with out making them miss out on cool opportunities. I do think one concern is that the teacher would need experience first and also more resource and therefore more funding would be necessary.

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CoSpaces Edu

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PBS Kids: This site focuses on games and practice that can be put up on the smart board. There are variety of resources that can be helpful for emergent bilinguals. Some of the practices focus on sight words and even synonyms. I think this site would be especially cool because it also has a parent site and it would be easy for young students to safely navigate the site. I like how this could bring technology into the classroom with the smart board or iPads.

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PBS Kids

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http://pbskids.org/whiteboard/

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http://byrdseed.com/differentiator/

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The Differentiator: This is a great assessment tool for educators because it really focuses on the end goal and helping formulate learning objectives. I think that it is useful because it can be written for any grade level and can help focus an assessment. I think that it would be useful to anyone in the classroom and helping emergent bilinguals understand what is expected. I think it would also be a great resource for edTPA. The concern I have is that this is a assessment resource only for educators rather than for both educators and students.

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The Differentiator

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https://www.freshgrade.com

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FreshGrade: This is a site that I will definitely be looking at in my own classroom. FreshGrade is a website that allows for educators to visually track, assess, and communicate about students to themselves and their parents. There are variety of assessment tools within the site but allows for everything to be observed while it is happening. There is access for parents and students. I think that this would be super helpful with emergent bilinguals and their families because they could easily translate it on the computer or they can feel more included in the classroom with pictures and updates. I think one concern I have would be signing off by all parents. I think you would have to have the parents on board before you used a website that would store photos.

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FreshGrade

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Quizizz: This is an assessment tool where educators can see quizzes made by other professionals or make their own. I think this could be useful for my classroom because it is another form of testing and can help students prepare for standardized tests that are completed via technology. I think it could be beneficial to emergent bilinguals because the teacher can differentiate the quiz how they please. I think it is also neat that it provides data about the quiz. However, the potential problems that I see with Quizizz, is that it isn't necessarily fair for the students that do not have regular access to technology.

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Quizizz

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https://quizizz.com

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JeopardyLabs: This can be a fun interactive tool for the classroom because you can create a jeopardy game about almost anything. I think this would a really fun tool to integrate with a smart board and even have the students getting up and moving with the game. I think you could get emergent bilinguals involved with pictures or vocabulary words and even involve some terms in their home language. The main concern I have with this is that is would be most effective with intermediate grades.

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JeopardyLabs

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https://jeopardylabs.com

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https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/draw-tell-by-duck-duck-moose/id504750621?mt=8

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Draw and Tell - by Duck Duck Moose: This is great application for literacy time or group work with iPads. It is a creative platform where students can draw, write, or create stories. This is another useful way to integrate technology into the classroom as well as creating a fun and creative environment for emergent bilinguals to express themselves. I think that this would be great for all stages of language and would even be fun for students with no English. The only concern I have is keeping students on task.

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Draw and Tell - by Duck Duck Moose

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Padlet: I imagine that many of you are familiar with Padlet, if not, it is a sharing platform that allows for people to share ideas and express information. This can be a useful tool for integrating emergent bilinguals into technology. A cool way that I have seen Padlet be used is as a way to communicate with other classrooms around the world. In the class room students can set up pin pals from a class in a different country and use this site as means of communication. The only concern I have about Padlet is that this would be a teacher facilitated activity.

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Padlet

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https://www.padlet.com

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https://padlet.com/stryffes/gk1eo8w2fxpv