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Is an interactive, multimedia bulletin board that allows students opportunities to create, collaborate and share content and knowledge with their community of learners.

Living and breathing webpage.

It's device-neutral, accessible using Web 2.0 technology (Free and enhanced paid accounts).

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Blackboard
Bulletin Board
Projector / Whiteboard
Overhead
Post-its
Chat room
Discussion Forum
Teacher call and response
Static classroom debate - students as receivers.

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"appropriates the techniques, forms, and social significance of other media and attempts to rival or refashion in the name of the real" (p.65)

Student engagement, critical thinking, collaboration and learning community all are enhanced and made 'real' by Padlet.

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1) Technical
2) Social (and cultural)
3) Economic

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Potential for constructing a new medium.

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Potential for constructing a new medium.

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Bolter and Grusin (2000) suggests that a mediums potential can evolve and change over time as all sorts of cultural relationships emerge. (p.66)

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Bolter, J.D.& Grusin, R. (2000). Networks of Remediation. In Remediation: Understanding New Media, (pp. 64-84). Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press

Nahla, H. N. (2019). Students' perceptions about the impact of using padlet on class engagement: An exploratory case study. International Journal of Computer-Assisted Language Learning and Teaching (IJCALLT), 9(4), 72-89. doi:10.4018/IJCALLT.2019100105

Rathakrishnan, M., Ahmad, R., & Suan, C. L. (2017). Online discussion: Enhancing students' critical thinking skills. AIP Conference Proceedings, 1891(1), 020120.

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Students sharing knowledge, ideas, POV, questions in a format that makes the invisible (student thought), visible (interactive blackboard)

Create and collaborate in a space that encourages community knowing.

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Attached is an example of participation in a Contemporary Talking Circle (using Socratic seminar/critical thinking/arguementation) at Grade 11 level to build community understanding and collaboration.

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EQUITY
Accessibility - learning curve,  free & device-neutral.

ACCESS
Doesn't require sign-on.  So ease of access

COLLABORATION
Increases in collaboration by building a padlet page that encourages students to build upon each others' ideas.

COMMUNITY
Classroom discussions are limited by those willing to participate.  Using padlet gives rise to everyones voice/ideas being shared in a collective space.

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Understanding New Media

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Existing research referenced in in this paper stated that using Padlet as an online discussion communication showed "positive benefits documented are the convenience of asking questions and getting responses from instructors, learn new information from peers and having more fun learning"  as well as immersing the students in general knowledge and fostered their interest in giving ideas. (p.2)

They also refer to other studies that suggest that using these types of tools allow students to think critically, clarify issues and make conclusions in a interdisciplinary fashion. (p.6)

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Students sharing knowledge, ideas, POV, questions in a format that makes the invisible (student thought), visible (interactive blackboard)

What changes related to Nahla's findings (2019):

Behavioural - engagement

Emotional - enthusiasm

Agentic - proactive, independent to community co-construction

Cognitive - employing various learning strategies

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Student engagement seen through four interrelated aspects: behavioural, emotional, agentive, cognitive engagement.  The results of this study showed that Padlet "enhanced student engagement, fostered active learning, and offered positive assessment experiences", (p.72)

Padlet is a "platform for generating new knowledge as students share relevant materials and acquire new ideas from the materials shared by their peers" (p.72)