Technology Toolbox

Padlet falls into the Augmentation layer of the SAMR model is most cases. This tool offers a substation for students collaborating and engaging with each other as well as a substation to a physical pin / bulletin board. Its features that allow students to comment on and like each others posts gives it a level of functional improvement.

The free response nature of the tool allows for student engagement and great collaborative group work projects to be completed with this tool. Students who work better in group setting will benefit from the use of this tool. Also students who like to communicate and respond well to peer comments and reviews will also benefit well with this tool. When students engage with each others work this tool will create an opportunity to have a very interactive lesson. This tool also serves well to bring class discussion online in a simple to use way.

This tool is great for all general educational integrations. Based on the subject and content this tool can be applied in a multitude of ways to stimulate student lead discussions and responses. This tool can also serve as a great tool for stimulating brainstorming and idea sharing around topics that anyone in the classroom can generate. Lastly this tool serves as a great way to showcase students final work to other students in the classroom and generate classroom discussions or peer reviews around such showcased work.

Highlighted Use Case

In our districts advanced art classes students work on their art projects and post progress pictures to the class padlet for other students to review. Posts in this class are due by friday when the class has a critique session. Students during this session log into the padlet and review the progress and work of each others current art projects offering critiques and responses that are engaging to each other. In art classes student critiques are a critical part of the curriculum and this tool helps our students to enrich this objective in a very technology savvy way.

Highlighted below are some basic video tutorials to help get started with Padlet. If you are interested in implementing this tool Request Access from our helpdesk.