Tech Trends of the Future

In terms of my future classroom, I think that the "peer to peer" aspect of technology would be one of my main focuses.  I would love to use online resources to stay connected with my class outside of the classroom.  I find education websites, like edmodo.com, to be a great resource for keeping students connected as well as providing them with a space to share ideas, concerns, or thoughts about class.  I would love to encourage students to post articles, videos, or interesting information that they find that relate to what we are learning in class on a shared webpage.  Overall, I want to encourage the building of relationships within and beyond my classroom.  I also would like to use "peer to peer" technology by setting up Skype dates with a Spanish-speaking classroom.  This would allow my students to cross cultural boundaries in my class as well as force them to use Spanish as the only source of communication.  Plus, I think this would be such a rich and unique experience! Another aspect of technology that I can see myself utilizing in the future are the "web apps".  Apple already has a Google translate app and it is very useful when I can't remember a word in Spanish and need a quick way to look it up.  This would be beneficial to have in my classroom and I would encourage my students to get the app like this that could help them with Spanish.  There are so many great options for using apps to help advance learning and I'm excited to see what other type of language apps are created in the future.