Having digital classrooms to go along with our dual language program would intensify the learning platform that is already taking place for our second language learners in a variety of ways. Since communication is at the core of our dual language program, technology will provide additional outlets to students being able to communicate, share work with, and receive feedback from others beyond the classroom through sources such as wikis, blogging, Today’s Meet, and Skype. Sources such as these expand communication from a conversation about ideas to communicating through written ideas, which will help our second language learners’ progress in both forms of communication. A digital classroom will open up avenues to independency and ownership as students can research through the use of technology to gain information and will offer more ways to create end products sharing their learning. As we move towards project based learning, the use of digital tools will give students more ownership of their project ideas as they will have the resources necessary to research, create, and share their discoveries. Differentiation will be more accessible as the students can work in apps that have leveled programs to meet all learners’ needs.
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