{"id":13819,"date":"2018-03-12T07:45:05","date_gmt":"2018-03-12T11:45:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/americantesol.com\/blogger\/?p=13819"},"modified":"2018-01-21T20:16:35","modified_gmt":"2018-01-22T01:16:35","slug":"featuredbookmonicaburns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/americantesol.com\/blogger\/featuredbookmonicaburns\/","title":{"rendered":"Featured Book! Tasks Before Apps: Designing Rigorous Learning in a Tech-Rich Classroom by Monica Burns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!-- VideographyWP Plugin Message: Automatic video embedding prevented by plugin options. --><br \/>\nWelcome to a new series where we feature great books for language learners and teachers. This month we are featuring the book,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/141662466X\/\">Tasks Before Apps: Designing Rigorous Learning in a Tech-Rich Classroom<\/a>, by Monica Burns. Education Technology consultant and author, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ClassTechTips\">Monica Burns<\/a>, wrote this book to share strategies, tools, and insights to help teachers effectively incorporate technology in the classroom. The book focuses on the \u201cthree Cs\u201d &#8211; creation, curiosity, and collaboration. Many of the tasks and apps help language learners enhance all 4 skills- reading, writing, listening, and speaking. Your students will learn how to communicate on posts and message boards and locate credible information on search engines.<\/p>\n<p>Helpful features for English language teachers include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Customizable checklists and graphic organizers for planning tech-enabled activities<\/li>\n<li>Recommended apps and online resources that facilitate and energize learning<\/li>\n<li>Reflection and brainstorming questions<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Each week we scour the internet to find incredible books to highlight on our various social networks<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TESOL\">@TESOL<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AmericanTESOL\">@AmericanTESOL<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ESLWebinars\">@ESLWebinars<\/a>. Check out our past favorites <a href=\"http:\/\/americantesol.com\/blogger\/category\/book-of-the-month\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">To learn more about integrating technology to support English language learners, attend our <a href=\"http:\/\/americantesol.com\/tesol-lectures.htm\">free Friday webinars<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome to a new series where we feature great books for language learners and teachers. This month we are featuring the book,\u00a0Tasks Before Apps: Designing Rigorous Learning in a Tech-Rich&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":13820,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2153],"tags":[2243,2157,2155,2156,2242],"class_list":["post-13819","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-book-of-the-month","tag-edtech-esl","tag-elt-book","tag-esl-author","tag-featured-elt-book","tag-monica-burns"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/americantesol.com\/blogger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13819","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/americantesol.com\/blogger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/americantesol.com\/blogger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/americantesol.com\/blogger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/americantesol.com\/blogger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13819"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/americantesol.com\/blogger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13819\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13822,"href":"https:\/\/americantesol.com\/blogger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13819\/revisions\/13822"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/americantesol.com\/blogger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13820"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/americantesol.com\/blogger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/americantesol.com\/blogger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/americantesol.com\/blogger\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}