Hi, I'm Ester Degennaro. I teach English in a middle school, and my students are  11-13 years old.
My motto is: “Those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.” ― George Bernard Shaw.

 I use  Flipped classroom /ESL “Episodes of Situated Learning”, that’s a  teaching strategy based on active learning.
This to make possible that students could be actors of their own education-related with emotions and real life situations. The Classroom has to be re-designed as a lab: lessons become workshops into which problem-solving and collaborative learning are the central students’ activities. Digital technologies and mobile devices can empower these businesses  making possible that every student could be able to produce its contents and share them with  peers.

Blendspace is my favourite  platform to administrate videos and web quest. Edmodo is a useful interactive social education to share works and develop collaborative learning  activities making possible that every student could be able to produce its contents and share them with  peers.
 PBL  approach is a good teaching method for engaging all students with mixed abilities, in meaningful learning and developing the 21st-century competencies of critical thinking/problem solving, collaboration, creativity and communication. ETwinning network  is perfect because   collaboration has a wider European dimension and students have the possibility to compare and share their ideas with international students.
 
For formative and summative assessment  I prefer Apps like Edmodo, Google Drive, Book Creator, Twitter, Kahoot, self and peer assessment, rubrics for competencies and collaboration.