The American Association of School Librarians (AASL)  has announced their top choices for “electronic resources that provide enhanced learning and curriculum development for school librarians and their educator collaborators.” These resources were formerly separated into the Best Apps and Best Websites for Teaching and Learning and are now combined into the Best Digital Tools for Teaching & Learning.

This FREE resource can be especially useful during virtual and distance learning! “TalkingPoints is a free messenger tool for educators that helps remove barriers in language communication. The TalkingPoints app creates easier connections with parents via text messages directly to mobile devices and in their native languages.”

Shared foundations: Collaborate, Include, Engage

The Talking Points site has a Getting Started Guide as well as 5 Tips to Jump Start Connections. Read a review of this app from Common Sense Education or this one from Ed Surge.

Hear from educators and parents (2 min video) about how they use this app to communicate: