We are pleased to announce and exciting new update to our English as a Second Language Listening books. We have added more Listening activities for students and teachers to study with plus all new interactive multi-touch activities. 

These updates are ready now and available on iTunes or through our website: www.studyitbooks.com 

Don't forget our ESL textbooks can be used on iPhones, iPads and most modern tablets or smart phones. 

Updates are FREE for only Apple Products.

One of our most successful Grammar textbooks is our Grammar Level 2 Book. It is for use with Low Intermediate ESL students. 

We are pleased to announce a major update to the Grammar 2 books for teachers and students. 

The updates are FREE if you have already purchased the book. 

What's New? 

• Over 100 new questions and answers 
• New Interactive Widgets 
• New Video Grammar Explanations
• Links to our Student and Teacher Forum in the books
• New Vocabulary added to the Glossary
• New Project ideas with samples for Teachers to consider

The Study It textbooks are available on iTunes

With the new release of the iOS 8.4, all Study It textbooks are available for use on the iPhone. Students and Teachers can access the books on all Apple devices - iPhone, iPad, iMac or MacBooks. 

The videos, audio, interactive widgets, glossary, study cards, dictionary - all elements that make the Study It English as a Second Languages series so great are available on your iPhone - today. 

The Study it ESL Textbooks can be stored in the Cloud. Students or Teachers can download the books on any device as needed. 

The Toronto District School Board recently opened a museum celebrating the educational changes from generation to generation. It is considered one of the largest education museums in Canada. 

What would you put in the museum now? I asked my children who attend TDSB schools and here is the list:

• CD Players
• Textbooks
• Blackboards
• PCs
• The Overhead Projector

What would you add to museum? 

There is a great blog post on what Teenagers think of Educational Technology in the classroom by Soraya Shockley. She talks about learning with Tablets, Teacher Websites, Google Classroom and more. You can read the full article below.

Tech has always been a part of my high school reality. But as digital and traditional learning mix and mingle, reactions have exploded over whether “EdTech” is enhancing or hindering education.

On this question, we usually hear from teachers, parents, administrators, tech companies, and investors clamoring to fund them. Now, it’s time for teens to talk. Let me tell you what my friends and I really think about technology in the classroom. Some of it’s great, but for those EdTech enthusiasts out there, well, hold on because the truth may hurt.

While true, that students will be interested in using their mobile device for online social interaction, mobile devices offer so much more. Mobile Learning is not about Social Media.  In fact, it has very little to do with Mobile Learning. While some students may form study groups on Facebook or chat about projects over Instagram and this does represent a form of online sharing, Mobile Learning is much more than this.

And in many cases students have already learned this lesson and its the teachers and the schools who need to wake up to the possibilities.

If we teach the students in the world they live in, we have a better chance to improve their ability. If students are interested in what they are doing, then they will not be distracted. 

M-learning is much more than just the location. While it is true students now carry their PCs in their pocket and it is extremely convenient, Mobile Learning is much more than location. We should not think M-Learning is about giving language students the opportunity to download a PDF anywhere they want or accessing a web portal on their mobile device. It is more than that. Studying or teaching English as a Second Language classes can be better and can be improved. It is about giving your ESL students: 

• downloadable content - digital content that can be downloaded, updated and shared is the key to M-Learning. The device should not matter. The platform should not matter. What should matter is that the content is digital and updatable. 
• personalize learning - giving students the opportunity to take notes, record lectures, create digital content that can be used again and again on their mobile device for their job, children or just for their own enjoyment. Never have students had so much choice for how they want to learn. 
• an active learning environment with project-based learning or “flipping the classroom” where students teach the teacher is used much more often in M-Learning schools. 
• contextualize the content - now students can experience the situation in various forms inside and outside the classroom either virtually or through a real-life experience. 

"You can study anywhere" is one of the key features that attracts students and English teachers to Mobile Learning. But it is more than that. 

Check out the Study It ESL textbooks today! Visit our website at www.studyitbooks.com to learn more about these innovative English as a Second Language books. The books are designed to help ESL teachers flip the class, engage in Project-Based Learning (PBL) or teach with the communicative or situational methodologies. 

E-Learning has given students the opportunity to learn at home - away from the traditional classroom. But do we really want students buried behind a PC or Laptop when there is a whole world for them to see and learn from.

Mobile Learning or M-Learning has taken E-learning to another level by allowing students to learn ANYWHERE. Students can study while traveling, on vacation, during breaks or any other free time they may have. Students are growing up in a world where they can “learn anywhere, any time.” But  M-Learning is more than just studying anywhere. 

Mobile devices are changing our world and how we gain knowledge. Mobile devices and the content on them have created new art forms, new gaming consoles, new employment opportunities, new languages, new business models and much, much more. As John Donahoe, eBay’s CEO stated during a Charlie Rose interview, “People are buying 8,000 cars a week on eBay’s mobile app”. 

 Isn't it time for ESL schools to throw away rows upon rows of PCs or laptops and get ESL students speaking to each other? #MobileELT

A lot of educators believe the English as a Second Language classroom of the future is still 10 or 20 or even 30 years away. We disagree. The ESL classroom of the future is available now.  

There are 4 key points that most educators believe the classroom of the future must contain:

1. The Teacher as the Facilitator -The key to success is giving teachers materials that are adaptable to each student. To give teachers the opportunity to flip the classroom. Teachers are "guides on the side". The help to engage and motivate students to speak and use English in many different ways. 
2. Remove the classroom walls - The world is the classroom. A classroom is a meeting place to explore. The iPad is the tool that students can use to travel and explore in English. Schools must embrace the technological tools that are available to breakdown the walls of communication. 
3. Curriculum based on Project-Based Learning - simply sitting behind a desk and filling in a blank worksheet printed from the Internet is no longer acceptable. Students have the ability to create podcasts, short films, radio shows, comic books and so much more. A curriculum based around projects bring the ESL classroom alive. 
4. Invest in Technology - Invest in mobile devices like the iPad, digital textbooks and numerous apps is absolutely necessary. An ESL school must make the investments that are best for the students, staff and teachers. Using paper textbooks, CD players and photocopies are unacceptable for the modern learner. 

The ESL classroom is not 20 years away. The ESL classroom is ready...now.