ABSTRACT
This chapter talks about various tools, Slack, Padlet, Tackk, ThingLink, TodaysMeet, Poll-Everywhere, VoiceThread and Google Suite, that offer potential for participatory learning and several practical examples of how professors are using them to innovate their teaching approaches. Participatory learning is the form of learning that occurs through interactions in the public web and with social media, such as Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube. Learning is participatory when the outcome is a product that has been constructed through contributions made by members of a group or community. After a student has accessed the assigned content and made the required contributions, they 'access' the contributions made by their peers, looping back to the opposite end of the spectrum, and then leave comments and feedback that loops back again. As students regularly contribute their own content and interact with the student-generated content to deconstruct, discuss, apply, analyze it, the more participatory the learning environment is.
