Saturday, February 25, 2012
Edmodo ELA Benefit
Edmodo presents so many benefits for the ELA classroom. There are unlimited applications through this program to promoting writing, reading, listening, and even speaking. The promotion of this new literacy should considered by teachers, not just ELA. The reason this website can be such a valuable tool for adolescents is because of the friendly and familiar user interface. Students love to spend on average 50 percent of their time on social networking sites communicating with friends and family. Because of this, teachers need to get on board with social networking and accept that students will be more prone to complete their work if it is made available at their fingertips just as facebook.
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Even thought I agree with you that all teachers should consider social media sites, I think math would be the hardest to convince. Many math teachers just like to give problems for homework and call it a successful day. I try to mix it up by giving my student problem already solved and they have to write in complete sentences whether it is correct or incorrect. If the problem was solved incorrect, they need to explain in words where the mistake is and how they would fix it. This section of the assignment cound be done on a social media networking site.
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