Week 6 Assignment #2.2 Edmodo in the classroom

       Write a paragraph on how ELA teachers can use Edmodo to enhance their ELA instruction. 

          In this day and age of smartphones, apps, social media, and always-connected devices, students are having a harder and harder time keeping their focus on their teachers. Yet the idea of 21st century learning is encouraged and deemed necessary, a tool like Edmodo is great for digital natives. It is a safe environment where both students and teachers can learn across all areas. This platform is based around groups with a common interest or purpose, such as a classroom learning community. It provides a secure and private environment since, the administrator or teacher is the one who invites the members of the group. This controls who can and cannot interact with the members of the group. The thing I like about Edmodo is that instead of teachers competing for their students' attention, they can engage them with real conversations through the devices and interfaces they’re already familiar with.

        Edmodo can be incorporated into the ELA classrooms in a variety of ways to enhance instruction and elevate the learning experience. It can be used to consolidate all of classroom activities in one place. The teacher can post assignments, allow students to take quizzes, create polls for students to respond, and provide links for useful information. Moreover, the teacher can facilitate project based learning in his/her classroom by leveraging Edmodo’s small-group feature, or he/she could use Edmodo badges to help motivate students to push their learning and increase their practice time on new topics. Also, he/she can enable students to tap into individualism and build self-esteem by sharing their writing projects with each other in Edmodo or they can help students understand key historical and literacy events by reenacting them through role playing activities in Edmodo.