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Teaching with Technology
Developed by Nic Borg and Jeff O'Hara in 2008 to
unite the virtual world with the school, it facilitates
learning in a playful way, taking advantage of the
fact that students like to surf the Internet and attend
social networks.
Edmodo is a free social network where teachers and students can share content and
educational applications. It is a tool that seeks to combine technology and education. A
esthetically and functionally the platform is very similar to Facebook.
Main features
Teachers and students collaborate in a secure and closed environment;
Promotes responsible use of social networks and other tools;
It enables greater interaction and communication between teachers, parents and
students.
It combines new technologies with education.
Message system that allows secure and open communication, with supervision and
control of the teacher;
Possibility of supervision of the activities carried out by the student;
Possibility of assigning papers and evaluations that will be submitted by the students
and evaluated automatically;
Possibility of creating groups by subject area, extendable to the community.
Possibility of storage and sharing of documents in a cloud computing environment;
Individual content sharing, by curricular unit or by group;
Parental control account;
Simple and intuitive interface;
Free and free of publicity;
Possibility of access through the computer, mobile phone and tablet.
In order for the application to be secure there are several administrators per country and
special access codes for schools and classes / subjects. A student to be able to register in
Edmodo must have a code that is provided by the group, that is, by the teacher. The fact
that users can only exchange information with the members of the group where it is
inserted, allows that there is no contact with unwanted users.
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