Edmodo: Partners in Education

Abstract

INTRODUCTION

Education is progressing fast. As technology plays a fundamental part in people's daily lives, it transforms ways 21st-century learners participate in the classroom or even outside the classroom. In line with this, social networks have been valuable tools in teaching and promoting learning. Social networks provide various benefits to educational settings by being an avenue for communication across all generations, where students can understand and exchange information. Edmodo is an educational social media which is perfect for schools as it fulfills extremely important needs, communication and collaboration. Using Edmodo, learners and teachers can communicate with one another and connect by sharing ideas, opinions, problems, and helpful tips.

METHODS

The study adopted a descriptive research design in which used intact classes of students as the unit of analysis. A questionnaire was used as the main instrument in gathering data. It consists of specially-designed items to survey information about the ICT skills acquired by the learners in using Edmodo in the classroom. Furthermore, secondary data such as grades of students and school records pertinent to the use of Edmodo were also utilized in the analysis.

RESULTS

The study revealed that there are significant influences on using Edmodo Educational Social Media to improve students' ICT skills. It is shown by the result of the calculation of the first quarterly grade. Furthermore, the implementation of Edmodo in the seventh grade of TCNHS can improve students' ICT skills. The students could increase their abilities in ICT. The students are motivated, more active, and joyful to ICT lessons.

DISCUSSIONS

Based on the results of the study, Edmodo appears to be a good supplementary tool to develop the 21st-century skills of the learners as it allows students to improve their learning through active participation in online discussions and tasks. Moreover, Edmodo seems to be a wonderful learning platform as educational social media which is so simple and user-friendly to the users. Furthermore, the majority of the respondents agreed that Edmodo is a good learning tool as educational social media to supplement face-to-face discussions and good collaboration platform for students and teachers because Edmodo facilitates the sharing of ideas beyond the classroom.