10. The Impact of Textbook
Discussions
Pro
Students creating
Students conversing
Con
Site navigation
Lack of bells and whistles
Promotion by teacher
No alerts
11. Technology Timeline
Continued…
May 2013. Netbook computers get fast.
Kids have Google accounts.
Kids can then have their own Khan
Academy accounts
12.
13. The Impact of Khan
Pros
Kids motivated by badges
Teachers get data
Cons
No true sense of community
Independent
14. Where am I now when it
comes to technology?
X2 – the online gradebook
CarlostheChicken
The Textbook Online
Khan Academy
17. What can you do with
Edmodo?
Communicate
Teacher to student
Student to teacher
Teacher to parent
Parent to teacher
Most importantly: student to student
18. Why would students
want to come?
Creating
Make a profile
Ask questions
Answer questions
Have a voice
Share (math) pictures
Earn Badges
100 Club
Homework Helper
20. Other Bells & Whistles
Teacher to teacher social network
Create polls
Create quizzes
Calendar
Google Docs
Schedule Posts
21. Where Edmodo falls
short…
Facebook? Not close.
No communication between schools
No lengthy writing assignments
Overlap with other tech
22. Educational benefits of
Edmodo
Type faster
Students learn protocols for communication
Reading new literacies
Work from home
23. Educational benefits of
Edmodo Continued…
Pictures of math
Students can become the teacher
Construct viable arguments and critique the
reasoning of others
A stepping stone to Twitter “microblogging”