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High School Students Showcase How Edmodo Promotes Blended Learning [Video]

When students at Meadowbrook High School were asked to show administrators how their teachers incorporate the digital world into their classes, the students chose to highlight how their teachers use Edmodo both as an instructional support tool and a tool for professional development. Rather than writing an article for the school newspaper, the students produced a [...]

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Students Cast Their Vote for President

Last week, we launched Edmodo Votes as a way for your students to participate in this year’s election. We asked Edmodo educators to poll their students, in advance of election day, on who they think should be our next president. Today, the results are in! Votes have been tallied and the following shows the breakdown [...]

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Election 2012: 12 Questions to Engage Students in the Debate

The final presidential debate takes place on Monday and today we’ve got 12 sample questions you can ask your students before the debate! Choose one or more of the following questions and post them in your Edmodo group for students to respond to. If you have additional ideas to share, or you want to access more [...]

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Election 2012: Polling Students via Edmodo

The next presidential debate is tomorrow evening! This second round of debates will feature Vice President Joe Biden and Congressman Paul Ryan. To help you get your students involved and spark discussion in the classroom, we’ve put together directions on how to poll your students (a great way to engage them before, during and after [...]

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Election 2012: Debate Activities for all Subject Areas

The presidential debates start this Wednesday, October 3, and we’ve pulled together activities for each subject area to help you engage students. All activities and resources are listed in our Election Insights Community, with a few samples highlighted below. Join the community and view the “Collection” area for additional resources. Please share your favorites as well. [...]

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Election 2012: 3 Ways to Engage Students through Edmodo

Edmodo is a great platform to engage your students in this year’s electoral process. Take advantage of the following features to help you integrate election-related activities: 1. Polls Use the Edmodo polling feature to gauge your students on select topics. Sample polling questions include: Which issue do you think is the most important for this [...]

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Join the Election Insights Community

Edmodo is pleased to announce the launch of the Election Insights Community! This is an exciting new resource for you to help your students understand the election process and follow the presidential debates. The Election Insights Community will provide you access to new insights and the tools you need to engage your students, including: Access [...]

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Edmodo Reaches 10 Million Users

Today we are pleased to announce that Edmodo has reached a new milestone – we now have over 10 million users! To celebrate this exciting milestone, we pulled together the following infographic with some cool facts about Edmodo. A big thanks to all the educators around the globe that have helped make Edmodo the largest, fastest [...]

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Student 2.0: The Power of Peer Feedback- Bringing out the Best in Every Student

In our continued series from Kristen Sigler’s class at TEAM Academy charter school, this week 5th grader Daniel Velez shares his first experience presenting in front of a group, and how feedback from his classmates helped him recognize his strengths and learn from his mistakes.  I love this post.  I love that Daniel was nervous, [...]

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Student 2.0: Positive Digital Footprints and College Planning

More insight from Kristen Sigler‘s class at TEAM Academy Charter School in Newark New Jersey on how they use technology to prepare students for the connected world in which we live. Today’s post is by 8th grade student Saheed Seabury. *** My name is Saheed and my tech class has been doing a unit about [...]

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Student 2.0: Using Problem Solving and Brainstorming to Build Games

Hi my name is ShaLisa Peterson.I am in the 6th grade. The things I do in tech class is, that we use this program called scratch and we make our own cool video games. But in order to come up with the ideas for our games is that we come up with new and inspiring ideas [...]

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Student 2.0: Blogging is the new way to journal

Blogging can be a powerful writing tool.  By providing students with an outlet to share their interests, dreams and experiences, we help students build confidence, develop a love for writing and create a vision of their future that will follow them throughout their lives. If you haven’t yet tried blogging with your students, consider creating [...]

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Student 2.0: Got Food?

Ahmir weighs in this week — in our second weekly check-in with TEAM Academy Charter School on the ways they are using technology in school. *** My name is Ahmir Harris. I’m ten years old. My brithday is on Octuber 23.  In tech class we are learning how to make restaurants on our computers. Today at tech class [...]

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Students Respond to NYT: Why Schools Need To Invest In Technology

Our first Student 2.0 post!  For our first outing, we are highlighting perspectives of three 8th grade students from Ms. Sigler’s class at TEAM Academy Charter School in Newark, NJ: Khafeon Love, D’Asia Falodun and Jant’e Smith. Going forward, we’ll highlight one post each week! ********* From D’Asia Falodun Hello my name is D’Asia Falodun and [...]

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Student 2.0: A New Featured Blogger Series

Earlier this summer, we issued a call for applications to the Edmodo community for teachers who might be interested in sharing their experiences as they begin using Edmodo in the classroom for the first time. As usual, we were overwhelmed with feedback from teachers all over the world. Thanks so much to everyone who applied! [...]

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Student PLNs: Students As Resources

Thursday with Liz! ** When I first introduced my students to Edmodo, I really didn’t know what would happen.  I knew that Edmodo had the potential to do great things for my class and my students, but I didn’t want it to be just another web 2.0 tool.  My goal was to motivate my students [...]

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