TEACHING FOREIGN LANGUAGE BY USING TECHNOLOGY – VIRTUAL CLASSROOM EDMONDO

Abstract

Teaching and learning with technology is both challenging and engaging for teachers and students. If we, teachers, want to introduce own students to collaborative learning spaces or integrate a learning management system, we use Edmodo. Teaching with technology isn’t just about staying up-to-date usingthe latest tools, it’s about knowing how to successfully incorporate the  tools into our teaching. This article looks at the benefits of using technology - Edmodo. You’ll also get an inside look at the practice of using technology to enhance teaching and learning – whether you teach in a traditional classroom oronline. Today it is difficult to imagine our life without a computer, the Internet and social networks. It is also known that students are using it for fun more than for education. So: _How can technology be used to get maximum benefit from it? _Can Network Edmodo change the teaching process for better? _Will the teaching process be more flexible? I think it is possible to carry out the work in the classroom as well as homework and school messages. The goal of Virtual Classroom Edmodo is to ensure the unity and co-operation in the educational environment. Much has been written on this network’s advantages but in the class, in the working process it still deserves studying. At the training course How to use Edmodo in teaching (held by the Teacher Professional Development Centre in Georgia) I learnt that Edmodo was a platform that can be adapted to any type of classroom. That by introducing it at a young age, we, the teachers, are able to develop the habits of the mind that are essential for students to be good digital citizens. Students learn to use appropriate language, to speak kindly and with compassion, to be supportive rather than critical, and to ask thoughtful questions. For this reason, noting its advantages, I decided to test this new method in my teaching process.

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