Connectivism through Social Networking

 

Many students have a Facebook account these days. When I did an interview on social networks before, students told me that they liked how they could talk to everyone they wanted. They could post pictures and like pages of things they were interested in. One of the students spoke a different language with her family. She was still able to communicate in Spanish through Facebook as well as find other resources through Facebook. Well why not make Facebook educational? Edmodo is a social networking site designed with a layout the same as Facebook. Edmodo is a more safe way for students to collaborate with each other with educational resources. A teacher can post an article or a question and students can reply to each other on Edmodo. Students can also find and "like" articles or other pages of their interests. Edmodo gives endless possibilities for instruction.