Design Experiment 2: Edmodo and Remind 101

This week, I experimented with a free course management system (CMS): Edmodo. I’d never used this particular because I’ve been out of the classroom over the last 10+ years, but I’d heard and spoke with teachers that have. As I explored, I noticed the feature that allow instructors to: to post notes, alerts, assignments, polls, and quizzes for your students.  Parents can also link to their child's account to view his/her activity and use this to post links to videos and learning games that correlate to my classroom concepts.

Remind 101 is a tool that allows for communication through computer and via text message, which seems to be taking the global universe by storm these days.  What I like most is the security of not compromising your personal cell phone number. It’s a texting tool to build stronger lines of communication among teachers, students, and their parents.

The pedagogy affordances of Remind 101 is being this is a mobility implemented tool that allows intersecting practices that occurs through content access, computation ability, and communication affordances.  This is the constructivists approach to the learning process by providing conversation and allowing learners to construct models to solve problems.   

The affordances of this technical teaching tool is it allows learners to learn in communities and teams to solve difficult problems, which is how learning occurs most naturally. And seems to be a good assessment tool, too. It looks similar to Face Book, and safe enough to pattern its look for educational purposes by allowing students to login using their first initial and last name followed by their school number.  This is a #Future Ready was to access classwork, quizzes if they missed school that day, assignment, and they can ask other students about work they weren’t able to attend school that day. the integration of technology in the traditional school system. The pedagogy affordances are based on the belief that learners revolve around learners' conversation for Edmodo to support learners who share knowledge, values and goals. Learners need to explore, articulate what they know and have learned, speculate, manipulate the environment in order to construct and test their theories and models, and reflect on what they did, what they have learned from the activities.

The technical affordances of both is the face they are easy to implement, parents and kids can choose the daily communication, and they can both be connected through the touch of cell phones.