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In the past few decades, interactive electronic media has grown from
Students continue to use internet and computer not only for pleasure or one of
their leisure activities but for academic purposes too. Some teachers introduce
societies. Consequently, the same has totally changed the way people think,
work and live (Grabe, 2007). As part of this, schools and other educational
conjunction with preparing students for the current digital era, teachers are
seen as the key players in using ICT in their daily classrooms. This is due to
2006). The process of adoption of ICT is not a single step, but it is an ongoing
and continuous procedure that fully supports teaching and learning and
network and refines them and makes it appropriate for the classroom. Using
Edmodo, students and teachers can reach out to one another and connect by
Edmodo and other social network sites is that Edmodo is a social learning
platform that allows students to access the course content uploaded by their
each other via messages, thus providing learners with the chance to
create stronger memory links than text alone. In addition, digital technologies
allow instant playbacks, which provide the learner with quick and easy access
textbook. It also enhances authenticity using video and the Internet. The
Internet provides learners with access to authentic materials, like news and
literature, while video can offer context-rich linguistic and culturally relevant
with full captions, key-word captions, and speech slowdown, allowing the
through e-mail, chat rooms, and other digital means (Zhao, 2005).
The Philippines in general and the University of Southern Mindanao in
particular has fallen behind its ASEAN counterparts in terms of the integration
i.e. ICT + traditional setting, has become a relatively unexplored area in the
field of research. As such, the researcher decided to look into how blended
and after being exposed to traditional teaching method and Edmodo at the
Edmodo;
Edmodo;
This study would provide significant information about the writing skills
of the college students who are exposed in Edmodo. Outcomes of the study
may form the basis for future intervention programs which aim at improving
help of Edmodo to the writing competency of the students, as well as for the
students. The result of the study would serve as the baseline data for the
future.
students before and after being exposed to Edmodo. The study will only
includecollege students who use Edmodo in the classroom from the University
Theoretical Framework
a seminal work by Levy (1997) as "the search for and study of applications of
CMC has been researched and supported as being very useful to helping
gap between written and oral expression for the linguistically limited student
whose oral skills are not adequate to allow for full expression of ideas in the
Sha (2001) also proposed that student users are affected by the
internet and this impact is determined by the type of internet usage. They are
(SNS) will depend on the type of SNS the student is using, if the student uses
the internet for the purpose of leisure activity that interferes with academic, it
the purpose of clarifying their use in this study, among of which are the
following:
college students.
content.