Abstract

Schools are social agents to diffuse merits of technology. The uses of technology foster professional development. Schools have started to make tendencies towards digitalization. Especially learning and teaching contexts become technology supported. In this respect, school infrastructure and learning resources have changed. Teachers play a great role to adopt new changes in learning teaching process to the new generation. This makes innovation in schools to use new technologies and applications for better education practices. This research study aims to create awareness on Edmodo model to teachers and develop their skills on new learning contents for establishing more digitalized school at the secondary education level and analyze the uses of blockchain in school management. The research study was conducted with 21 volunteer teachers working at the secondary level that they get training on the use of Edmodo Content Management System. Case study through action research was done in this research study that self-report was used to gain experiences of teachers. By this way, educational online environment was created for teachers for the uses of learning-teaching process. Research results revealed that teachers enhance their skills and knowledge about the use of the Edmodo content management system increased compared to the pre-seminar. In addition, they gained online collaboration and research skills. This practice created the culture of technology based innovation for their schools.

Highlights

  • Internet has become an indispensable part of our lives due to the rapid progress of developments in information and communication technologies in the 21st century

  • The purpose of this study is to examine the use of Edmodo, which is an educative online setting for teachers aiming at evaluating Edmodo Content Management System Education which is designed for secondary school teachers and to gain opinions concerning the usage of Edmodo in learning-teaching process

  • Within the framework of the research, a preliminary evaluation form was applied in order to assess the knowledge and skill levels of teachers concerning Edmodo content management system prior to the 10 hours seminar applied to the teachers

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Introduction

Internet has become an indispensable part of our lives due to the rapid progress of developments in information and communication technologies in the 21st century. Individuals reach desired information any time and communication between individuals in different places of the world is becoming easier. Main aim in the education system is success. Success is a chaotic topic and it is linked to more than one factor. For these factors, countries historical savings, political and economic situations, the sum of sources that are reserved for education, qualifications of teachers, family styles, the importance that is given to education by political structure and physical opportunities of educational institutions can be counted

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