Edmodo is an excellent way of incorporating twenty first century learning, as well as whole-class discussion, into your classroom.

My Take

My overall opinion on Edmodo is that it is a worthwhile site and app to set up. I like how my students can create their own accounts and personalize them. My students like that Edmodo is, essentially, an "Educational Facebook" (their words). Edmodo is beneficial because it gets every student involved in discussion, and you can also have quizzes and polls that the program assess for you--that way, you spend less time slogging through piles of paperwork, and more time focusing on classroom instruction. An added benefit to Edmodo is that you can set reply restrictions so that anything a student wants to post publicly has to first be approved by you.