Abstract
This article reveals the features of using the Edmodo educational platform as one of the tools for the formation of a participatory digital culture of a future teacher. The authors present the stages of work on this platform, describe the current results of a pedagogical experiment on the implementation of a system for the formation of a participatory digital culture of a future teacher. The article contains an overview of the multidimensional implementation of educational tools, ways of combining and complementing them, elements of the analysis of reviews of types of users' involvement in the process of participation. The authors emphasize the active position of the personality of participants in the educational process in a participatory aspect when changing and sharing educational digital content. The article defines the role of participation as a key link in the tandem of mediated communication between subjects of educational activity in the digital space. The authors present the results of an experiment in which 125 students of the "Foreign language: two foreign languages" major were trained to use the Edmodo platform as part of the "Teacher's professional guidelines" discipline. The training in the use of this digital tool was based on a participatory approach, which implies taking into account the personal qualities of users in the process of joint creation, implementation, analysis and interpretation of the current and final results of digital content.