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PLN's "Friends Educating Each Other": Using Twitter for Informal PD
This document summarizes the key findings from a presentation on using Twitter for informal professional development. The presentation discusses how teachers can build personal learning networks (PLNs) on Twitter to connect with others, share ideas, and improve their teaching. Benefits identified include opportunities for self-directed, job-embedded learning that reduces isolation. The presentation recommends teachers participate in Twitter chats and start small by finding mentors to build their PLN.
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- 1. PLN’s “Friends EducatingEach Other”: Using Twitter for Informal PD Region 5 PLC Debbie Fucoloro March 14, 2014
- 2. Personal Learning Networks PLN= connections to people and resources, both offline and online, who enrich our learning
- 3. PLN = “friendseducating each other” revived
- 5. Typical Teacher Network byAlec Couros
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- 8. Research Suggests • Self-directed •Differentiated • Ongoing • Job embedded • Flexible • Encourages self-analysis and personal reflection
- 9. New Paradigm • PLNsshould be validated as a powerful professional development component • Not: Traditional vs Informal • But a mix of: traditional & emerging, formal & informal
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- 11. Findings Favorite social mediaapplication to use for informal professional development: http://bettergraphic.com/free-and-paid-fonts-used-in-logos-of-popular-brands/
- 12. Two Questions Posedto My PLN
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- 14. Open-ended Themes -Why Twitter? Community & Convenience “It is the modern equivalent of the 18th century coffeehouse—a place teaming with ideas, opinions, research, discussion, collaborati on, and bold vision.” http://blog.songcastmusic.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/twitter-community-600.jpg
- 16. Open-ended Themes –Why Twitter? Informal Learning & Sharing “I have created a PLN that I feel meets my needs by providing resources, ideas, and challenges to improve learning for my students.” http://images.wisegeek.com/people-independently-working-in-a-cafe.jpg
- 18. Open-ended Themes –Why Twitter? Professional Improvement “I have developed more as a professional since participating in #edchat than I did in the last five years.” http://appliedsimplicity.org/files/u2/group_3w.jpg
- 20. Open-ended Themes –Why Twitter? Isolation Reduction* “The largest difference is that I no longer feel alone in the classroom. I think it is hard for those outside of education to realize how isolated teachers were before social media.”
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- 24. Make connections Improve lesson planning with technology Improveteaching with technology Confidence to try something new
- 25. Implications for Educators 1. Participatein informal, online professional development by starting your own PLN built on your needs and passions—start small, find mentors, be patient.
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- 27. Suggested Chats • #edchat– Tuesdays, 11:00 a.m. & 6:00 p.m. • #moedchat – Thursdays, 9:00 p.m. and…
- 28. You’re invited! #catholicedchat -Saturdays, 8:00 a.m.
- 29. Resources • Twitter forTeachers Wiki Page • Weekly Twitter Chats • Educational Hashtags
- 30. The next bestthing to being wise oneself is to live in a circle of those who are. ~ C. S. Lewis The next best thing to being wise oneself is to live in a circle of those who are. ~ C. S. Lewis
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- 32. Find me at: Twitter:@debbiefuco Blog: The Educators’ Café Email: dfucoloro@smmaschool.org
Editor's Notes
- #3 Richardson & Mancabelli a PLN is a set of connections to people and resources, both offline and online, who enrich our learning.
- #4 I propose that the PLN has resurrected the "friends educating each other” model of adult learning.
- #5 We need to take a step back and consider how things have changed.
- #6 Pre-Internet – teacher’s store, magazines, face-to-face: conventions, workshops, classes all input (one-way) no conversation
- #7 Networked teacher with access to Internet – social bookmarking, personal publishing platforms, aggregators; two-way interactions
- #8 The social networked teacher is now connected to everyone that each person they are connected to are connected to…learning is amplified
- #9 Literature suggests a new paradigm for staff development that should be:Self-directedDifferentiatedOngoingJob-embeddedIn addition,FlexibleEncourage self-analysis and personal reflectionSetting the stage for PLNs to be validated as a powerful professional development component
- #12 Twitter was designated by respondents as their favorite social media application
- #15 Open-ended QuotesTwitter – Community“It is the modern equivalent of the 18th century coffeehouse—a place teaming with ideas, opinions, research, discussion, collaboration, and bold vision.”
- #17 Open-ended QuotesTwitter – Informal learning“I have created a PLN that I feel meets my needs by providing resources, ideas, and challenges to improve learning for my students.”
- #19 Open-ended QuotesTwitter – Improve practice“I have developed more as a professional since participating in #edchat than I did in the last five years.”
- #21 Open-ended QuotesTwitter – Isolation reduction“The largest difference is that I no longer feel alone in the classroom. I think it is hard for those outside of education to realize how isolated teachers were before social media.”