PLN's "Friends Educating Each Other": Using Twitter for Informal PD
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PLN's "Friends Educating Each Other": Using Twitter for Informal PD
- 1. PLN’s “Friends Educating Each 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 = “friends educating each other” revived
- 5. Typical Teacher Network by Alec Couros
- 8. Research Suggests • Self-directed • Differentiated • Ongoing • Job embedded • Flexible • Encourages self-analysis and personal reflection
- 9. New Paradigm • PLNs should be validated as a powerful professional development component • Not: Traditional vs Informal • But a mix of: traditional & emerging, formal & informal
- 10. Key Findings
- 11. Findings Favorite social media application to use for informal professional development: http://bettergraphic.com/free-and-paid-fonts-used-in-logos-of-popular-brands/
- 12. Two Questions Posed to My PLN
- 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.”
- 24. Make connections Improve lesson planning with technology Improve teaching with technology Confidence to try something new
- 25. Implications for Educators 1. Participate in informal, online professional development by starting your own PLN built on your needs and passions—start small, find mentors, be patient.
- 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 for Teachers Wiki Page • Weekly Twitter Chats • Educational Hashtags
- 30. The next best thing 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
- 32. Find me at: Twitter: @debbiefuco Blog: The Educators’ Café Email: dfucoloro@smmaschool.org
Editor's Notes
- Richardson & Mancabelli a PLN is a set of connections to people and resources, both offline and online, who enrich our learning.
- I propose that the PLN has resurrected the "friends educating each other” model of adult learning.
- We need to take a step back and consider how things have changed.
- Pre-Internet – teacher’s store, magazines, face-to-face: conventions, workshops, classes all input (one-way) no conversation
- Networked teacher with access to Internet – social bookmarking, personal publishing platforms, aggregators; two-way interactions
- The social networked teacher is now connected to everyone that each person they are connected to are connected to…learning is amplified
- 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
- Twitter was designated by respondents as their favorite social media application
- 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.”
- 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.”
- Open-ended QuotesTwitter – Improve practice“I have developed more as a professional since participating in #edchat than I did in the last five years.”
- 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.”