Proactive Professional Development: A Networked Teacher

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Vanaja Nethi, Ph.D., Nova Southeastern University, USA

Adam Murray, M.A., Miyazaki International College, Japan

nethi@nova.edu Nova Southeastern University amurray@edu.miyazaki-mic.ac.jp Miyazaki International College

PLN and PDPersonal/ Professional Learning Network (PLN)

connections and resources used for informal learning, collaboration, and exchange of knowledge and ideas (Trust, 2012, p. 133)

“a popular alternative to conventional models of professional development” (Visser, Evering & Barrett, 2014, p.396)

Found mainly within online environments – social media, wikis, podcasts, blogs

“where a group of professionals meet, engage, and share best practices with others” (Klingen-Smith, 2009) on a “regular basis and through various mediums” (Sakamoto, 2012)

Professional Development

“…something which is self-directed, inquiry-based and directly relevant to teachers’ professional lives” (Burns & Richards, 2009, p.6)

Couros (2008)

Social Media in Higher Education Survey(Seaman & Tinti-Kane, 2013)

Faculty Professional Social Media Use (n= 7969)

0 20 40 60 80

Personal

Professional

Teaching

Continuing Education

Blogs, Wikis, Podcasts, YouTube

Twitter

Facebook

Academia.edu

Formal

Informal

Academia.edu

Facebook

MOOCs (Massive Open Online Courses) & SPOCs (Small Private Online Courses)

MOOCs Mechanism for lifelong learning Enable collaborative and social engagement among students

University Teaching 101 – November 18th

Assessing and Teaching of 21st Century Skills – November 18th

Teaching Character and Creating Positive Classrooms – December 11th

Shaping the Way We Teach English, 1: The landscape of English teaching –January 5th

SPOCs restricted enrollment thus smaller numbers Course providers get to select suitable students Classes can be more interactive

Start/ Enhance your Digital Footprint Establish your presence

Academia.edu, LinkedIn

Microblogging Twitter

Online Communities Ning, Classroom 2.0

Blogs Teach100, Edublogs, Wordpress

MOOCs Coursera, EdX

A recent (September 2014) step-by-step guide to starting a PLN.

http://teacherchallenge.edublogs.org/pln-challenge-1-what-the-heck-is-a-pln/

This guide covers Twitter, Twitter Chats, Blogs, Curation Tools (Diigo, Evernote, Scoop.it etc), Webinars, and Classroom 2.0

ReferencesBurns, A. & Richards, J. C. (Eds.) (2009). The Cambridge guide to second language teacher education.

Cambridge University Press: New York.

Klingensmith, K. (2009). PLN: Your personal learning network made easy. Retrieved from https://onceateacher.wordpress.com/2009/05/05/pln-your-personal-learning-network-made-easy

Sakamoto, B. (2012) What is a PLN, anyway? [blog] Retrieved from http://www.teachingvillage.org/2012/01/03/what-is-a-pln-anyway/

Seaman, J. & Tinti-Kane, H. (2013). Social media for teaching and learning. Pearson Learning Solutions and Babson Survey Research Group.

Veletsianos, G. (Ed.) (2010). Emerging technologies in distance education. Athabasca University Press: Edmonton, CA.

Visser, R. D., Evering, L. & Barrett, D. E. (2014). #TwitterforTeachers: The implications of Twitter as a self-directed professional development tool for K-12 teachers, Journal of Research on Technology inEducation, 46(4), 396-413.

Thank You!nethi@nova.edu

amurray@edu.miyazaki-mic.ac.jp@murraysensei

www.slideshare.net/murraysensei