Proactive Professional Development: A Networked Teacher
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Web 2.0 tools have allowed educators to form professional networks that would have been inconceivable a decade ago. With Personal Learning Networks (PLNs), educators not only have access to cutting edge information, resources, and lesson plans, but they can also learn about opportunities for collaboration and development. In addition to discussing the various forms of PLNs, the presenters will share some tips and resources that can be used when starting or expanding your own PLN.
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Proactive Professional Development: A Networked Teacher
- 1. Proactive Professional Development: A Networked Teacher 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
- 2. PLN and PD Personal/ 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) nethi@nova.edu Nova Southeastern University amurray@edu.miyazaki-mic.ac.jp Miyazaki International College
- 3. Couros (2008) nethi@nova.edu Nova Southeastern University amurray@edu.miyazaki-mic.ac.jp Miyazaki International College
- 4. nethi@nova.edu Nova Southeastern University amurray@edu.miyazaki-mic.ac.jp Miyazaki International College
- 5. Social Media in Higher Education Survey (Seaman & Tinti-Kane, 2013) Faculty Professional Social Media Use (n= 7969) nethi@nova.edu Nova Southeastern University amurray@edu.miyazaki-mic.ac.jp Miyazaki International College
- 6. nethi@nova.edu Nova Southeastern University amurray@edu.miyazaki-mic.ac.jp Miyazaki International College
- 7. 0 20 40 60 80 Teaching Professional Personal nethi@nova.edu Nova Southeastern University amurray@edu.miyazaki-mic.ac.jp Miyazaki International College
- 8. nethi@nova.edu Nova Southeastern University amurray@edu.miyazaki-mic.ac.jp Miyazaki International College
- 9. nethi@nova.edu Nova Southeastern University amurray@edu.miyazaki-mic.ac.jp Miyazaki International College
- 10. MOOCS Continuing Education Academia.edu Blogs, Wikis, Podcasts, YouTube Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Formal Informal nethi@nova.edu Nova Southeastern University amurray@edu.miyazaki-mic.ac.jp Miyazaki International College
- 11. LinkedIn nethi@nova.edu Nova Southeastern University amurray@edu.miyazaki-mic.ac.jp Miyazaki International College
- 12. LinkedIn nethi@nova.edu Nova Southeastern University amurray@edu.miyazaki-mic.ac.jp Miyazaki International College
- 13. Academia.edu nethi@nova.edu Nova Southeastern University amurray@edu.miyazaki-mic.ac.jp Miyazaki International College
- 14. Facebook nethi@nova.edu Nova Southeastern University amurray@edu.miyazaki-mic.ac.jp Miyazaki International College
- 15. 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 nethi@nova.edu Nova Southeastern University amurray@edu.miyazaki-mic.ac.jp Miyazaki International College
- 16. 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 nethi@nova.edu Nova Southeastern University amurray@edu.miyazaki-mic.ac.jp Miyazaki International College
- 17. Links 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 nethi@nova.edu Nova Southeastern University amurray@edu.miyazaki-mic.ac.jp Miyazaki International College
- 18. References Burns, 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 in Education, 46(4), 396-413. nethi@nova.edu Nova Southeastern University amurray@edu.miyazaki-mic.ac.jp Miyazaki International College
- 19. Thank You! nethi@nova.edu amurray@edu.miyazaki-mic.ac.jp @murraysensei www.slideshare.net/murraysensei nethi@nova.edu Nova Southeastern University amurray@edu.miyazaki-mic.ac.jp Miyazaki International College
Notes de l'éditeur
- VN In our title, we urge you to focus on the word, “proactive” and the term “a networked teacher”. Being “proactive” is to actively seek out professional development. And we already do this in many ways, for example, being here at a Conference! We meet old friends and make new ones – these are people we can network with, bounce ideas off, learn new things from. Sometimes in our isolated classrooms, we grow complacent through a lack of contact with like-minded individuals interested in the same issues. This contact shakes us out of stagnation/ boredom, ‘same old, same old’ by bombarding us with new ideas, exciting developments, new debates, etc BUT how often do we get the opportunity to interact like this? The cost, time away from our teaching and other duties make this a rather measured indulgence we allow ourselves from time to time. But how else can we keep current, keep excited and refreshed in our thinking about our field to ensure that we can teach in ways that gets our students excited and engaged? Thus a “proactive” educator needs to reach out to others in his field through various means, particularly those enabled by advances in technology. Hence the networked teacher and he/ she will do do this by setting up his or her own PERSONAL/ PROFESSIONAL LEARNING NETWORK (or PLN).
- VN Here we compare the definitions of PLNs and professional development. We see that, (as in many other areas), technology has completely revolutionized the way in which we can go about professional development. To a great extent, individuals now have far more autonomy, flexibility and range of strategies to choose from, in pursuing their professional development.
- AM As you can see, the networked teacher has a lot of tools at their disposal. To be perfectly honest, the number of options available can be overwhelming, especially for those who are considering or just starting a PLN. As you can see, the networked teacher has a lot of tools at their disposal. To be perfectly honest, the number of options available can be overwhelming, especially for those who are considering or just starting a PLN. Curriculum documents, we all work with them – at various levels of details and frequently discuss our courses with colleagues. Family and community to a lesser degree are sources for interaction but everything else here is TECHNOLOGY ENABLED.
- AM The Pearson study looks only at social media use and limits it to the most well-known sites and tools: Facebook, Linkedin, Twitter, Podcasts, Wikis and blogs.
- VN The Pearsons publishing group were interested in how and to what extent university faculty utilize social media. They conducted the Social Media in Higher Education Survey in 2013 This online survey was conducted on a sample of nearly 8000 participants. They were representative of higher education faculty in the US, across the various disciplines and age groups. 2/3 of them were full-time faculty members About 1/4 teach online About 1/4 have over 20 years or more of teaching experience And slightly more than 50% were female. Social media use is defined as faculty using one of more of the following Web 2.0 tools: LinkedIn Blogs & Wikis Facebook Podcasts Twitter
- VN As can expected, the #1 professional networking site, LinkedIn, is most used for professional purposes. LinkedIn – 32.8% Blogs & Wikis – 25.3% Facebook – 23.4% Podcasts – 14.3% Twitter – 9.4%
- VN The same participants were also asked to indicate their use of social media for PERSONAL USE as well as, in their TEACHING. The findings show that: 70% report using social media for their Personal use as compared to 55% for Professional use and only 40% use it in their Teaching One explanation could be that some faculty have the technology skills but maybe not the knowledge of the specific tools to enable them to use social media for professional use
- VN As the figure shows, professional use of social media by all age groups has increased from 2012-2013. The largest increase has been in faculty members over 45 years in age.
- VN The use of social media among faculty has increased across disciplines from 2012 to 2013..
- AM We believe that given the current arena of technological advances, the definition of social media use used in the Pearson study is rather limited… In order to have an effective PLN, there needs to be a balance of what we are calling “informal” and “formal” components. On the left side are the informal components: LinkedIN, Academia.edu, Facebook, Twitter, Blogs, Wikis, Podcasts and YouTube. On the right side are the formal components: MOOCs and Continuing Education.
- AM On LinkedIn, there are numerous online communities for educators. For example, the EFL – English as a Foreign Language community which is pictured on the slide currently has 47,418 members from around the world. Other large communities include Higher Education Teaching and Learning (HETL – 50,666) and ELT Professionals Around the World (31,682 members)
- AM Obviously, a group of 50,666 members is too large so there are also subgroups which are significantly smaller. For example, the Technology in Teaching and Learning subgroup has a “mere” 1,918 members.
- AM LinkedIn is for professionals in any field. As the name suggests, Academia.edu is a site for educators and researchers. This is an excellent site to share your academic papers with professionals around the world. When you log into the site, a newsfeed is generator and you are notified of the activities of the people you follow. In addition to the people that you are following, you are notified when papers that are marked with keywords that you are interested in are uploaded to the site. For example, my research interests are educational technology which has over 100,000 educators and 5,000 documents on the site.
- AM Although many people see Facebook as a site for personal networking with friends and family, it is not limited to that. Like LinkedIn, Facebook has open and closed groups which can be an easy and effective way to expand your PLN. I personally belong to several professional groups. Here is a screenshot of the most useful group that I current belong to – a student run group for students in the Instructional Technology and Distance Education concentration at Nova Southeastern University.
- VN The MOOC hasn’t caught on as expected; the massive numbers and online delivery has led to mostly one-way communication, highly western-skewed audiences and very high dropout rates.
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