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Are Personal Learning Networks the Key to Keeping Teachers?

Edsurge

Putting the ‘Person’ in Personal Learning Networks While educators building communities to learn and share ideas isn’t new, today’s personal learning networks (PLNs) offer educators the chance to hone their focus and build their practice in specific areas of professional development.

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The Professional Learning Sweet Spot

A Principal's Reflections

For the better part of my educational career, I always referred to any type of learning to assist me as a teacher or administrator as professional development (PD). It was always referred to like this, so who was I to argue. With a PLN, I was able to learn anytime, anywhere, from anyone I wanted for free.

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Practice vs. research in education? Why teachers need to do both

Neo LMS

Sure, I’m not referring to teaching in an academic setting here. Read more: Top learning myths to leave behind in 2020. Your personal learning network (PLN)? How to access information like a pro. Teachers don’t have a lot of time on their hands to access all the information available.

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Remote Learning Teaching Tips

A Principal's Reflections

Below are some tips for teachers and administrators to assist with implementing remote learning. If digital access is a challenge, check out these practical ideas that can be implemented without any tech. Now, without further ado, here are some remote learning teaching tips. Please note that these are only suggestions.

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Building a Personal Learning Network (PLN) on Twitter

EdTechSandyK

The Personal Learning Network (PLN) that I''ve built on Twitter over the past couple of months has become an amazing resource for learning about what''s going on in the educational technology world. You can now access my Twitter related links there as well.) The list that follows is a result of that reflection.

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Stop Ignoring Google+

A Principal's Reflections

From my point of view educators become quickly attached to one specific social media tool as their go to source for his/her Personal Learning Network (PLN). Now anyone who knows me knows that I absolutely love Twitter as a professional learning and networking tool. Take Twitter for example.

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Online Learning Book Recommendations: And Why I Read so Few Books on the Topic

Edsurge

His meaning-making challenge presents three different options for demonstrating and further exploring our learning. We don’t have to be enrolled in his class to access it. In fact, he welcomes us to share what we are learning by using the class hashtag across a variety of social media.