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Teachers’ Use of Social Networking Sites for Continuing Professional Development

Teachers’ Use of Social Networking Sites for Continuing Professional Development

Daniel Xerri
Copyright: © 2014 |Pages: 24
ISBN13: 9781466649040|ISBN10: 1466649046|EISBN13: 9781466649057
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-4904-0.ch022
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Xerri, Daniel. "Teachers’ Use of Social Networking Sites for Continuing Professional Development." The Social Classroom: Integrating Social Network Use in Education, edited by Gorg Mallia, IGI Global, 2014, pp. 441-464. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-4904-0.ch022

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Xerri, D. (2014). Teachers’ Use of Social Networking Sites for Continuing Professional Development. In G. Mallia (Ed.), The Social Classroom: Integrating Social Network Use in Education (pp. 441-464). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-4904-0.ch022

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Xerri, Daniel. "Teachers’ Use of Social Networking Sites for Continuing Professional Development." In The Social Classroom: Integrating Social Network Use in Education, edited by Gorg Mallia, 441-464. Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 2014. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-4904-0.ch022

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Abstract

On the basis of the results of a study conducted amongst secondary school teachers of English in Malta, this chapter explores the use of Social Networking Sites (SNS) for professional development purposes. In the digital era, SNS provide teachers with the opportunity of creating a Personal Learning Network (PLN), which is an increasingly significant way of acquiring new knowledge and enhancing pedagogical skills while also having the capacity of making teachers feel they belong to a Community of Practice (CoP). This chapter shows how despite their regular use of SNS for personal reasons, teachers do not always exploit these sites to achieve professional development. It is argued that training is a necessary means of not only enabling teachers to learn how to use such tools for such a purpose but also of redefining the way they think about the process of acquiring and sharing knowledge and skills in the 21st century.

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