Understanding Professional Learning Networks (PLN)
What is PLN? “Image Source: Teaching and Learning for Social Workers A PLN is a professional learning network. It is a network of individuals, a community that can help you grow personally and in your profession. One can think of it as a trusted group of “friends”, from whom you take and give back in return. This is not an idea that is new to social media or to education. But with the advent of social media, it has become particularly easy to create and belong to a PLN and this allows us a peek into the relationship between teaching and learning. Authors like Dr. Trus t highly encourage educators to belong to or create a PLN in order to enhance their social, affective, cognitive and identity growth. While authors like Rheingold caution us about social media conversation etiquette . It seems to me that belonging to a PNL would greatly address the current teacher crisis and shortage existing in the educational field in addition to ensuring that the material ...
