Week 9 – Teachers Use of Social Media for Professional Learning

 

This post relates to the article by Prestridge, S. (2019) relative to how it is becoming apparent that teachers are using social media for self-generated professional development as opposed to traditional scheduled and formalized PD. The articles investigates how teachers are doing this. The article identifies how teachers are creating self-sustaining models of content development, with a focus on agency, interaction and generational coalesce. While I was reading this article the term produsage came to mind as this context highlighted not just consumption but also the contribution of content to facilitate development, connection relative to contemporary contexts.

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