Do you know how you could get help from thousands of people who want to be a teacher as well as you do? Personal learning network is a good tool to ask professional questions, share ideas or simply talk about how teachers as you could improve their learning experience of their students. People always learn from others when they are doing the same thing, but with a different manner. It is a very good way to learn from your peers, but it could also be very interesting for your students to learn from you.
In fact, how can you reach the students who never participate or dare asking questions out loud in class? If you haven't noticed it yet, you will quickly realize that the students who participate in class represent a very small minority of the total of your students. How can you help the others who are maybe to shy to share their ideas or ask questions? Personal learning network will help you reach these students.
Teachers should create a blog and ask the students to participate only if they want to. I'm sure you will be very surprised to see how many participants will join you on your blog. I think teachers must use it when they are teaching to a big amount of students. It's always hard to answer all the questions during class time, especially when you have about 200 students.
When students ask questions on the blog, teachers also have more time and more information to give to their answers which will be consequently more meaningful.
When a teacher uses one of the social learning networks, it clearly proves that he always wants to learn and improve his teaching experience. Being a teacher doesn't mean that we are not the ones who are not supposed to learn anymore, we still have a lot of information to acquire to improve the learning of our students.
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