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dc.contributor.author | Xerri, Daniel | - |
dc.date.accessioned | 2023-11-21T15:39:49Z | - |
dc.date.available | 2023-11-21T15:39:49Z | - |
dc.date.issued | 2014 | - |
dc.identifier.citation | Xerri, D. (2014). Teachers’ use of social networking sites for continuing professional development. In Ġ. Mallia (Ed.), The social classroom: Integrating social network use in education (pp. 441-464). Hershey: IGI Global. | en_GB |
dc.identifier.uri | https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/115808 | - |
dc.description.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. | en_GB |
dc.language.iso | en | en_GB |
dc.publisher | IGI Global | en_GB |
dc.rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/restrictedAccess | en_GB |
dc.subject | Professional learning communities | en_GB |
dc.subject | English language -- Study and teaching | en_GB |
dc.subject | Social media in education | en_GB |
dc.subject | Teachers -- Social conditions | en_GB |
dc.title | Teachers’ use of social networking sites for continuing professional development | en_GB |
dc.title.alternative | The social classroom : integrating social network use in education | en_GB |
dc.type | bookPart | en_GB |
dc.rights.holder | The copyright of this work belongs to the author(s)/publisher. The rights of this work are as defined by the appropriate Copyright Legislation or as modified by any successive legislation. Users may access this work and can make use of the information contained in accordance with the Copyright Legislation provided that the author must be properly acknowledged. Further distribution or reproduction in any format is prohibited without the prior permission of the copyright holder | en_GB |
dc.description.reviewed | peer-reviewed | en_GB |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.4018/978-1-4666-4904-0.ch022 | - |
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