Are you a team player or a personal pinner? situating pinterest as part of teachers’ online and offline professional learning networks

Lisa Lundgren1, Rachelle Curcio2, Stephanie E. Schroeder3
1Department of Instructional Technology and Learning Sciences, Utah State University, Logan, USA
2Instruction and Teacher Education, University of South Carolina, Columbia, USA
3Curriculum and Instruction, Pennsylvania State University, State College, USA

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Pinterest, a popular social networking site, is used as a resource by educators across all grade levels. We take the perspective that Pinterest acts as a professional learning network (PLN) and interrogate the ways that teachers share resources within online/offline PLNs. Eighty-eight teachers responded to a survey that asked about their social media use as well as their sharing of Pinterest resources with their professional colleagues. Building from the media use typology, we developed the Peer-to-Peer Pinterest Sharing Typology to describe types of sharing, finding that most respondents indicated that they did not share resources, others shared if forced to, and some shared as a way to enhance collegial collaboration. This research expands limited empirical work on both Pinterest as a PLN and on how learning and resources from online PLNs cross into school-based ones. This work will be of interest to those who seek to understand how social media sites play a role in teacher professional learning.

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