Why PLN's are beneficial by Chantal Charest

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PLN's allow us to gain knowledge, share resources and perspective from other educators worldwide

"Your "Personal Learning Network" or PLN is the group of people who feed your learning head"

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Kamenetz, A. (2011, August 5). 8 Ways To Build Your Personal Learning Network With Twitter, Google Plus, And More. Retrieved from: http://bit.ly/1ub73md [Accessed: January 16, 2015].

It allows you to connect, collaborate and communicate with other teacher world wide.

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Trust, T. (2013, January 31). Building a Professional Learning Network and Avoiding Information Overload. Retrieved from: http://bitly.com/Pf6aKJ

[Accessed: January 16, 2015)

A PLN helps you with lifelong learning

cechares — 2015-01-16 04:04:12 UTC

It helps you learn new things and enables you to grow. When you are partaking in a PLN you are walking along side others and stealing their ideas to your advantage in order to grow as a teacher.

Gain outside information and are able to stay connected with students and parents outside of the classroom setting

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It even allows for the educator to work with their students out of the classroom setting and allows them a more modern way to communicate and do class work.

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