week 3. reading summary & reflection

Staudt Willet (2023) 

  • Early-career teachers use social media for different purposes, as they face practical difficulties, such as disparity between their teaching philosophy and the school’s direction and lack of resources, when they first start their teaching career. They separate social media based on their intention: Facebook for emotional support, and Teachers Pay Teachers for educational materials. 

Dennen (2026)

  • Networked knowledge activities include a sequence of collecting, curating, sharing, brokering, negotiating, creating, and networking. Through this process, lurkers become networkers. Liminal spaces support lurkers in practicing integration into networks. Therefore, educational institutes must provide these scaffolds for learners to build their own professional learning networks (PLN).

Krutka et al. (2017)

  • Teachers tend to build PLN with others with similar interests, and sometimes they cannot apply PLN in education. These authors suggest a framework to expand PLN with three elements: people, spaces, and tools. They also suggest reflective activities for PLN: identification, reflection, and intention. With this 3x3 matrix, teachers should critically reflect and develop their PLN collaboratively and recursively.

Perry (2026)

  • This author considers YouTube as a linguistic marketplace, where linguistic tradition is exchanged for professional or academic values. In this perspective, content consumers are important for evaluating linguistic content as they influence the number of views and interact through comments. 


While reading Dennen (2026), I found that learners face several difficulties when building professional learning networks, including time constraints, information overload, personal discomfort, and privacy concerns. I could especially empathize with personal discomfort and imposter syndrome, which is also related to the spotlight effects I mentioned in the previous post. Even as I write my reflection, I don’t feel confident that I understood the literature correctly, and I’m also worried that my writing is bad. I like being helped by online professional learning networks as a lurker, and at the same time, I want to share my thoughts or online materials, but I am still worried about facing criticism. (and even when reading peer reviews of conference proposals! haha) Also, since someone could track my information and figure out who I am, I am a bit reluctant to share my thoughts and personal information freely, such as my daily life. However, to expand my PLN, I will read peers' posts on discussion boards and blogs and leave comments.

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