Learning through peer-to-peer: webinars

Is there anyone so wise as to learn by the experience of others?
-Voltaire.

Before starting, it is necessary to explain what a webinar is. According to Gegenfurtner and Ebnerb (2019), it is a web-based seminar. In there, participants communicate through the Internet across distant locations using virtual platforms and interact ubiquitously and synchronously in real-time via voice and web camera equipment. In our case, webinars are also those spaces in which we have different featured speakers. We speak about topics related to teaching, for instance, lesson planning or translanguaging. I consider they are an excellent idea for us to learn from different people than the professor. I am not saying our professor is not good, but it is always cool to have more than one guide.

In the webinars, we do not have just expert teachers with decades of experience, but we can also hear young new teachers. It is a brilliant opportunity to listen to them talking about their experience because most of us are just two years from being in their place. Even if I appreciate a lot the long experience of university teachers, it is important for us to learn from teachers that are just discovering.
I addition, things can change a lot in a short time. School is probably not the same as when we were there as current students. For example, one of the featured speakers showed us how he was teaching to code in English. When I was a child, I never saw anything about it. Our university teachers always try to maintain updated about how schools are. However, learning about it is not the same as living it. Some of our professors have a long time without giving classes in an elementary school. That is why I consider it is so important to hear what different teachers have to tell us.

Learning from different people from usual is regarding and suitable to our development as future teachers because this way we can have a view through different experiences.