An Educational Technology Journal--Or Is It?

         For those of you who have been following this blog, then you know that I mentioned in my last post that I had been procrastinating writing my reflection because the words didn’t seem to want to leave my head. Well, that has also been the case for my field experience reflections—again, apologies to my professor!—I’m sure it seems worse in my head than it really is, but try reasoning with my brain. Nevertheless, here I am, trying my darndest to get something coherent onto virtual paper. I thank you, mysterious reader, in advance for patiently bearing with me. EDIT AS OF 12/2/2020: I have now added a more updated website for Bret Willet Staudt , and if you don't want to scroll down to get it then you can click on his name in this sentence. :)

          Thank you to all of my ever so patient loyal readers who have waited with bated breath for the second part of my experience with educational subreddits narrative!   [ 1 ] As I stated in part 1 , I had planned on using this second week to focus on two larger subreddits, r/teaching and r/Teachers as well as a small discipline specific subreddit, r/ELAteachers.

         Last week we were tasked to begin looking into educators’ use of social media platforms; Bret Staudt Willet, a Ph.D candidate in Educational Psychology and Educational Technology at Michigan State University, kicked off our assignment with a easily digestible and engaging presentation on his work in relation to this very topic. In preparation for Willet’s presentation we read an article that he co-wrote on identifying learning spaces within a teacher-focused Twitter hashtag. I was certainly surprised to learn how Twitter was repurposed as a community for educators. I was even more surprised, however, when Willet told my class that he has since started researching educators on the social media platform, Reddit . 

          Getting feedback from others helps me learn in ways I never could have by myself because the feedback provides me with different perspectives which then enables me to look at the assignment/problem from a new view. 

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