An Educational Technology Journal--Or Is It?

          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 .