Why do teachers spend so much time on Twitter?

Today alone sixty-one Twitter education chats took place. On average about 5 million tweets per day are related to education, and that number is growing. That’s an awful lot of engagement coming from the education community, and that’s just on one of many platforms available for informal educator professional development.

For the connected educators around the world that are choosing to participate in these chats there is a big challenge in picking and choosing which chat(s) to participate in. The options are almost endless, and because of this something very special is beginning to take shape. Let me explain.

You see, the best way to be an expert at something is to be a practitioner. What these educators are practicing is the process of connected learning, and the only way to become great at connected learning is to actually do it.

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