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As far as growth and understanding the changes and the trends

and really just learning tools and resources, that really started for me in social media.

I think the technologies that have been the biggest

game-changer for me as a teacher have been social media, primarily,

because it connects me to other teachers around the world.

Twitter is the most -- the best way to engage in professional development.

It's one of those neat things: You're in a Twitter chat

and I just feel like there's just this energy for the hour of the chat, typically.

It's the support and the connections that educators make with each other

that I think makes all the difference My, my network.

My community.

There are just so many awesome educators on all the different social media channels

so it's really helped me connect to a broader world of resources

and that's made me a better teacher and that's made the experience better for

my students We started off with don't have teacher accounts

that you connect with your kids and now it seems to be a shift and

in that shift, we're almost emphasizing the fact that

that PD is necessary.

And just talking to other educators learning from them, being able to bounce back

ideas and sometimes I might not know everything

so it's always someone else that's been in that

particular situation.

Those connections between themes can really help us to produce cross-curricular

connections in our own educational spaces,

so being open to what others are doing way outside your area is very important

But, to me, that's where I'm getting the ideas that's where I'm finding out the resources

it's other people.

Essentially, you're finding the people that are very passionate about being educators

they're taking time outside of their normal hours

to go and learn so that they can be the best for their kids

and when you're surrounded by people like that,

it's contagious.

With 7 billion people in the world, we all look like a dot on a map

but when we zoom out, and we start to connect the dots

then we start making a beautiful picture No teacher should have to reinvent the wheel

and I'm sort of paying it forward, or paying it backward maybe?

For everyone who helped me, I want to help everybody else, too.

so that we can stand on the shoulders of other people

who have done great work and help all of our kids be great learners.