opportunity for meaningful conversations
around a wide variety of educational top-
ics, they provide the space for everyone to
add to the conversation and the learning.
There is no admission required, just jump
into the learning.
So, whether lurking or leading in the
chat, these spaces are now providing today’s
educators and educational leaders with op-
portunities for expanding the conversations
and deepen the dialogue on a wide variety
of topics and subjects that allow for learning
not only on a local, but a global level.
Educational chats on Twitter not only
expand opportunities to initiate leadership
learnability through the sharing and gaining
of knowledge, they afford us the opportunity
to build up and curate our own Professional
Learning Networks.
Which means that now, ongoing profes-
sional learning is not only available, it has
been placed at our fingertips, open 24 hours
a day, seven days week, from anywhere in
the world.
As Kevin Kelly, futurist and editor of
Wired Magazine shares, “What he thinks is
the superskill of the present and the future:
learning how to learn or optimizing our own
learning.” For which he points out, “we are
all newbies in today’s world.
Today’s leaders will need to be able to
not only initiate their own ongoing learn-
ing, but they will need to know how and
where to access and curate that learning in
order to build up the networks that support
and provide ongoing f lows of new ideas
and learning.
Maybe educational Twitter chats can
serve as an optimal space to continue your
learning journey and continue to grow your
learnability into a future superskill.
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David Culberhouse is the LCAP Program
Manager for the San Bernardino Country
Superintendent of School
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