“Nobody else organized”: teachers solving problems of practice in the Twitterblogosphere

Abstract

ABSTRACT The purpose of this paper was to examine the relationship between the problems of practice teachers encounter and social media use. In this study seven teacher bloggers were interviewed about their professional use of blogs and Twitter. Data from the interviews were compared with data from teachers’ blogs and Twitter networks. Results indicated that each participant saw being able to choose which problem of practice on which they would work, as well as with whom they would work on these problems, as benefits of virtual networks.