We currently live in a world where social media dominates
the narratives that are created in our daily lives. No longer do many
individuals look to traditional news outlets, nor do those same individuals
gain their knowledge from books. The internet has become the world’s most
important invention (from a certain point of view), and it has also allowed for
communications to take place on a mass scale. However, communication, thanks to
specific web communities, is now trending in a direction that allows for more
intimate, personal conversations that can be held between members who share the
same interests.
One website that has truly taken advantage of the need
for specific web communities is
According to the website’s founders:
Reddit is a social
news aggregation, web contentrating,
and discussion website. Reddit's registered community
members can submit content, such as text posts or direct links. Registered
users can then vote submissions up or down to organize the posts and determine
their position on the site's pages. The submissions with the most positive
votes appear on the front page or the top of a category. Content entries are
organized by areas of interest called "subreddits". The subreddit
topics include news, science, gaming, movies, music, books, fitness, food, and
image-sharing, among many others. As of 2016, Reddit had 542 million monthly
visitors (234 million unique users), ranking #11 most visited web-site in US
and #25 in the world.[6] Across 2015, Reddit saw 82.54 billion
pageviews, 73.15 million submissions, 725.85 million comments, and 6.89 billion
upvotes from its users.
Most importantly, there exists many subreddits pertaining
to education, which are also ran and contributed to by educators! Check out the
following subreddits.
https://www.reddit.com/r/Education: Learn
about and discuss the news and politics of education.
https://www.reddit.com/r/Teachers: Learn
about and discuss the practice of teaching, receive support from fellow
teachers, and gain insight into the teaching profession.
https://www.reddit.com/r/TeachingResources:
Share and discover teaching resources, such as demos, blogs, simulations, and
visual aids.
https://www.reddit.com/r/EdTech
Content Area Subreddits
https://www.reddit.com
/r/AdultEducation/
https://www.reddit.com
/r/ArtEd
https://www.reddit.com
/r/CSEducation - Computer science
https://www.reddit.com
/r/ECEProfessionals - Early childhood education
https://www.reddit.com
/r/ELATeachers - English / language arts
https://www.reddit.com
/r/HigherEducation
https://www.reddit.com
/r/HistoryTeachers
https://www.reddit.com
/r/MathEducation
https://www.reddit.com
/r/MusicEd
https://www.reddit.com
/r/ScienceTeachers
https://www.reddit.com
/r/slp - Speech-language pathology
https://www.reddit.com
/r/SpecialEd
https://www.reddit.com
/r/SpanishTeachers
https://www.reddit.com
/r/Awwducational
I encourage you to check out these “subreddits” to see
the different ideas that are discussed within the educational community!
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