ABSTRACT
This chapter provides a practitioner's perspective on the present and potential uses of technology by geography teachers. Over the next decade, computers and software became more powerful and adaptable but it was the arrival of the internet which had the most significant impact on schooling and geography classrooms. A growing number of geography teachers are using social media and digital technologies in innovative ways, including using Facebook as a context for literacy development or Skype to talk to someone living a few miles from the Eyjafjallajokull volcano during the 2010 eruption. The chapter consists of some important questions on the challenges social media and digital technologies in general that can present for schools, teachers and learners. The benefits of discussing professional development are obvious. The significant changes to a teacher's professional network, approaches to networking and the wider opportunities for professional dialogue and collaboration are usefully summarised by two diagrams created by Alec Couros of the University of Regina, Canada.
