Social media platforms host various self-directed educator professional activities. There are signs of substantial educator use of the discussion forum website Reddit, which offers affordances around anonymity. However, educators' Reddit use has received limited attention from researchers. To address this literature gap, we collected 42 months of activity in two subreddits: r/education and r/Teachers. Qualitative analysis of 1600 purposefully sampled contributions suggested that the subreddits were distinct, with r/Teachers functioning as a virtual teachers' lounge and r/education primarily hosting education policy discussion. Spaces that feature moderated anonymity may offer supportive opportunities for educators’ professional learning.

社交媒体平台举办各种自我指导的教育工作者专业活动。有迹象表明，教育工作者大量使用讨论论坛网站Reddit，该网站提供了有关匿名的能力。但是，教育工作者对Reddit的使用受到研究人员的关注有限。为了解决这一文献差距，我们在两个子项目中收集了42个月的活动：r /教育和r /教师。对1600个有目的抽样的贡献的定性分析表明，子查询是截然不同的，其中r / Teachers充当虚拟教师的休息室，而r / education主要主持教育政策的讨论。具有适度匿名性的空间可能为教育工作者的专业学习提供支持机会。