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What Is Networking Anyways?

 As the world increasingly embraces the ideas of digital connection and networking into the mainstream, everyone from working professionals to middle school students has the idea that networking is important drilled into them. However, more often then not the concept of networking is left abstract, leaving many just guessing at what building a network even means. Luckily, that's about to change because of The Connected Educator: Learning and Leading in a Digital Age , a book by Lani Ritter Hall and Sheryl Nussbaum-Beach that uses the lens of teaching to break down networks into three distinct components anyone can use in any career to improve their professional development. The subsets of networks The Connected Educator outlines start small and expand to potentially encompass entire industries. Most people reading will be quite familiar with the first, a familiar Professional Learning Community consisting of one's immediate surroundings. The idea here is to motivate workers