This symposium examines technology and social networking uses in teacher education but also for professional learning and physical education. It includes three presentations that outline some of its applications to set quality learning environments for secondary students and undergrads, but also for self-directed professional learning of physical education teachers. The first paper from Spain, examines the effect of using Twitter and some Google Apps, to facilitate (or not) change of first year undergrads beliefs about coaching youth sports. The second from the UK, explores the characteristics of an online Twitter-based community and how different physical education practitioners were supported in their engagement and learning. The third from Sweden, explore a specific Exergame’s contribution to a group of students’ motor skill acquisition in terms of their different ways of knowing two dance movements and discuss necessary conditions for learning and developing capability to move and the game’s potential contribution ‘as a teacher’ in relation to the potential contribution of a physical education teacher.

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