The Social Media Myth The myth about social media in the classroom is that if you use it, kids will be Tweeting, Facebooking and Snapchatting while you're trying to teach. We still have to focus on the task at hand. Don't mistake social media for socializing. They're different -- just as kids talking as they work in groups or talking while hanging out are different

Turnaround Case Studies by ERS Strategies: Denver Case Study Education Resource Strategies analyzed strategies to turn around low-performance schools undertaken by six large urban districts and four education management organizations and then developed 10 case studies. The attached case study is about school turnaround in Denver Public Schools.

“As kids are creating projects like this, they’re learning to code, but even more importantly, they’re coding to learn. Because as they learn to code, it enables them to learn many other things, opens up many new opportunities for learning. Again, it’s useful to make an analogy to reading and writing. When you learn to read and write, it opens up opportunities for you to learn so many other things. When you learn to read, you can then read to learn. And it’s the same thing with coding. If you learn to code, you can code to learn. Now some of the things you can learn are sort of obvious. You learn more about how computers work. But that’s just where it starts. When you learn to code, it opens up for you to learn many other things.”

The school in blue and green, surrounding the child, acting as the hub that provides the full range of learning and health support systems to each child, in each school, in each community The community, represented in orange, demonstrating that while the school may be a hub, it remains a focal reflection of its community and requires community input, resources, and collaboration in order to support its students The child in the center, at the focal point and surrounded by the whole child tenets: healthy, safe, engaged, supported, and challenged

Teachers can connect to their students on a wider level as well as on a personal level.Interactions can be taken beyond the classroom as Twitter is omnipresent in our smartphones and laptops.Twitter allows for customization of learning depending on the student i.e. differentiating learning for different students.Twitter can be used to quickly connect to multimedia resources (e.g. YouTube or Vine) and turn education into edutainment.Twitter gives new opportunities to connect to other learning communities and new educational content.The very nature of Twitter – brief and to-the-point makes for rapid broadcast of learning

Minecraft is a game about breaking and placing blocks. At first, people built structures to protect against nocturnal monsters, but as the game grew players worked together to create wonderful, imaginative things. It can also be about adventuring with friends or watching the sun rise over a blocky ocean. It’s pretty. Brave players battle terrible things in The Nether, which is more scary than pretty. You can also visit a land of mushrooms if it sounds more like your cup of tea