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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

An educational leader today is one who, regardless of title, exhibits the following ten traits: -          Willingness to learn new things -          Committed to providing an excellent learning environment for those you are responsible for in your classroom, school or district -          Looks to motivate those you have immediate contact with and those outside your traditional circle of influence -          Continually self-evaluates your own place in the educational structure and adapts for the betterment of education -          Keeps a focus on what’s most important; students and their learning

Continually engages in professional development to improve your own knowledge and skills -          Develops and expands a professional learning network through connections and collaboration in social media -          Works to develop other educational leaders in the classroom, school office and central office -          Helps developing and new educators find their way so that they too can one day lead -          Gives back to the profession

. So please don't tell me to get a life.