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Balancing Act: Cybersecurity in the Connected Classroom

EdTech Magazine

With K–12 schools leveraging connected technologies to help improve student outcomes and boost classroom collaboration, effective cybersecurity is not optional. This requires a balancing act: How do educators leverage connected technology without putting student data and other critical information at risk? The State of STEM Classrooms.

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Digital Badges Validate Skills for Special Needs Students

edWeb.net

During the edWebinar “ Digital Badge Credentials: Preparing Students with Special Needs for Employment,” the presenters discussed how and why digital badges can help students validate their training and verify their credentials with prospective employers. This article was modified and published by EdScoop.

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Game On: Teachers Should Continue to Gamify Classrooms

EdTech Magazine

Finally, microcredentials or digital badging are another terrific way to make learning more fun. Digital badging is a tool used in professional development to give teachers tangible goals. It validates their skills by giving them a badge to display. It’s a great way to break out of the old standby art lesson.

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Ozobot Classroom - STEAM learning management system coming this Fall

Educational Technology Guy

From there, educators can manage students and bots, access standards-aligned lesson recommendations, assign activities and digital badges, and use real-time insights into students’ online and offline activity to inform their teaching strategies. This post originally appeared on Educational Technology Guy.

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Learning Transformed Course

A Principal's Reflections

The current speed of technological and innovative breakthroughs has led to the coming age of workplace automation, dramatically altering the world of work that our students will enter. In addition to the digital badge awarded at the end of the course, once all requirements have been met we can also send a signed certificate of completion.

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STEAM Up Learning Outdoors! 15+ Ideas to Try Now or this Summer!

Teacher Reboot Camp

Many of the missions in my new book, Hacking Digital Learning with Missions , are aimed at inspiring students to think critically, focus on questions versus answers, conduct hands-on research, and make a difference in the world with their innovations. This article by ASCD has a nice visual and information about combining these processes.

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15 Plug-and-Play Lesson Plans from Google – SULS0198

Shake Up Learning

Kick off the school year with lessons that help students express themselves, build relationships, and stay organized while learning new technology skills. 15 Plug & Plan Lessons from #GoogleEdu Click To Tweet Listen to this article. Learn more about using the Applied Digital Skills program and set up your teacher profile here.

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