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New Social Media Micro-credentials Support Social Mobility for Adult Learners

Digital Promise

In the quickly shifting workforce, digital skills have become fundamental for social mobility. Digital Promise’s Adult Learning initiative works to expand equitable access to the digital skills, tools, and credentials that people need to succeed in today’s changing economy. Module 2: Marketing with Facebook Pages.

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Digital Activities & Icebreakers for Gen Y

Teacher Reboot Camp

GET YOUR COPY OF THE 30 GOALS FOR TEACHERS OR LEARNING TO GO , WHICH HAS DIGITAL AND MOBILE ACTIVITIES AND HANDOUTS. Get Them Learning with Digital Icebreakers from Shelly Sanchez Terrell. Give them learning missions you grade with digital badges. Check out my bookmarks for creating digital badges.

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The 7 C’s of Meaningful Learning Begin with Citizenship

Teacher Reboot Camp

Now, we communicate on different walls (Facebook, Pinterest boards, Twitter streams, Instagram, etc.), Send them on learning missions and get them to create digital badges to give to their peers to recognize bravery, kindness and compassion. Before we had an alphabet we drew on walls to communicate with others in our community.

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The 7 C’s of Meaningful Learning Begin with Citizenship

Teacher Reboot Camp

Now, we communicate on different walls (Facebook, Pinterest boards, Twitter streams, Instagram, etc.), Send them on learning missions and get them to create digital badges to give to their peers to recognize bravery, kindness and compassion. Before we had an alphabet we drew on walls to communicate with others in our community.

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Awareness, Assessment, and Access: Improving Adult Digital Literacy

Digital Promise

To address these different learning levels, RIFLI uses the Northstar Digital Literacy assessment exam as the basis for a curriculum that teaches how to use a computer to using Microsoft Excel and Word as well as social media, specifically Facebook. At the end of each course, RIFLI staff award digital badges to the students.

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Millennials: The Straw That Will Stir Higher Education’s Next Disruption

EdNews Daily

Beyond coursework, students swim in a flux of data, buffeted by phone calls, text messages, Facebook updates, Twitter tweets, news crawls, and other sources. To match the changing, unpredictable nature of today’s economy and digital landscape, these programs should aim for flexibility and innovative paradigms.

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Learning Revolution - Week's Free Events - May Is Ed Tech Month - Geo-Educators - Natural Math - Oxygen Masks and You

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

You can connect with the Geo-Educator Community through a variety of online platforms including Twitter , Facebook and the secure educator site, Edmodo. Tag your questions #eduquestion or post them on our Facebook page or Google+ community. How does your library manage digital collections? Is your library mobile friendly?