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Interview with Noah Geisel, @SenorG: Motivate with Digital Badges!

Teacher Reboot Camp

Fast forward a few short years and now Aurora has one of the best examples of a K12 badging system in the country. I recently caught up with Noah and asked him to share his passion and expertise about digital badging. Get your copy of Hacking Digital Learning , The 30 Goals Challenge , or Learning to Go.

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State and District Leadership Discuss Digital Learning Opportunities

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SETDA’s latest research, Navigating the Digital Shift 2018: Broadening Student Learning Opportunities , highlights how state policies are supporting the transformation to digital learning. Of course, schools can’t make the switch to digital overnight.

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UMass Will Build a National Online College. But What About Its Previous Online Offshoot?

Edsurge

But the announcement fails to mention that the University of Massachusetts already runs an extensive online-learning operation, known as UMassOnline , which was started in 2001 and currently serves more than 20,000 students. So how will this new effort be different? We intend to be one of them.”

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How ‘Learning Engineering’ Hopes to Speed Up Education

Edsurge

Herbert Simon, a pioneer in artificial intelligence and learning engineering who died in 2001, is immersed in his office at Carnegie Mellon University. The window on the right looks like a typical computer desktop running the Windows operating system. A screen capture of the Acuitus digital tutor interface.

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9 Great Nonprofits to Support School Leaders

Tom Murray

AASA members range from chief executive officers, superintendents and senior level school administrators to cabinet members, professors and aspiring school system leaders. The Alliance also has run Digital Learning Day for the past five years. ASCD. Connect: www.ascd.org , @ASCD. Connect: [link] , @IELconnects.

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Digital divide: Gap is narrowing, but how will schools maintain progress?

The Hechinger Report

“We don’t have a plan, I think, that’s comprehensive enough and nationally driven on what we’re going to do if we have to go remote, and we don’t have a plan of integrating digital access more permanently into our educational systems equally,” Dr. Turner Lee says in an interview. Back to Class: How schools can rebound.

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CatchOn Joins the Education Networks of America Family of Companies

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CatchOn provides unprecedented and critical visibility into what's happening across school systems' networks, meaning district leaders can make evidence-based, real-time decisions about digital resources and application usage. Combined, ENA and CatchOn provide a rich portfolio of services to meet the demands of today's digital schools.

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