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

Teacher Reboot Camp

Noah Geisel, @SenorG , is the first person who really taught me about the potential micro-credentials and digital badges have to motivate learners to achieve great things throughout their lives. I had used badges for my online learning conferences, but hadn’t quite used badges with students, yet.

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31 Days of Digital Goodies

Teacher Reboot Camp

Keep reading to find out how to make your own interactive digital calendar. Check out the 2013 Digital Ideas Advent Calendar for more great ideas ! Create your own interactive digital calendar with Google Docs and Thinglink , a free tool and app to make clickable images. Create Your Own. Upload this image to ThingLink.

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The Growing Potential of Micro-Credentials

A Principal's Reflections

There is a great deal of talk these days about micro-credentials and digital badging as a means to acknowledge professional learning of educators. Check out what Mozilla has created with their Open Badges platform. Acknowledging the informal learning of educators had been a long- neglected area in schools, and Ms.

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31 Days of Digital Goodies

Teacher Reboot Camp

Keep reading to find out how to make your own interactive digital calendar. Check out the 2013 Digital Ideas Advent Calendar for more great ideas ! Create your own interactive digital calendar with Google Docs and Thinglink , a free tool and app to make clickable images. Create Your Own. Upload this image to ThingLink.

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Change is a Mindset

A Principal's Reflections

Heck, our education system has become so good at maintaining the status quo and enforcing compliance throughout that we and many others have been brainwashed into thinking any other course of action would be foolish. If education is good for one thing it is making excuses not to move forward.

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The school that connects STEM, badging, and life beyond the classroom

eSchool News

As educators, we know that science is not just a body of knowledge, but it is a process that enables people to answer questions through scientific inquiry. We used this rich information, as well as teacher proposed learning progressions on science and engineering practices to build digital badges that validate mastery of skills and practices.

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How Well Do Soft-skill Badges Work for Job Seekers? New Study Aims to Find Out.

Edsurge

To help colleges teach the character traits and interpersonal skills that companies crave, nonprofit Education Design Lab has worked since 2013 to create curriculum and assessments that culminate in students earning digital badges intended to attract hiring managers.

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