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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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Savvy’s Interviews: Badge Summit, Finland, & #PassTheScopeEDU

Teacher Reboot Camp

Below, watch the live video interviews baby Savvy conducted with Noah Geisel and Derek Larson who talk about why digital badges and #PassTheScopeEDU. He talked about digital badging and the Finnish education system. Noah Geisel: Why Digital Badges? Shelly Sanchez (@ShellTerrell) June 24, 2017.

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Get Inspired Whether You’re at #ISTE2017 or #NotAtISTE

Teacher Reboot Camp

Follow us on Twitter, @ShellTerrell , to catch the livestream or to catch up with us during the conference. Shelly Sanchez (@ShellTerrell) June 15, 2017. June 24th, catch us at the Badge Summit. Watch our first Periscope video below to find out why this ISTE is so special for Savvy and our family! Where’s the Party?

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Who Owns Digital Badges? A Company's Patent on Credential System Raises Questions

Edsurge

What the badges community built, she argues, should count as “prior art” (that's patent language for proof that an idea someone is trying to claim is not actually new). Originally, the curriculum and textbook giant Pearson filed for the pair of patents in 2017, on behalf of the online credential product it made at the time called Acclaim.

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Savvy’s Interviews: Student Voice, UDL, Makerspaces & More

Teacher Reboot Camp

Barbara Bray ( @BBray27 ) shared her work with Universal Design Learning, digital badges, and makerspaces. Shelly Sanchez (@ShellTerrell) June 23, 2017. Shelly Sanchez (@ShellTerrell) June 24, 2017. Baby Savvy was excited to catch up with two of our favorite educators. Enjoyed this post?

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TONS of #ISTE17 Pro Tips, Resources, & Events (including #NOTATISTE)!

EdTechnocation.com

It's one of the biggest international EdTech conferences of the year! My passion is sharing , and so I'll be doing a lot of that at ISTE 2017! From pre-conferences, meetups, workshops, BYODs, Playgrounds, and more, I'll be all over ISTE this year! There is A LOT going on at the ISTE conference! Are you going?

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Google Masters For Kids of All Ages: Badges, Skills and More

The CoolCatTeacher

Wednesday, October 11, 2017. I was at a conference, actually with my husband, and he is in the hotel business. There were these bags that we had been given, and I thought, “Wouldn’t it be so cool for the kids to earn pins or badges? “I have these great digital badges. Enhanced Transcript.

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