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

Digital Promise

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. In 2017, we partnered with Facebook (now Meta) to design four training modules and micro-credentials in social media marketing.

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

Teacher Reboot Camp

We’d love to meet you face-to-face and interview you. Shelly Sanchez (@ShellTerrell) June 15, 2017. June 24th, catch us at the Badge Summit. We will meet there around 10 a.m. Watch our first Periscope video below to find out why this ISTE is so special for Savvy and our family! Where’s the Party? Join us Sat.,

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To Retain College Students, Look to Academic Support and Campus Activities, New Report Finds

Edsurge

To encourage students to take advantage of extracurricular activities that may improve their chances of staying enrolled and complement their classroom learning, the University of Central Oklahoma devised a system that awards digital badges for participation in events and clubs and also compiles evidence for interested future employers.

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How To Value Individual Staff Profesional Development Through Incentive Programs

TeacherCast

Step 3: Formulate a Plan that Compliments the Strategic Plan Above all, your professional development program needs to be designed to meet the needs of the district Strategic Plan. Staff members will be encouraged to earn their “High Flyer” badge in each of the C’s during those semesters. What are digital badges?

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How To Value Individual Staff Profesional Development Through Incentive Programs

TeacherCast

Above all, your professional development program needs to be designed to meet the needs of the district Strategic Plan. Professional Development will be focused on one of the 4C’s (Communication, Critical Thinking, Collaboration, Creativity) during each semester of the 2017-18, and 2018-19 school years. What are digital badges?

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

The CoolCatTeacher

Wednesday, October 11, 2017. How cool would it be for kids to have digital badges, the same way that we have (some) that are attached to our e-mails and things like that, for when we achieve our Google Certified Educators and things like that. “I have these great digital badges. Enhanced Transcript.

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