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How to Create a Click and Learn Digital Calendar

Teacher Reboot Camp

Students can count the days till the break or count the days towards class starting again in 2018. In your digital calendar, you will present a nugget of learning, each day as a gift! Award a digital badge for each task as an added bonus! Feel free to add a digital badge to inspire more completion of tasks.

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5 Key Areas of Technology Professional Development for Teachers

EdTech Magazine

Fri, 09/14/2018 - 10:07. To assist the professional development process for both teachers and IT professionals, Digital Promise, in conjunction with Google , has established a new program called the Dynamic Learning Project to help introduce new education technology into the classroom. . “Our eli.zimmerman_9856.

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Game On: Teachers Should Continue to Gamify Classrooms

EdTech Magazine

Fri, 09/28/2018 - 15:49. Finally, microcredentials or digital badging are another terrific way to make learning more fun. Digital badging is a tool used in professional development to give teachers tangible goals. It validates their skills by giving them a badge to display. jena.passut_7651.

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9 Reasons You Should Join the Free Goal Minded Teacher Online Course!

Teacher Reboot Camp

I am excited to announce that after a year collaborating with INTEF (Instituto Nacional de Tecnologías Educativas y de Formación del Profesorado) and the Ministry of Education and Culture in Spain, The Goal Minded Teacher: Challenges to Transform Student Learning ( #EduGoalsMOOC ) free open online course will launch on February 13, 2018.

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Digital Skills Make a Difference for Adult Learners

Digital Promise

On October 30, 2018, partners convened at Spartan Innovation , a center at Michigan State University that spurs businesses and entrepreneurship in East Lansing to connect with and learn from each other. Digital Promise partnered with Facebook to create a range of quick, free online courses in digital marketing and career-focused skills.

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How Microcredentials Help Educators Develop New Tech Skills

EdTech Magazine

Tue, 06/12/2018 - 10:24. Also known as digital badges, these tools are increasingly used to improve student focus as well as provide a means to incentivize teachers to complete new disciplines. How Microcredentials Help Educators Develop New Tech Skills. eli.zimmerman_9856. A lot is demanded of teachers.

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Open Badges in Elementary School

The CoolCatTeacher

Date: April 17, 2018. And Amy, you’re working with digital badges or open badges in elementary school. What are open badges, and how does this work with elementary kids? What is a digital badge and how do students earn one? Help us understand. Twitter: @amycooper100.