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Digital Badges: Better Than Grades?

Education with Technology

The final grade in a course or even a ten week grade probably does not reflect the actual academic learning.These grades may not reflect the academic standards (Common Core, standards or proficiencies) for that course. Badges allow teachers to focus specifically on student standards or proficiencies.

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In 2019, What’s REALLY the Definition of a Teacher?

EdNews Daily

Advertising does this, the news does this, so does professional mentoring, documentaries, books, videos and of course mothers and fathers. They deliver specific chunks of knowledge that are outlined by academic standards and required by school policy in the curriculum, not random tangents of knowledge.