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Digital Badges: Better Than Grades?

Education with Technology

Teachers understand that the grade in a course consists of many different factors such as homework, participation , projects, tests, etc. Badges allow teachers to focus specifically on student standards or proficiencies. Blodget observes that sometimes grades reflect attitude, effort, ability and behavior ( [link] ).

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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. Data entry. Discipline.