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Awareness, Assessment, and Access: Improving Adult Digital Literacy

Digital Promise

Assessment. This is not the case when assessing its students’ digital literacy levels. Tashjian and her staff offer mixed-level classes for now, but the educators must spend more time assessing the needs their students have as they walk in the door. But lending the tablets is only part of the access puzzle.

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Digital Badges Validate Skills for Special Needs Students

edWeb.net

During the edWebinar “ Digital Badge Credentials: Preparing Students with Special Needs for Employment,” the presenters discussed how and why digital badges can help students validate their training and verify their credentials with prospective employers. Many times, though, the problem is also a communication gap.

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Learning Transformed Course

A Principal's Reflections

All of these experiences empowered us to think about and then create a deep learning experience that could be easily accessible to all educators across the globe. Course Objectives Participants will: Self-assess current beliefs and established practices to develop a call to action. Anyone can register HERE.

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What Problems Has Edtech Solved, and What New Ones Did It Create?

Edsurge

Hyper-stimulating media pervades their worlds, social media culture makes them feel inadequate, and existential pressures of economic, community and environmental decline hover over their futures. Nearpod seized an opportunity to help the classroom teacher deliver tailored lessons and assess learning in real time.

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Digital Leadership – LIVE Blog of Eric Sheninger Keynote at Leading Future Learning 2015

EdTechTeacher

Social Media is a Game Changer. However, in 2009, he came to the revelation that social media would help him become a more effective communicator. At that point, he saw that social media was a gateway to what’s possible. Digital Leadership is about telling your story better than anyone else.

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Support English Learners with Micro-credentials from Digital Promise

Ask a Tech Teacher

Digital devices, be they iPads, laptops, Chromebooks, Macs, or PCs, give students access to endless amounts of web-based resources for research, inquiry, collaboration, sharing, and more. They learn these topics and then demonstrate competency via varied forms of assessment. . are offered online in a self-paced environment.

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A Process for Implementing Student Digital Projects

Teacher Reboot Camp

These digital projects, or what I often call, “ learning missions ,” are adaptable and can be used to teach different age groups (children to adults) and subjects and achieve various learning objectives. Due to social media and the Internet all digital projects have a purpose and audience and usually some kind of message.