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Integration of Digital Badges to Acknowledge Professional Learning

A Principal's Reflections

I am proud to announce Worlds of Learning @ New Milford High School , a digital badge professional learning platform. For some time now, we have been hearing about digital badges and how they can be used to guide, motivate, document and validate formal and informal learning. ?In

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Designing Pathways for Rural Learners Using Micro-credentials: Four Case Studies

Digital Promise

Funding is being used to develop a digital badging and pathway system that will interface with the K-12 digital badging and pathways system. Digital Promise partnered with TSU to document the piloting of their initiative, which was impacted by the persistent challenges presented by the COVID-19 pandemic.

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How Microcredentials Help Educators Develop New Tech Skills

EdTech Magazine

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. Platforms such as Digital Promise allow teachers to log in and upload proof of completion.

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OPINION: Our workforce must be ready to help growing numbers of students who come to school learning English

The Hechinger Report

Yet despite some efforts to document the experiences and outcomes of multilingual learners in the district, a legal monitor noted last year that Boston’s school leaders had defied requests for records showing how it spent its funds. Similarly, in Newark, a recent investigation by the U.S. Unfortunately, these failings are all too common.

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Higher Ed Should Pay Attention to the Corporate World’s Growing Use of Skills Data

Edsurge

However, the educational alternatives to degrees, including various types of microcredentials , continue to grow — in part because they are more affordable, are often better connected to the needs of employers, and also because they are highly accessible and digitally delivered.

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Issuing Micro-Credentials to Your Teachers Can Reward Competency

Edthena

Micro-credentials are an emerging method for helping teachers document their professional learning. They offer districts an innovative way to document teachers’ skills while allowing the teachers to share their progress with others via a digital badge. Yes, it’s really that simple!

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Join Maine’s Learning Through Technology Team!

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Increasing access with a focus on learning. iLearnMaine Educator Micro-credentials – The first state program to leverage micro-credentials and digital badging for professional learning. We are partnering with Digital Promise. The country’s largest 1to1 (serving 66,000 students and 14,000 teachers).