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Pearson’s Connections Academy Launches New College and Career Prep Initiative

eSchool News

Connections Academy high school students also have free access to Credly to help them earn digital badges to enhance their career options. Credly is a Pearson business.

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The school that connects STEM, badging, and life beyond the classroom

eSchool News

During the last three years, the DLA science department has worked hard to make learning social, emotional, and linked to the science-based internships that our scholars access during 11th and 12th grade. (We Next page: A unique badging model engages students. So, how do we do it? Collaborating with partners.

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Turning ‘Google Maps for Education’ From Metaphor to Reality

Edsurge

But in the field of education, we don’t even have a complete set of static competency frameworks for digital data that are openly accessible and interoperable—to say nothing of dynamic data that support real-time pathway optimization. To bridge the gulf, it will take a similar open-data ecosystem to support learner navigation.

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15 Google Classroom Tips for Teachers

Shake Up Learning

Mindy Barron suggests you create a special topic for resources and class materials and keep it near the top for easy access. Use a Google Doc as a Syllabus (Secondary). You could even gamify this idea and give digital badges for accomplishing a task or challenge. Most teachers do not have this kind of access.

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Planning for the Total Cost of Edtech Initiatives

edWeb.net

Her previous experiences include being a classroom business teacher at the high school and post-secondary levels, assistant director of a vocational cooperative, principal at East Noble High School, and assistant superintendent at East Noble School Corporation. Randy was a Tech & Learning Magazine runner-up for 2017 digital leaders.

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3 Big Issues We Heard About at SXSWedu

Wired Campus

. — Student privacy, easier-to-use digital tools for instructors, and efforts to offer alternative credentials were some of the most-talked-about topics this week at the South by Southwest Edu conference, an offshoot of the popular South by Southwest music festival. Mitchell L. New Forms of Credentials.

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

Hack Education

The real digital divide, this article contends, is not that affluent children have access to better and faster technologies. (Um, There are, of course, vast inequalities in access to technology — in school and at home and otherwise — and in how these technologies get used. Um, they do.) Wedge Tailed Green Pigeon.

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