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Using Micro-credentials for Personalized Professional Development

Digital Promise

The collaborative data analysis process helps the school frame a systemic problem of practice that can best be solved by the entire school staff. first check to see if there is a micro-credential available through Digital Promise. Personalized PD strengthens both individual and group skills.

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The Power of Positive Climate and Culture

EdTechTeam

Digital Badging. Teachers can videotape events in their room to share with support leaders or the Culture and Climate Team for analysis and debriefing. Eileen Fernandez-Parker is an Innovation and Digital Learning Coach in Charleston County School District, SC. Track data all year with celebrations and share-outs.

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Educators Connect Learning Through Citizen Science

Educator Innovator

Teachers attend intensive weekend and summer trainings to walk through the entire process, from framing a research question to data collection, peer review, analysis, reflection, and creation of final projects. We were the students and they showed us how you might introduce it to your class.”.

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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. New Forms of Credentials.

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'Robots Are Coming For Your Jobs'

Hack Education

But this year, I’m reorganizing my analysis of these “trends,” partly because I think they can all be subsumed under the larger theme of “the new economy.” MIT will issue digital diplomas on the blockchain. And Northeastern has teamed up with IBM to put digital badges on the blockchain.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

Getting Smart and the XQ Institute have released a “landscape analysis of competency-based education.” More PR from Techcrunch : “ Nintendo is bringing Labo kits to elementary schools.” SNHU and LRNG are merging “to Create ‘ WeWork for Education ’ Via Digital Badges and Mini-Campuses.”