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Digital Badges Validate Skills for Special Needs Students

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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. This article was modified and published by EdScoop.

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Learning Transformed Course

A Principal's Reflections

It alters the use of authentic assessments, how technology is leveraged, the spaces in which the learning occurs, the way educators grow professionally, how schools collaborate with the community, and the sustainability of the system as a whole.

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

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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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Address Learning Differences with These Micro-credentials from @DigitalPromise

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As a result, educators must learn on the job, by reading articles, attending workshops (if they are offered and able) and speaking to others face-to-face and online. Assessment and credit Upon completion of each micro-credentials teachers submit their work to assessors who determine if the educator has successfully demonstrated competency.

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Address Learning Differences with These Micro-credentials from @DigitalPromise

The Innovative Educator

As a result, educators must learn on the job, by reading articles, attending workshops (if they are offered and able) and speaking to others face-to-face and online. Assessment and credit Upon completion of each micro-credentials teachers submit their work to assessors who determine if the educator has successfully demonstrated competency.

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How Micro-Credentials Support Professional Learning

edWeb.net

For example, Digital Promise provides digital badges users can share via social media. Finally, there are criteria for how the user can demonstrate mastery of the skill and how to submit the evidence, as well as a rubric for assessment. This edWeb broadcast was sponsored by Digital Promise.

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Making Time vs Finding Time

A Principal's Reflections

Through social media a Personal Learning Network (PLN) provides a great antidote to the age-old time excuse. While online consider making some time to learn and then apply a new skill while earning a digital badge to acknowledge your informal learning. Carve out some time each day if possible. Image credit: [link].