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Digital Badges: Naming the Badge

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Once teachers have selected what learning and what digital badges (individual or category badges; see previous blog ), the teachers encounter another decision. What will they name each badge? Will they use the full name of the Common Core Standard or the national proficiency?

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Digital Badges: Better Than Grades?

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The final grade in a course or even a ten week grade probably does not reflect the actual academic learning.These grades may not reflect the academic standards (Common Core, standards or proficiencies) for that course. Badges allow teachers to focus specifically on student standards or proficiencies.

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Can Competency-Based Education Demonstrate Mastery Across a Lifetime? #DLNchat

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Cali Morrison added: “I define CBE as personalized pace, mastery-based learning where students demonstrate mastery through authentic assessment and progress as they learn rather than after a set amount of time.”. An assessment that shows knowledge, skill and abilities in context will be a valuable asset,” she tweeted.

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Learning Revolution - Week's Free Events - May Is Ed Tech Month - Geo-Educators - Natural Math - Oxygen Masks and You

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

Wednesday, April 9th at 4pm Thinking Scientifically: Video and Formative Assessment with POPstar Robert Miller , POPstar Robert Miller - an award-winning 5th-grade teacher - hosts this interactive workshop covering inquiry-based science curriculum; the creative use of video; and one of his favorite resources, NSTA’s Formative Assessment Probes.

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2014 Global Education Conference - Day Three!

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

Purnendu Chatterjee MAD Day from Syria Makes A Difference - Samah AlJundi Maintaining Bridges to Swaziland Via Social Media - Susan Jacques Pierson, Ph.D.

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Hack Education Weekly News

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From the US Department of Education’s blog : “Building the Next Generation of Assessments in Education.” “Digital badges aren’t replacing the bachelor’s degree any time soon,” Inside Higher Ed helpfully points out. ” Online Education (The Once and Future “MOOC”).

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

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Despite predictions that badges would be the “ new credential ” and that we were looking at a “ Future Full of Badges ,” it’s not clear that digital badges have provided us with a really meaningful way to assess skills or expertise. Common Core State Standards. Wedge Tailed Green Pigeon.

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