A Principal's Reflections

MARCH 4, 2018

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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Education with Technology

OCTOBER 19, 2015

Do you use grades or badges to measure your students’ progress on the standards or proficiencies? Three books of interest: Successful Student Writing Through Formative Assessment. Formative Assessment: Responding to your Students. . English Common Core Mobile Activities ebook.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 10, 2023

The COVID-19 pandemic accelerated the shift toward digital HR. Today, new technologies are reshaping employers’ talent strategies and hiring processes, including the growing use of AI-based recruitment tools, skills assessments and internal talent marketplaces.

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Digital Promise

APRIL 8, 2016

Enter micro-credentials : competency-based recognition for educator learning that is supported by digital badges. That’s why many schools are moving toward a competency-based approach, adopting performance assessments that require students to demonstrate their competence by creating and defending portfolios.

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The CoolCatTeacher

APRIL 17, 2018

And Amy, you’re working with digital badges or open badges in elementary school. What are open badges, and how does this work with elementary kids? What is a digital badge and how do students earn one? Vicki: Today we’re talking with Amy Cooper, who’s at an elementary school in Minnesota. Help us understand.

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Digital Promise

NOVEMBER 26, 2018

Meet students where they are : Partners shared strategies for handling the range of student skill levels in a class, including pre-assessing, course pacing, and additional out-of-class help and work time. Digital Promise partnered with Facebook to create a range of quick, free online courses in digital marketing and career-focused skills.

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Shake Up Learning

DECEMBER 14, 2021

27 Formative Assessment Tools for Your Classroom. In this post and podcast episode, you will find 27 Formative Assessment Tools for Your Classroom! This list has a wide variety of features and options to help you solidify your formative assessment strategies! Digital Badges in the Classroom (What, When, & How).

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EdTech Magazine

JUNE 12, 2018

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. The digital option with microcredentials gives educators the flexibility of learning approach ,” Cator adds. “As Reinforce the Need for Digital Expertise.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 26, 2019

Digital badges. Three types of edtech joined the “filmstrip” category in this decade: Learning Management Systems , MOOC s, and digital badges. They are a perfect example of what you get when you simply transfer analog practice to digital form and don’t make use of the advantages of the new medium. underwhelming.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 3, 2016

To address this challenge, we began brainstorming ideas about how to advance assessment to better promote success in these internships and students’ future college and career experiences. Next page: A unique badging model engages students. So, how do we do it? Collaborating with partners.

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Teacher Reboot Camp

MAY 5, 2018

The main assessments for schools are multiple choice tests, which punish learners if they don’t choose the right answer provided from a list of narrow options. To inspire learning in the summer add them to a digital calendar that students click on to see the activity and receive a digital badge for completing the activity.

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Edthena

MARCH 30, 2021

They offer districts an innovative way to document teachers’ skills while allowing the teachers to share their progress with others via a digital badge. A toolset for a school leader or instructional coach to review and assess the teachers’ progress. How do micro-credentials work as part of ongoing coaching?

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

Digital badges, microcredentials and digital credentials… What sets them apart, or are they synonymous? Rob Coyle Digital Credential Program Manager at 1EdTech Coyle: It seems every credentialing organization has its own definition of microcredentials, alternative credentials, digital credentials and badges.…

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Edsurge

JULY 17, 2019

To help colleges teach the character traits and interpersonal skills that companies crave, nonprofit Education Design Lab has worked since 2013 to create curriculum and assessments that culminate in students earning digital badges intended to attract hiring managers.

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Edsurge

JUNE 13, 2019

In too many of our schools, we see that administrators perceive makerspaces as environments for play rather than opportunities for enriching assessment that can indicate students’ readiness for the workforce. Yet there are still barriers that we must overcome if we hope to realize the full potential of makerspaces.

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eSchool News

JUNE 27, 2023

Connections Academy high school students also have free access to Credly to help them earn digital badges to enhance their career options. We are the world’s leading learning company, serving customers in nearly 200 countries with digital content, assessments, qualifications, and data. Credly is a Pearson business.

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Digital Promise

APRIL 17, 2019

As schools identify necessary actions within the network schools’ Theory of Action plans, educators who have learning needs in those areas (such as student engagement, assessment literacy, collaborative coaching, etc.) first check to see if there is a micro-credential available through Digital Promise.

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eSchool News

APRIL 14, 2021

SAN FRANCISCO (April 14, 2021) – Micro-credentials provide districts an innovative way to recognize teachers’ exemplar skills while allowing teachers to show their mastery of teaching skills via a digital badge. However, many districts don’t pursue this professional learning approach because they think it is too complex to get started.

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Technology Tidbits

MARCH 15, 2021

This is done through fun and engaging learning games w/ educational portal where teachers can track and monitor student progress, assign educational videos, use a digital badge system, testing, benchmarking, and much much more. Below is a brief demo. I highly recommend checking out Socrates by clicking here !!!

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Ask a Tech Teacher

SEPTEMBER 13, 2018

Awarding badges for the accomplishment of steps or completion of skills has become popular in many schools. Student digital badges show knowledge they’ve acquired that can then be posted to their personal webpage, blogs, LMSs, or anywhere else that takes digital input.

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Digital Promise

FEBRUARY 22, 2016

Micro-credentials, which provide recognition for these concrete competencies in the form of digital badges, could help facilitate this shift. Typically, at Relay, we design assessments that are tightly aligned with the instruction that we provide in our program. In fact, I see the systems as complementary.

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Digital Promise

FEBRUARY 22, 2016

Micro-credentials, which provide recognition for these concrete competencies in the form of digital badges, could help facilitate this shift. Typically, at Relay, we design assessments that are tightly aligned with the instruction that we provide in our program. In fact, I see the systems as complementary.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 16, 2018

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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The CoolCatTeacher

OCTOBER 11, 2017

She also shares her micro-credential badging approach that has her fifth graders excited to learn. Today’s Sponsor: WriQ from Texthelp is a new FREE Add-on for Google Docs that helps teachers easily assess student writing and track progress over time by automatically scoring students’ spelling, punctuation, and grammar errors.

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Shake Up Learning

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

The post Digital Badges in the Classroom (What, When, & How) – SULS096 appeared first on Shake Up Learning. Let’s talk digital badges with the experts: Cate Tolnai and Jen Gibson! Digital badges can help us engage students (even remote learners). What Are Digital Badges?

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Edsurge

APRIL 25, 2018

When students learn online, technology is the medium used to create content, assess learning, and foster interpersonal communications. Easy-to-use, video communication tools, like Zoom, Flipgrid, and VoiceThread enable one-on-one and small group conversations, regardless of geographic location.

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Technology Tidbits

APRIL 24, 2020

This is done through fun and engaging learning games w/ educational portal where teachers can track and monitor student progress, assign educational videos, use a digital badge system, testing, benchmarking, and much much more. Below is a brief demo. I highly recommend checking out Socrates by clicking here !!!

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eSchool News

AUGUST 2, 2016

As educational institutions and employers alike are moving away from macro-credentials, Chalk & Wire , a higher education assessment platform, unveiled MyMantl , a first-of-its-kind Learning Recognition Network. In addition to portfolios, MyMantl will offer digital badging tools, competency-based education program designers and job tools.

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Edsurge

JUNE 25, 2018

Many tech firms are even going directly to professionals with their own certificates and credentials—such as IBM’s digital badge program , Hubspot’s certifications , and long-running programs like Microsoft’s IT certifications.

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Technology Tidbits

AUGUST 20, 2019

This is done through fun and engaging learning games w/ educational portal where teachers can track and monitor student progress, assign educational videos, use a digital badge system, testing, benchmarking, and much much more. Below is a brief demo. I highly recommend checking out Socrates by clicking here !!!

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Technology Tidbits

MAY 13, 2019

This is done through fun and engaging learning games w/ educational portal where teachers can track and monitor student progress, assign educational videos, use a digital badge system, testing, benchmarking, and much much more. Below is a brief demo. I highly recommend checking out Socrates by clicking here !!!

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Differentiated Instruction Digital Badges Game-Based Learning System 28

Technology Tidbits

FEBRUARY 21, 2019

This is done through fun and engaging learning games w/ educational portal where teachers can track and monitor student progress, assign educational videos, use a digital badge system, testing, benchmarking, and much much more. Below is a brief demo. I highly recommend checking out Socrates by clicking here !!!

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Differentiated Instruction Digital Badges Game-Based Learning System 29

Technology Tidbits

JUNE 20, 2019

This is done through fun and engaging learning games w/ educational portal where teachers can track and monitor student progress, assign educational videos, use a digital badge system, testing, benchmarking, and much much more. Below is a brief demo. I highly recommend checking out Socrates by clicking here !!!

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Marketplace K-12

JUNE 27, 2016

Training for education software, digital applications, digital program, other digital product: 34 percent. Training for electronic/digital devices: 33 percent. Training for student assessments: 27 percent. Quizzes/assessments: 68 percent. To receive a digital badge: 10 percent.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 30, 2019

Nearpod seized an opportunity to help the classroom teacher deliver tailored lessons and assess learning in real time. Open digital badges. Shauntel Garvey (General Partner, Reach Capital): The launch of the iPad and Chromebook ushered in the age of devices in the classroom. Certain interoperability efforts.

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Graphite Blog

DECEMBER 1, 2016

Digital badging is a new practice worth examining that can make students' discrete learning goals and accomplishments more transparent and concrete. Badges can be a helpful way to motivate and assess students. Badging values the learning process, not just the final product.

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Edsurge

APRIL 4, 2018

I wanted to bring that kind of motivation to my classroom so I started transforming it into a learning environment where nearly all elements were part of a larger game, and I developed a collection of assessments and surveys to learn more about my students. In 2010, I prioritized incorporating elements of play into teaching and learning.

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