The CoolCatTeacher
APRIL 17, 2018
Some elementary classrooms are using self-directed badges for competency acquisition by students. Open Badges in Elementary School. Vicki: Today we’re talking with Amy Cooper, who’s at an elementary school in Minnesota. And Amy, you’re working with digital badges or open badges in elementary school.
iLearn Technology
JULY 10, 2016
Two weeks ago, I attended the Digital Badge Summit in Denver, CO. I’ve been somewhat hesitant to jump into digital badges world (despite knowing the digital badge ninja, @senorg) because I feared that digital badges were just one more way to categorize and label kids, another carrot to dangle in the classroom.
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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.
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.
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.
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.
MindShift
FEBRUARY 15, 2017
Megan Sayas, a third-grade teacher at Cushing Elementary, has taken numerous micro-credentials, often with her grade-level team. She wasn’t completely sure how to do that, although she knew it was one of the goals for elementary science, so she took a micro-credential on how to incorporate design thinking into her class.
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