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Digital Badges: credentialing the things that make us fully human

iLearn Technology

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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Using Micro-credentials for Personalized Professional Development

Digital Promise

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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Micro-credentials: A Promising Way to Put Educators’ Skills Front and Center

Digital Promise

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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Micro-credentials: A Promising Way to Put Educators’ Skills Front and Center

Digital Promise

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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Google Masters For Kids of All Ages: Badges, Skills and More

The CoolCatTeacher

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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Can Micro-credentials Create More Meaningful Professional Development For Teachers?

MindShift

Megan Sayas, a third-grade teacher at Cushing Elementary, has taken numerous micro-credentials, often with her grade-level team. Last year Sayas tried to focus on tying together science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) concepts through design. They are considering peer reviews by teachers from other districts.

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2014 Global Education Conference - Day Three!

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

Wednesday, November 19th ( US-Eastern Time ) 1:00am Globally Connecting Classes through Interactive Learning Objects - Ezra Samantha M. Purnendu Chatterjee MAD Day from Syria Makes A Difference - Samah AlJundi Maintaining Bridges to Swaziland Via Social Media - Susan Jacques Pierson, Ph.D. Pedro Néstor Ibáñez Lic. Pedro Néstor Ibáñez Lic.