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Motivate Students with Digital Badges

Teacher Reboot Camp

Part of the December 2019 STEM Resources Digital Calendar ! Motivate students with digital badges. The Mac Arthur Foundation defines a digital badge as “an assessment and credentialing mechanism that is housed and managed online. ” A digital badge looks similar to a Girl Scout or Boy Scout patch.

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STEAM Up Learning Outdoors! 15+ Ideas to Try Now or this Summer!

Teacher Reboot Camp

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. Group students to experiment with designing and testing out their designs for creating kites, paper airplanes, rockets, or ships.

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Open Badges in Elementary School

The CoolCatTeacher

On April 26, celebrate PowerofEcon on Twitter with Discovery Education, CME Group, and their Econ Essentials Program. To join the celebration, tune into the Twitter chat with me, fellow teachers, and the CME Group’s chief economist on April 26th at noon Eastern Time, using #PowerofEcon. Help us understand. Twitter: @amycooper100.

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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. Learn more about our work.

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New Ways to Gamify Learning

Ask a Tech Teacher

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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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.