Digital Promise

MARCH 12, 2019

PBS and KQED offer a set of free media literacy micro-credentials that validate media literacy skills and classroom implementation practices. Read on to learn more, or get started here. Register for our informational webinar on March 19 at 3pm PDT. This blog post originally appeared on KQED.org. How it works.

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Digital Promise

APRIL 17, 2019

Using available micro-credentials from Digital Promise, each educator can create a personalized professional development plan that builds on the expertise they feel they most need in the classroom and in our schools. Micro-credentials provide personalized professional development opportunities aligned to theory of action plans.

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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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More Verbs

FEBRUARY 22, 2016

The Learning Through Technology Team at the Maine Department of Education is looking for a high energy, entrepreneurial-thinking, collaborative educator who would like to work with us. Are you making great things happen in your classroom, school, district, or region? We are partnering with Digital Promise.

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Digital Promise

JULY 27, 2016

Classroom practice should lead our students to be globally competent, with the knowledge, skills, and dispositions necessary to navigate and succeed in today’s interconnected world. However, for many educators teaching for global competence, the new skills they learn and demonstrate in their classrooms often go unrecognized.

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A Principal's Reflections

FEBRUARY 19, 2017

Planning professional learning – How many of us dreaded professional development (PD) days? Choice In the classroom, agency empowers a shift where students can choose the right tool for the right task to demonstrate conceptual understanding and mastery.

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Shake Up Learning

MAY 2, 2017

The post 20 New Ways to Use Google Classroom [infographic] appeared first on Shake Up Learning. Expand Your Use of Google Classroom. Google has opened up Google Classroom to users outside of G Suite for Education. This opens so many doors for teachers, students, and parents to connect, collaborate and learn.

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Shake Up Learning

JANUARY 22, 2019

The post 15 Google Classroom Tips for Teachers appeared first on Shake Up Learning. 15 Google Classroom Tips for Teachers! Google Classroom is one of the most popular digital tools for the K-12 classroom. If you are not already a member of the Shake Up Learning community, click here to join. (Be

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Digital Promise

MARCH 16, 2015

In the previous post, we discussed building authentic cultures of professional learning. Today, we explore one of the design principles at the heart of micro-credentials – embracing learning as continuous process. This is where continuous learning can really shine. And so goes on the journey of continuous learning.

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Edsurge

JUNE 13, 2019

They can prompt us to assess and measure student progress in new ways; both through digital badges that demonstrate mastery of specific skills and summative portfolios of work that indicate readiness for cutting-edge careers in manufacturing, STEM careers and the creative arts.

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Marketplace K-12

JUNE 27, 2016

The three biggest reasons pre-K-12 educators took online professional development courses in the past year were to learn how to use digital devices, how to use the educational software that goes on them, or to find out more about classroom behavior or management, according to a new study. Online PD Course Findings.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 21, 2018

In a rapidly changing world, educators have been forced to self-examine and come to terms with approaches that are inefficient and irrelevant–from outmoded ways of setting up classrooms to equating school success solely on standardized metrics. Digital tools now allow for professional learning to take place anytime, anywhere, and with anyone.

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Shake Up Learning

MARCH 8, 2022

The FREE Lesson Plans and Resources You Aren’t Using (but should be)–Find free, standards-aligned lesson plans and teaching resources for your classroom. Teaching, learning, and even research that live in the public domain or have been licensed to be used freely. Then add in the pandemic forcing the use of online learning.

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Shake Up Learning

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

Asynchronous Learning Tips for Teachers. Special thanks to TCEA and IDEAcon , and all of the amazing educators engaging in professional learning. Work with Shake Up Learning and Kasey Bell. Just save the links in your Google Classroom comment bank or somewhere you access frequently! Click To Tweet. Screencastify.

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edWeb.net

APRIL 23, 2020

However, the goal is always the same: making sure that every student, at every level (classroom, building, district), has access to the resources they need to meet their learning goals. Websites can be fantastic tools for providing equitable access to educational information as long as they are coded properly. About the Host.

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techlearning

AUGUST 6, 2018

If we have heard it said once, we have heard it said 1,000 times: Professional Development is Broken For every time we have heard that said, we have also heard suggestions on how to fix it. Schools want their educators to learn and grow, but in practice, professional development is innately broken, or even in some situations, nonexistent.

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MindShift

JULY 31, 2020

includes reading challenges, craft projects, and games where students can earn digital badges online. . And during tumultuous times, the need for information, access to literacy, and digital access have become even greater. . Across the nation, libraries are stepping up in a time of crisis. Fellow school librarians!

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MindShift

FEBRUARY 15, 2017

Learning science says people learn best when they apply new information to their own contexts. But these elements are rarely applied to professional development. Micro-credentials have the benefit of being rooted in classroom practice.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

APRIL 9, 2014

Updates Partner Spotlight Partner Announcements Calendar of Events Deadlines Highlighted Recordings NMC Navigator Top Ten Conversations Submit a Video or Quote Final Notes Updates Learning Revolution Big Events Updates. Reinventing the Classroom - Correction. More information at [link]. For more information, click here.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

JANUARY 7, 2019

The Global Leadership Summit will provide participants with the unique opportunity to: Develop the capacity to lead classrooms and educational systems that foster in students the will and the skill to tackle problems of real-world significance locally and globally. More information on our featured speakers is below.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

FEBRUARY 12, 2018

Micro-credentials enable educators to better meet the needs of increasingly diverse student populations and school districts who want to shift professional learning from broad topics to competency, from seat-time to knowledge, from sporadic seminars to acknowledgment that teachers are life-long learners. Not anymore. personalized.

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Hack Education

JULY 1, 2016

Also via NPR : “From YouTube Pioneer Sal Khan , A School With Real Classrooms.” Via Inside Higher Ed : “ Excelsior College and publisher Cengage Learning on Tuesday said they would partner to create self-paced online degree programs to give students an alternative pathway to college credit.” ” “U.S.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 17, 2017

“In the Era of Microcredentials,” says Edsurge , “Institutions Look to Blockchain to Verify Learning.” ” Now the blockchain does not actually verify learning. It just presumably means that the information about what they’ve done is stored in a record that hasn’t been altered.

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