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Integration of Digital Badges to Acknowledge Professional Learning

A Principal's Reflections

I am proud to announce Worlds of Learning @ New Milford High School , a digital badge professional learning platform. For some time now, we have been hearing about digital badges and how they can be used to guide, motivate, document and validate formal and informal learning. ?In

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Agency: Important for Students and Educators

A Principal's Reflections

The added bonus here is that other documents, images, and videos can be embedded, which really creates a more dynamic agenda. A learning portfolio was required as part of this process and presented at the end of year evaluation conference. This results in a death-by-meeting scenario and is a main reason why most people hate meetings.

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

The CoolCatTeacher

I was at a conference, actually with my husband, and he is in the hotel business. There were these bags that we had been given, and I thought, “Wouldn’t it be so cool for the kids to earn pins or badges? I went on the hunt, and I created – just using Google Drawings and Canva – these #MakingGoogleMaster badges.

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How To Value Individual Staff Profesional Development Through Incentive Programs

TeacherCast

Using broad brush strokes, professional development could be an online course, Edcamp Conference, graduate course or by simply working with an Instructional Coach on a lesson. Here is an example of this school district’s planning document. What are digital badges? What is professional development?

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How To Value Individual Staff Profesional Development Through Incentive Programs

TeacherCast

Using broad brush strokes, professional development could be an online course, Edcamp Conference, graduate course or by simply working with an Instructional Coach on a lesson. Here is an example of this school district’s planning document. What are digital badges? What is professional development?

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TONS of #ISTE17 Pro Tips, Resources, & Events (including #NOTATISTE)!

EdTechnocation.com

It's one of the biggest international EdTech conferences of the year! From pre-conferences, meetups, workshops, BYODs, Playgrounds, and more, I'll be all over ISTE this year! There is A LOT going on at the ISTE conference! But there's almost as much going on before and outside the conference. Are you going?

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Join Us in Chicago for the Fourth Annual Global Leadership Summit - March 15, 2019

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

The Global Leadership Summit is a pre-conference special event at ASCD’s Empower19: The Conference for Every Educator and part of the Global Education Conference Network’s fourth annual Global Leadership Week. He has presented at many conferences in North America, Asia, and Europe.