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Interview with Noah Geisel, @SenorG: Motivate with Digital Badges!

Teacher Reboot Camp

Noah Geisel, @SenorG , is the first person who really taught me about the potential micro-credentials and digital badges have to motivate learners to achieve great things throughout their lives. I had used badges for my online learning conferences, but hadn’t quite used badges with students, yet.

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How To Value Individual Staff Profesional Development Through Incentive Programs

TeacherCast

This, unfortunately, discourages staff members from looking outside of school for professional learning opportunities and punishes them for the times that they do seek to improve themselves. What are digital badges? Badges are a way to recognize staff members for gaining skills and experiences they can use with their students.

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How To Value Individual Staff Profesional Development Through Incentive Programs

TeacherCast

This, unfortunately, discourages staff members from looking outside of school for professional learning opportunities and punishes them for the times that they do seek to improve themselves. Step 2: Recognize that Staff Members are Constantly Engaged in Professional Learning. What are digital badges?

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Online PD Courses Help Educators Understand Ed-Tech, Classroom Management, Study Finds

Marketplace K-12

Who provided the professional online learning course? Online community: 60 percent. Conference organizer: 13 percent. Most often selected tools used to teach the professional learning courses were: Videos: 76 percent. To receive a digital badge: 10 percent. Reading, English/Language Arts: 30 percent.

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How Libraries Stretch Their Capabilities to Serve Kids During a Pandemic

MindShift

But this year the STEM projects, maker space designs and story hours that usually take place within the library’s walls have moved online, and the library itself has found itself innovating quickly to meet the needs of their community. includes reading challenges, craft projects, and games where students can earn digital badges online. .

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Learning Revolution - Week's Free Events - May Is Ed Tech Month - Geo-Educators - Natural Math - Oxygen Masks and You

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

The conference details and call for proposals can be found at [link]. Don''t miss this terrific opportunity to present to or learn from others, and that will kick off a month of great ed tech events. She is a recent recipient of ISTE’s first place SIGOL Online Learning Award (2013) and a Microsoft Innovative Educator Expert.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

Tony Bates looks at “Brexit and online learning in Europe.” 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.” Priorities.

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