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We Need You to Help Fight Ransomware in Our Schools

EmergingEdTech

If someone does manage to infiltrate systems, their credentials ideally won’t be sufficient to reach valuable data. You can expect 7–10% of real phishing emails to filter through your blocking systems, so practice matters. Disconnect and isolate infected systems but don’t turn devices off. Empower everyone to be a cyber hero!

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How to Assess Digital Literacy

Ask a Tech Teacher

But before I tell you how, let’s step back and talk about the meaning of “digital literacy” What is digital literacy? Test takers can receive digital badges and/or certificates when they pass assessments (probably at a Northstar testing location). ” Happily, both can be accomplished the same way.

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Unlocking Skills: What Learners and Employers Need to Know About Microcredentials

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Digital badges, microcredentials and digital credentials… What sets them apart, or are they synonymous? Rob Coyle Digital Credential Program Manager at 1EdTech Coyle: It seems every credentialing organization has its own definition of microcredentials, alternative credentials, digital credentials and badges.…

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There Are 700K+ Credentials — and Counting. Which Ones Are ‘Quality’?

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Perhaps to another nonprofit, the National Skills Coalition, which published its own report this week focused explicitly on establishing a definition of what counts as a quality non-degree credential. Department of Labor Registered Apprenticeship Partners Information Data System or State Wage Interchange System, according to NSC.

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Turning ‘Google Maps for Education’ From Metaphor to Reality

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Unfortunately, current learner navigation systems more closely resemble the early, self-contained GPS devices with incomplete and inaccurate maps. This data must be in a machine-readable format and interoperable to work in all apps and systems.

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

The CoolCatTeacher

How cool would it be for kids to have digital badges, the same way that we have (some) that are attached to our e-mails and things like that, for when we achieve our Google Certified Educators and things like that. I went on the hunt, and I created – just using Google Drawings and Canva – these #MakingGoogleMaster badges.

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Can Competency-Based Education Demonstrate Mastery Across a Lifetime? #DLNchat

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Our guest pointed to a five-page definition of CBE. Many #DLNchat -ters agreed that digital portfolios were one way to show skill mastery, but needed to go further. Keith Bevacqua shared this idea: “Perhaps by archiving full work sets after a course, not just providing a digital badge.