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How to Assess Digital Literacy

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Students will want to be facile with not just keyboarding and word processing but search and research, video and audio tools, communication tools (such as would be needed to collaborate and meet online), project completion tools (such as slideshows and online posters), and share tools to collaborate on projects. NorthstarDigLit.

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New Ways to Gamify Learning

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e.g. using virtual meeting tools (like Google Hangouts) to include housebound students in a class. Awarding badges for the accomplishment of steps or completion of skills has become popular in many schools. Tom’s Digital Breakouts offer free games this teacher created and freely shares with others. Breakout EDU.

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Support English Learners with Micro-credentials from Digital Promise

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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. Who is Digital Promise?