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31 Days of Digital Goodies

Teacher Reboot Camp

Keep reading to find out how to make your own interactive digital calendar. Check out the 2013 Digital Ideas Advent Calendar for more great ideas ! Create your own interactive digital calendar with Google Docs and Thinglink , a free tool and app to make clickable images. Create Your Own. Upload this image to ThingLink.

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OPINION: Our workforce must be ready to help growing numbers of students who come to school learning English

The Hechinger Report

Yet despite some efforts to document the experiences and outcomes of multilingual learners in the district, a legal monitor noted last year that Boston’s school leaders had defied requests for records showing how it spent its funds. At the close of 2023, 75 Rhode Island educators were enrolled in the new and cutting-edge program.

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The Growing Potential of Micro-Credentials

A Principal's Reflections

There is a great deal of talk these days about micro-credentials and digital badging as a means to acknowledge professional learning of educators. Check out what Mozilla has created with their Open Badges platform. Educators can earn the badge by then assimilating what they’ve learned into their own instruction in some way.

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31 Days of Digital Goodies

Teacher Reboot Camp

Keep reading to find out how to make your own interactive digital calendar. Check out the 2013 Digital Ideas Advent Calendar for more great ideas ! Create your own interactive digital calendar with Google Docs and Thinglink , a free tool and app to make clickable images. Create Your Own. Upload this image to ThingLink.

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How Microcredentials Help Educators Develop New Tech Skills

EdTech Magazine

Also known as digital badges, these tools are increasingly used to improve student focus as well as provide a means to incentivize teachers to complete new disciplines. Educating teachers on how to make use of these digital solutions is a major factor for overall success,” Cator continues.

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15 Plug-and-Play Lesson Plans from Google – SULS0198

Shake Up Learning

You get the entire lesson, AND the step-by-step tech how-to. As you are getting kids back in the swing of things this school year, you can rely on these lessons to help your students learn how to complete basic technology tasks like using Google Classroom and help them learn how to use Google tools to create!

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How To Value Individual Staff Profesional Development Through Incentive Programs

TeacherCast

Each marking period was given a “C-Theme” and inside each of the themes, teachers were encouraged to earn up to 4 badges to demonstrate proficiency over each of the C’s. Here is an example of this school district’s planning document. What are digital badges?

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