EmergingEdTech

APRIL 18, 2023

More than 56% of K12 education organizations suffered ransomware attacks between 2020 and 2021—with an average cost of over $265,000. Include incentives for completing training, such as digital badges, leaderboards, and certificates, for completing training well. Did you know some are authored by your own students ?)

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Teacher Reboot Camp

JULY 23, 2015

“The number one benefit of educational technology is that it empowers people to do what they want to do. Our students’ digital behavior influences our learning, language, rituals, values, routines, customs, and communication. Give them learning missions you grade with digital badges. ” – Steve Ballmer.

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The Shake Up Learning Blog

OCTOBER 25, 2022

Discuss with the decision-makers at your school and/or your Google for Education administrator. Related: Google Classroom Student Selector (Digital Popsicle Sticks!). Badging Systems. Digital Badging as become a fun way for teachers and students to show off their accomplishments. Google Educator Groups (GEGs).

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Marketplace K-12

JUNE 27, 2016

The three biggest reasons pre-K-12 educators took online professional development courses in the past year were to learn how to use digital devices, how to use the educational software that goes on them, or to find out more about classroom behavior or management, according to a new study. Online community: 60 percent.

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Shake Up Learning

MARCH 8, 2022

Rich shares the power of Open Educational Resources (OER)–what they are, where to find them, and how to get started. Rich shares that he spent some time recently at the Buck Institute for Education , which focuses on Project Based Learning. What are Open Educational Resources (OER)? Where do teachers find OER? .

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

To encourage students to take advantage of extracurricular activities that may improve their chances of staying enrolled and complement their classroom learning, the University of Central Oklahoma devised a system that awards digital badges for participation in events and clubs and also compiles evidence for interested future employers.

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Shake Up Learning

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

The post Digital Badges in the Classroom (What, When, & How) – SULS096 appeared first on Shake Up Learning. Let’s talk digital badges with the experts: Cate Tolnai and Jen Gibson! Digital badges can help us engage students (even remote learners). What Are Digital Badges?

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 31, 2019

By some estimates, within a decade, only 30 to 40 percent of “college students” will physically attend a college to earn a degree, while many of the rest will shop for chunks of education and training that allow them to take the next step in their careers while also stacking toward an eventual degree.

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Educator Innovator

OCTOBER 16, 2014

This year, the Afterschool Alliance is once again partnering with Educator Innovator to highlight the meaningful, engaging and fun learning that’s happening in schools, libraries, museums and community-based organizations after the school day ends.

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EdNews Daily

NOVEMBER 30, 2016

The conversation regarding higher education has never been more heated. Today’s Millennials have different educational needs from those of previous generations. Given this mix of factors, what new models of education should the conversation converge on? One example of this is the newest trend of “ digital badges.”

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

NOVEMBER 13, 2016

Monday, November 14th, is day two of the seventh annual Global Education Conference. We are partnering with Chrome Warrior and using their gamification platform to provide an enhanced professional development experience for Global Education Conference attendees. We are ready for another great day of sessions and keynotes!

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

NOVEMBER 13, 2016

Monday, November 14th, is day two of the seventh annual Global Education Conference. IMPORTANT NOTES: We are partnering with Chrome Warrior and using their gamification platform to provide an enhanced professional development experience for Global Education Conference attendees. Please read it thoroughly if you are considering playing.

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Educator Innovator

OCTOBER 10, 2014

However, one of the primary goals of Hive is to accommodate this movement, facilitating Connected Learning by making accessible a variety of different opportunities and types of programs across which youth move, perhaps with the help of digital badges. What is the relationship of pathways programs to the educational system?

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MindShift

JUNE 29, 2015

In a fast-moving field like education technology, it’s worth taking a moment to take stock of new developments, persistent trends and the challenges to effective tech implementation in real classrooms. This macro trend to shake up typical ways of schooling is opening new opportunities for technology to play an even bigger role in education.

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MindShift

JULY 31, 2020

includes reading challenges, craft projects, and games where students can earn digital badges online. . Digital book loans have skyrocketed, with children’s e-book checkouts more than doubling since the COVID-19 closures began, according to a report from NPR. Across the nation, libraries are stepping up in a time of crisis.

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A Principal's Reflections

DECEMBER 21, 2014

One of the most utilized excuses in education when it comes to change is lack of time. Regardless of your respective role in education, time will always be your enemy if you look at it with a fixed as opposed to a growth mindset. There is nothing more important to an educator, outside of working with kids, than professional learning.

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Shake Up Learning

MAY 2, 2017

Google has opened up Google Classroom to users outside of G Suite for Education. It’s not a perfect system, but keep in mind that it was designed to protect students and your G Suite for Education accounts. Discuss with the decision-makers at your school and/or your G Suite for Education administrator. Badging Systems.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 30, 2020

Department of Education forecasts that by 2027, postsecondary enrollment among adults will grow by just 1 percent, compared to a 5 percent growth rate for more traditionally-aged students. In a tight economy, many major employers are launching or expanding “ education as benefit ” strategies to retain and develop their workforces.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

JANUARY 7, 2019

The Global Leadership Summit will provide participants with the unique opportunity to: Develop the capacity to lead classrooms and educational systems that foster in students the will and the skill to tackle problems of real-world significance locally and globally. Design creative ways to advocate and implement global learning initiatives.

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Teacher Reboot Camp

JUNE 2, 2015

“The number one benefit of educational technology is that it empowers people to do what they want to do. Our students’ digital behavior influences our learning, language, rituals, values, routines, customs, and communication. Give them learning missions you grade with digital badges. ” – Steve Ballmer.

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Edsurge

MARCH 2, 2020

So when she developed Read Ahead , a tool to transform any digital text into a guided reading activity in seconds, her thoughts went to patenting it. “I Our lawyer pointed out a policy change described in a 2018 U.S. Who Owns Digital Badges? Patent Office memo that invalidated one of the examiner’s reasons for rejection.

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EdNews Daily

OCTOBER 22, 2019

Maybe, we need to look at educators in a new context of what teaching really is in most schools, and whether it should be given cultural, economic and technological change. They deliver specific chunks of knowledge that are outlined by academic standards and required by school policy in the curriculum, not random tangents of knowledge.

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Shake Up Learning

JANUARY 11, 2021

Create a Digital Badge. A digital badge is a digital image that is awarded for reaching a goal or milestone. Teachers (or students) can create badges in Google Drawings. See: Copyright Policy. Go to File>Download as PNG or JPG to download your image. PNG is best for clipart.

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Shake Up Learning

JANUARY 22, 2019

You could even gamify this idea and give digital badges for accomplishing a task or challenge. See: Copyright Policy. For my students, it involved reading and enrichment activities. Consider creating a separate class inside Google Classroom for extension or enrichment activities.

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MindShift

FEBRUARY 15, 2017

School districts spend a lot of money on trainings for educators, but the returns on that investment are not always clear. While educators around the country are slowly adopting various approaches that allow them to better differentiate learning for students, the same is rarely true for the adult learners in the system.

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Wired Campus

MARCH 13, 2015

. — Student privacy, easier-to-use digital tools for instructors, and efforts to offer alternative credentials were some of the most-talked-about topics this week at the South by Southwest Edu conference, an offshoot of the popular South by Southwest music festival. Big data is coming to education, if it’s not here already. Mitchell L.

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A Principal's Reflections

OCTOBER 4, 2015

They have embraced this digital world as it provides consistent relevance and meaning through an array of interactive experiences. As a result, the job of schools and educators has become exponentially more difficult as a natural disconnect results when students enter their school buildings.

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Hack Education

AUGUST 12, 2016

Education Politics. “ Ugandan parliament orders Bridge Academy schools closed,” according to Education International. The US Department of Education announced it was launching “a pilot to test rigorously the effectiveness of more flexible loan counseling policies on federal student loan borrowers.”

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Shake Up Learning

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

Special thanks to TCEA and IDEAcon , and all of the amazing educators engaging in professional learning. Check out episode 96 about digital badges ). See: Copyright Policy. Asynchronous online learning is a powerful tool for teachers. Asynchronous Learning Tips for Teachers. Click To Tweet. Listen to this article. .

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Hack Education

JUNE 9, 2017

Education Politics. US Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos appeared in front of a Senate subcommittee this week to talk about Trump’s budget proposal. said Thursday that he is still part of a higher education initiative for President Donald Trump,” Politico reports. ” More via The Chronicle of Higher Education.

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The Innovative Educator

NOVEMBER 15, 2016

A #TrumpEducation administration could embrace digital badges and micro-credentials. He started with The America We Deserve , where he wrote about citizenship education, teachers unions, and school safety. Ten years later, in Think Like a Champion , he touched on American history and comprehensive education.

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Hack Education

JUNE 16, 2018

Each week, I gather a wide variety of links to education and education technology articles. All this feeds the review I write each December on the stories we are told about the future of education. National) Education Politics. At the G7 Summit , the countries pledged $3 billion for girls’ education.

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Edsurge

JUNE 12, 2018

Last fall I started my first day on the job as an embedded faculty member with a corporation—as a scholar-in-residence at Steelcase Education. I’ve kept my eyes open, taken a notebook full of notes, and spent time every day processing what I was seeing and speculating about how the best things I saw might function in higher education.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 26, 2017

And that prompts a provocative thought: Could credentials replace traditional education? It’s driving a revolution in how education is constructed, delivered, used — and credentialed. And there is no count of badges. But that misses the rapid rise of short-term online educational offerings over the past five years.

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Hack Education

JULY 1, 2016

Education Politics. You’ll remember Gove, of course, from his role as the former education secretary and as special friend of News Corp's Joel Klein. You’ll remember Gove, of course, from his role as the former education secretary and as special friend of News Corp's Joel Klein. ” So that speaks volumes. .”

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

For the past ten years, I have written a lengthy year-end series, documenting some of the dominant narratives and trends in education technology. Oh yes, I’m sure you can come up with some rousing successes and some triumphant moments that made you thrilled about the 2010s and that give you hope for “the future of education.”

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Hack Education

SEPTEMBER 8, 2017

(National) Education Politics. ” Another huge (and awful) deal: Betsy DeVos announced this week that the Department of Education would replace Obama-era guidance on how colleges must protect students from sexual violence and respond to sexual assault claims on campus. Via Inside Higher Ed : “ Education Dept.

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