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Digital Badges: credentialing the things that make us fully human

iLearn Technology

Two weeks ago, I attended the Digital Badge Summit in Denver, CO. I’ve been somewhat hesitant to jump into digital badges world (despite knowing the digital badge ninja, @senorg) because I feared that digital badges were just one more way to categorize and label kids, another carrot to dangle in the classroom.

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Class Tech Tips: How-To Find Success in Your Co-Teaching Partnership

techlearning

After finishing a course successfully, you can even earn a digital badge to show off on your social media platforms or professional channels. Teaching partners may be full-time, as they can be in elementary. With online courses, you can pick and choose what content you want to learn.

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3 Big Issues We Heard About at SXSWedu

Wired Campus

. — 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. New Forms of Credentials.

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2014 Global Education Conference - Day Three!

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

El Baida Marouane, EFL and ACCESS Program Teacher Going Global: Facilitating and Designing Collaborative Classroom Projects at Home and Abroad - Lindsey Myers, Library Media Specialist Increasing Student Achievement Through Nonlinguistic Teaching Strategies - Patricia J. Pedro Néstor Ibáñez Lic.

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'Robots Are Coming For Your Jobs'

Hack Education

MIT will issue digital diplomas on the blockchain. And Northeastern has teamed up with IBM to put digital badges on the blockchain. In other badging news, Salesforce received a patent for badges. Pearson filed a patent for badges. Folks still insist that badges are “ gaining traction.”