EdTechTeacher

MARCH 6, 2015

To create change, to be a leader, it’s about taking action and leading by example. As an example, Eric tells about his son playing Minecraft. Social Media is a Game Changer. However, in 2009, he came to the revelation that social media would help him become a more effective communicator.

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Educator Innovator

JUNE 27, 2014

Connecting all these activities are digital badges. Designed by the Mozilla Foundation, open digital badges are a new form of credentialing for the digital age. Participating organizations design the badges, outlining the skills kids will learn and the pathways they’ll take to acquire those skills.

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A Principal's Reflections

DECEMBER 21, 2014

Through social media a Personal Learning Network (PLN) provides a great antidote to the age-old time excuse. While online consider making some time to learn and then apply a new skill while earning a digital badge to acknowledge your informal learning. Carve out some time each day if possible. Image credit: [link].

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

APRIL 9, 2014

10 things wrong with what kids learn in school Technology and the Future(s) of the University Teaching kids about privacy and social media gains traction New Lingua.ly CEET Meet: Disrupting Assessment with Digital Badges. Classroom 2.0 What do you think? Share your feedback with Joe here. Thanks, Mark!

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Teacher Reboot Camp

JULY 16, 2018

Note that before implementing the process, I already know what digital product I want students to create (timeline, infographic, video, etc.) Evaluate an Example. The first step is to evaluate examples that are age and topic appropriate. Students work in pairs or small groups to create a list of what makes the example awesome.

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Teacher Reboot Camp

JULY 16, 2018

Note that before implementing the process, I already know what digital product I want students to create (timeline, infographic, video, etc.) Evaluate an Example. The first step is to evaluate examples that are age and topic appropriate. Students work in pairs or small groups to create a list of what makes the example awesome.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

FEBRUARY 12, 2018

If you successfully demonstrate competence, you will receive the micro-credential in the form of a digital badge. Perhaps one of the most critical areas in today’s education landscape, and an area where Digital Promise micro-credentials are making an immediate impact, is supporting English learners.

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Teacher Reboot Camp

JUNE 23, 2019

Meeno also shared how “Badging helps us move beyond the limits of our language and name things of value to the learner.” One of her most powerful moments was sharing what we value in schools (grades, test scores, gpa, etc.) versus what we should value (solving problems, cultivating curiosity, learning how to learn, etc.).

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techlearning

JULY 20, 2018

Note that before implementing the process, I already know what digital product I want students to create (timeline, infographic, video, etc.) Evaluate an Example The first step is to evaluate examples that are age and topic appropriate. Students work in pairs or small groups to create a list of what makes the example awesome.

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Wired Campus

MARCH 13, 2015

Several sessions focused on how alternative credentials, such as digital badges and new features of social-media platforms like LinkedIn, would become an important new currency for signaling personal achievement.

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A Principal's Reflections

OCTOBER 4, 2015

In this book I present successful uncommon learning initiatives that I helped implement as a school principal as well as examples from other schools across the country. I also pull on leadership strategies presented in the best-selling book Digital Leadership: Changing Paradigms for Changing Times (2014).

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Fractus Learning

APRIL 6, 2016

Throughout his book, Sheninger provides concrete examples from his former school, New Milford High School, as well as others from throughout the country. Embedded throughout each initiative and example he provides in the book, transforming the school and learning culture is most prevalent, as this is the cornerstone for uncommon learning. “

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Fractus Learning

APRIL 6, 2016

Throughout his book, Sheninger provides concrete examples from his former school, New Milford High School, as well as others from throughout the country. Embedded throughout each initiative and example he provides in the book, transforming the school and learning culture is most prevalent, as this is the cornerstone for uncommon learning. “

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

That being said, if you’re using a piece of technology that’s free, it’s likely that your personal data is being sold to advertisers or at the very least hoarded as a potential asset (and used, for example, to develop some sort of feature or algorithm). Certainly “free” works well for cash-strapped schools. Wedge Tailed Green Pigeon.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 17, 2017

Demanding that schools teach “the right skills” is also one of many examples of an ongoing “innovation” fixation , of how industry is pressing the education system to bend to its needs. There are other markets to pursue, after all – markets in Mexico , Gaza , Uganda, Kenya, and Nigeria , for example.

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