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Sketch 50: Join the movement!

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The themes covered across the 50 days of sketching include: Communication , Personalized Learning , Design Thinking , Sketching Basics , Celebrating Success , Social Justice , Creativity , and Growth Mindset. For more information on the #Sketch50 movement, please connect with us!

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Support English Learners with Micro-credentials from Digital Promise

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Digital devices, be they iPads, laptops, Chromebooks, Macs, or PCs, give students access to endless amounts of web-based resources for research, inquiry, collaboration, sharing, and more. They offer over three hundred micro-credentials addressing all levels of personal learning (more on that later). Click to view slideshow.

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Hack Education Weekly News

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.” Via Education Week : “Personalized learning pioneer Summit Public Schools is expanding its network to include 100 new schools, CEO Dianne Tavenner announced via a Facebook post today.” ” There’s more Summit Public Schools / Facebook news in the downgrades section below. ” Oh look.

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2014 Global Education Conference - Day Three!

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

The Value of Values in Transformative Learning Framework. How student values/experiences impact learning and instructional design methods. Najwa Chalabi One World: Many Stories - Patricia Davis, Ph.D.

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Hack Education Weekly News

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” From the press release : “ Concentric Sky Announces BadgeRank – a New Search Engine for Digital Badges.” ” Honestly, people, there is a thing called 'BitSchool' now, doing 'personalized learning solution' through a blockchain 'paid for use system' - how much b t can we take??!!

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

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Boundless’s materials have been archived by David Wiley’s company Lumen Learning. In an era before Facebook or Edmodo, the social networking site Ning was, for a time, quite popular with educators. There was a regularly updated Facebook page, a Twitter account, as well as a LinkedIn profile for its supposed president.

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Hack Education Weekly News

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Salesforce has filed a patent for “ Digital badging for facilitating virtual recognition of an achievement.” ” Not sure how popular Facebook and Summit Public Schools ’ “personalized learning” platform is, for what it’s worth. Accreditation and Certification.