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Digital Activities & Icebreakers for Gen Y

Teacher Reboot Camp

Give them learning missions you grade with digital badges. Check out my bookmarks for creating digital badges. Hashtags are one of the most important inventions of our digital learning. You will find hashtags used on Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, Vine, and many other social networks.

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Millennials: The Straw That Will Stir Higher Education’s Next Disruption

EdNews Daily

Beyond coursework, students swim in a flux of data, buffeted by phone calls, text messages, Facebook updates, Twitter tweets, news crawls, and other sources. To match the changing, unpredictable nature of today’s economy and digital landscape, these programs should aim for flexibility and innovative paradigms.

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Collaborative & Creative Online Learning

Teacher Reboot Camp

Give them learning missions you grade with digital badges. Check out my bookmarks for creating digital badges. When you complete this mission, claim your badge here, Credly.com/claim/21346/F50-B50B-105. You will find hashtags used on Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, Vine, and many other social networks.

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20 Ways to Use Google Drawings in the Classroom – SULS092

Shake Up Learning

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. Join our FREE Shake Up Learning Facebook group. See: Copyright Policy. PNG is best for clipart.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

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.” ” There’s more Summit Public Schools / Facebook news in the downgrades section below. ” Presidential Campaign Politics. .”

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

” From the press release : “ Concentric Sky Announces BadgeRank – a New Search Engine for Digital Badges.” Via Inside Higher Ed : “ Facebook Adds Community Colleges to Program.” .” Via Inside Higher Ed : “First Watch Restaurants Inc., ” Testing. douglevin) June 11, 2018.

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

Hack Education

In an era before Facebook or Edmodo, the social networking site Ning was, for a time, quite popular with educators. And certainly the expectation of many ed-tech products (and increasingly school policy) is that parents will do just this — participate in the incessant monitoring of student data. 3D Printing. Wedge Tailed Green Pigeon.

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