EdTech Magazine

OCTOBER 4, 2019

With K–12 schools leveraging connected technologies to help improve student outcomes and boost classroom collaboration, effective cybersecurity is not optional. This requires a balancing act: How do educators leverage connected technology without putting student data and other critical information at risk? For what purpose?

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Neo LMS

JULY 15, 2021

Students then receive personalised recommendations based on their progress and can choose how to be assessed. The alternative to four-year degrees comes in the form of digital credentials. Students who have mastered a competency can earn a digital badge to showcase that. Immersive technologies.

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Teacher Reboot Camp

DECEMBER 1, 2014

Keep reading to find out how to make your own interactive digital calendar. Check out the 2013 Digital Ideas Advent Calendar for more great ideas ! Create your own interactive digital calendar with Google Docs and Thinglink , a free tool and app to make clickable images. Create Your Own. Upload this image to ThingLink.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

AUGUST 31, 2021

After we have seen how to create and share digital badges with students, in this post you will learn about another equally important add-on I discovered through Five Hacks from Google Forms post.read more.

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Teacher Reboot Camp

JANUARY 30, 2018

Any teacher is invited to join and walk through the steps of learning how to regularly set instructional goals and transform the teaching and learning in their classes. Learning how to set achievable, short-term goals is so powerful! Learn how to collaborate with teachers worldwide!

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A Principal's Reflections

FEBRUARY 21, 2016

There is a great deal of talk these days about micro-credentials and digital badging as a means to acknowledge professional learning of educators. Check out what Mozilla has created with their Open Badges platform. The real aim of educational technology should be to modernize pedagogy and to shape the education of the future.

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Teacher Reboot Camp

DECEMBER 9, 2014

Included in the Digital Ideas Advent Calendar with a new idea each day! A year ago, I created a technology course on Moodle for Spanish teachers as part of the Ministry of Education of Spain. Keep reading to discover how to get your students reflecting on their learning in your course with a digital portfolio.

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TeacherCast

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

In this example, a school district created a badging program based around the 4C’s of Instructional Technology Integration. Each marking period was given a “C-Theme” and inside each of the themes, teachers were encouraged to earn up to 4 badges to demonstrate proficiency over each of the C’s. What are digital badges?

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TeacherCast

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

Professional Development Example Through Badging #1 In this example, a school district created a badging program based around the 4C’s of Instructional Technology Integration. What are digital badges? Badges are a way to recognize staff members for gaining skills and experiences they can use with their students.

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EdTech Magazine

JUNE 12, 2018

In efforts to make time-mandated and compliance-based professional learning efficient, technology offers microcredentialing as a vehicle for educators to pursue personal growth. Educating teachers on how to make use of these digital solutions is a major factor for overall success,” Cator continues.

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Shake Up Learning

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Kick off the school year with lessons that help students express themselves, build relationships, and stay organized while learning new technology skills. You get the entire lesson, AND the step-by-step tech how-to. Learn more about using the Applied Digital Skills program and set up your teacher profile here.

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Shake Up Learning

DECEMBER 14, 2021

The goal of this blog has always been to provide teachers with digital learning resources, tips, and tricks, and help teachers find ways to integrate technology meaningfully in the classroom. This list helps me decide what content to create and how to best help teachers in 2022. The Best Teacher Tips and Lesson Ideas of 2021.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 24, 2017

Sometimes, using something many students like (technology) can get them inspired to read. Use a digital timer. To keep attention from wandering and to build up stamina, use a highly visible digital timer. Promoting reading with easy badges that students can earn is a powerful motivator. Don’t give up hope!

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Teacher Reboot Camp

DECEMBER 9, 2014

Included in the Digital Ideas Advent Calendar with a new idea each day! A year ago, I created a technology course on Moodle for Spanish teachers as part of the Ministry of Education of Spain. Keep reading to discover how to get your students reflecting on their learning in your course with a digital portfolio.

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Teacher Reboot Camp

DECEMBER 1, 2014

Keep reading to find out how to make your own interactive digital calendar. Check out the 2013 Digital Ideas Advent Calendar for more great ideas ! Create your own interactive digital calendar with Google Docs and Thinglink , a free tool and app to make clickable images. Create Your Own. Upload this image to ThingLink.

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Wired Campus

JUNE 9, 2015

A few colleges are trying a new incentive to get professors to participate in professional-development workshops: digital badges. Now some colleges are trying the badge approach in their in-house training, in part to expose more professors to the badge concept so they might try it in their own courses.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 19, 2021

Apprenticeships have long been a mainstay for hiring people into skilled trades, but they’ve lately gained some momentum as a way to train people for office work , too, including for information technology positions that are in high demand. Figuring out how to make that manageable for more workers is part of our collective challenge.”

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Ask a Tech Teacher

SEPTEMBER 13, 2018

Let me step back a moment to explain the SAMR Model as it applies to the use of technology in education. Augmentation: Technology not only replaces a traditional tool but adds functionality, e.g. using Google Earth to explore the setting of a story rather than a map. To students, it’s a game that wraps them in a fantasy world.

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EmergingEdTech

APRIL 18, 2023

Here’s how to prepare to weather the storm. Include incentives for completing training, such as digital badges, leaderboards, and certificates, for completing training well. The post We Need You to Help Fight Ransomware in Our Schools appeared first on Emerging Education Technologies. Number 1: Contact IT immediately.

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Neo LMS

DECEMBER 12, 2017

But I digress… technology, specifically in the form of micro-credentials (sometimes called digital badging) has emerged not only as a powerful, accessible and appropriate way to learn online, but is also allows teachers to manage their time and resources better (keep in mind many teachers pay for PD out their own pocket).

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Edsurge

APRIL 23, 2019

When a college goes out of business , all of its alumni can suddenly find themselves in an unexpected dilemma: How can graduates prove they actually earned their degrees when no one is left at the institution to send academic transcripts to prospective employers or graduate schools? Why create yet another body of digital credentials?

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edWeb.net

JUNE 8, 2021

Finally, educators are not looking for programs on how to use technology but on how the tech can support effective teaching and learning. Career advancement falls further down the list, and teachers don’t seem to be that excited about earning digital badges. How Vendors Can Help.

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A Principal's Reflections

DECEMBER 11, 2013

Our vision for her was to provide meaningful learning opportunities for our students while supporting teachers in the process of effective technology and media literacy integration. Here are a few highlights from her short tenure thus far: Created a digital badge platform to recognize informal learning being undertaken by NMHS staff.

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The CoolCatTeacher

OCTOBER 11, 2017

We showed them how to use the paint can tool to put color in the cells, and we told them to create a jack-o’-lantern. But they didn’t know how to spell the compound word. We showed them how to use the Voice Notes in the Speaker Notes to type the word. “I have these great digital badges.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 30, 2019

Technology can collect and harness more data than ever before. In education, does technology create just as many problems as it solves? Jessie Woolley-Wilson, CEO of DreamBox Learning Jessie Woolley-Wilson (CEO, DreamBox Learning): In the past, educators were focused on how to get more devices in the classroom.

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Digital Promise

DECEMBER 22, 2014

The classes are a product of RIFLI’s plan to create a 1:1 classroom computing model that, according to RIFLI’s Director Karisa Tashjian, “blurs the lines between language/content learning and using technology.” At the end of each course, RIFLI staff award digital badges to the students.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

SEPTEMBER 8, 2016

I eventually learned how the system worked, I learned how to get good grades, and my focus turned more to “learning.”. The problem has been how to track, quantify and measure all that learning. How can we productively merge playtime and learning time? Jacqui Murray has been teaching K-8 technology for 15 years.

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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. As he moved around into different grade levels and roles, Rich discovered his passion for using technology to teach. Here’s a great article on how to get started with OER in the classroom. para help?

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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

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

We haven’t had the ability to look across all credentials to allow us to have some sense of how to make the best determination of quality,” Cheney says. Credential Engine is surveying the landscape first, trying to develop a comprehensive dataset before coming to any particular conclusions. “We

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Edsurge

MARCH 9, 2020

She believes the incentive system can help children develop positive habits around taking care of themselves and a household, and that learning how to manage and spend points can build skills related to financial literacy. The company plans to launch a pilot program with a school in India to see how the platform would work in the classroom.

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Fractus Learning

SEPTEMBER 1, 2016

Digital badges do just that: they show when students have learned a skill or met a goal. For teachers, badges make classroom goals visible to students. The value of digital badges goes beyond the classroom, as well. Students use badges that they have earned to get scholarships, enter graduate school, and get jobs.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 16, 2018

Before this technology existed, faculty & staff were making modifications manually so automation helps students, and the faculty and staff who serve them,” Long shared. Keith Bevacqua shared this idea: “Perhaps by archiving full work sets after a course, not just providing a digital badge.

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Edsurge

JULY 14, 2018

The IEEE Learning Technology Standards Committee (LTSC) plans to update its existing standards based on this work. These standards have been traditionally published only as human-readable documents, such as PDFs, that can’t be used directly by education technology tools. K-12 learners.

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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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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. To receive a digital badge: 10 percent.

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EdTechTeacher

SEPTEMBER 23, 2016

As schools adopt Google Apps for Education, there is a desire by teachers to learn how to effectively use the GAFE tools in their classrooms. Google understands this and provides a certificate and digital badge validating your technology implementation skills.

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