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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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Pearson’s Connections Academy Launches New College and Career Prep Initiative

eSchool News

HOBOKEN – Pearson , the world’s leading learning company, announced today that Connections Academy , its K-12 online school program will expand its slate of college and career readiness initiatives for middle and high school students. About Pearson At Pearson, our purpose is simple: to add life to a lifetime of learning.

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The school that connects STEM, badging, and life beyond the classroom

eSchool News

DLA was designed around a core academic program that engages students in real-world learning that better prepares them for success in college and career in this high-demand, fast-growing field. Next page: A unique badging model engages students. So, how do we do it?

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There Are 700K+ Credentials — and Counting. Which Ones Are ‘Quality’?

Edsurge

Credential Engine hopes its database will eventually help people discern which credentials offer the most value for personal learning and employment opportunities. What may sound like a meditative exercise in patience does have a practical purpose. Crunching Credentials Data Why expend all this effort researching credentials?

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Can Competency-Based Education Demonstrate Mastery Across a Lifetime? #DLNchat

Edsurge

Cali Morrison added: “I define CBE as personalized pace, mastery-based learning where students demonstrate mastery through authentic assessment and progress as they learn rather than after a set amount of time.”. Not everyone in the #DLNchat community was as enthusiastic about the potential of adaptive learning for CBE.

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Turning ‘Google Maps for Education’ From Metaphor to Reality

Edsurge

Alignment of Data Standards for Describing Learning Objectives When applying the Google Maps metaphor to learner navigation, the points of interest on the map are competencies—the things that a person can learn, such as skills, knowledge, dispositions, and habits of practice. K-12 learners.

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The Power of Positive Climate and Culture

EdTechTeam

As a coach assisting teachers with technology integration and personalized learning, I notice patterns arising from teacher to teacher. The importance of climate and culture in a classroom and across a school are imperative to successful technology integration, personalized learning, and empowered learning.