Edsurge

OCTOBER 23, 2018

The two—which collectively serve about 180,000 learners—want to create a model that is customizable enough to help a high school student get a jumpstart on their associate degree and a 55-year-old professional learn a new skill. Birmingham will be ground zero for their learning and workforce model. Today, badges don’t count as credit.

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Teacher Reboot Camp

FEBRUARY 24, 2018

Today, we hosted the first Twitter chat of The Goal-Minded Teacher: Challenges to Transform Student Learning ( #EduGoalsMOOC ) free open online course with guest experts Dr. Will Deyamport ( @IamDrWill ) and Noah Geisel ( @SenorG ). Our focus for the upcoming week is integrating technology effectively. Check your time zone here !

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Teacher Reboot Camp

NOVEMBER 24, 2017

“Tell me and I forget, teach me and I may remember, involve me and I learn.” Well you can take the same concept and create your own digital version of an advent calendar. Tis the season to inspire active learning with a click and learn digital countdown calendar! Benjamin Franklin. The holidays are here!

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Teacher Reboot Camp

DECEMBER 13, 2019

More important than the learning that transpires in our classrooms is the learning we inspire beyond our classroom walls. One way to motivate students to continue using the knowledge acquired in our classes is to set up a virtual learning community. Free Virtual Learning Environments. Grade and send feedback.

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techlearning

AUGUST 27, 2018

Credly Great how-to content, flexible features boost digital badge tool Pros: Super-simple features and excellent how-to info make it easy to get started. Bottom Line: A useful tool for issuing digital badges. Nonprofit Will Award Digital Credentials to Recognize Tech Skills of Educators ] Read more.

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Doug Levin

OCTOBER 25, 2015

As Tom envisions, these profiles would include all of the elements of traditional school transcripts, supplemented with richer, more nuanced, and actionable information about student learning attainment, achievement, and needs. In essence, blockchain technology allows a system of trust to be maintained in the absence of a central authority.

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Digital Promise

MARCH 29, 2022

The Kentucky Valley Education Cooperative (KVEC) provides free, competency-based flexible, professional learning opportunities for rural K-12 educators via micro-credentials. Funding is being used to develop a digital badging and pathway system that will interface with the K-12 digital badging and pathways system.

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More Verbs

FEBRUARY 22, 2016

The Learning Through Technology Team at the Maine Department of Education is looking for a high energy, entrepreneurial-thinking, collaborative educator who would like to work with us. We currently have one opening for a Regional Education Representative: Digital Learning Specialist (and anticipate two more in the coming months).

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edWeb.net

OCTOBER 1, 2019

During the edWebinar “ Digital Badge Credentials: Preparing Students with Special Needs for Employment,” the presenters discussed how and why digital badges can help students validate their training and verify their credentials with prospective employers. Many times, though, the problem is also a communication gap.

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Teacher Reboot Camp

MAY 28, 2020

More important than the learning that transpires in our classrooms is the learning we inspire beyond our classroom walls. One way to motivate students to continue using the knowledge acquired in our classes is to set up a virtual learning community. Free Virtual Learning Environments. Grade and send feedback.

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A Principal's Reflections

MARCH 4, 2018

The reaction to Learning Transformed has been truly humbling. All of these experiences empowered us to think about and then create a deep learning experience that could be easily accessible to all educators across the globe. The key to change is not telling, but showing how ideas can transform teaching, learning, and leadership.

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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? The State of STEM Classrooms.

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Education with Technology

SEPTEMBER 12, 2015

The idea of digital badges sounds appealing for the digital children in classes. As teachers start thinking about digital badges, they have to figure out what badges will be awarded. The teachers can award social or academic badges. How much learning will the students do during the course?

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 26, 2019

This op-ed is part of a series of reflections on the past decade in education technology. Marie Cini is the president of the Council for Adult and Experiential Learning. I define education technology as any tool that supports learning, digital or not. An abacus is an educational technology, as is the slide rule.

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Educational Technology Guy

AUGUST 29, 2019

Ozobot , makers of robots that empower coding and STEAM education for grades K–12, recently unveiled its new Ozobot Classroom learning management system. As the only learning management system that provides insights for screen-free activities, teachers can keep up with their students' progress in real time.

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Education with Technology

OCTOBER 29, 2015

Once teachers have selected what learning and what digital badges (individual or category badges; see previous blog ), the teachers encounter another decision. What will they name each badge? If the students cannot recognize the name of the badge learning, then the badge program is not effective for them.

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Education with Technology

JUNE 22, 2016

Digital Badges – 52% Paper Certificates – 48%. World Language: Can-Do Digital Badges. Digital Badges Pro-. – Shows all badges at once. By Harry Grover Tuttle, Ed. College World Language Students’ Preferences. – Breaks down proficiency more. – Is more attractive.

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The Innovative Educator

FEBRUARY 8, 2017

More and more entities are helping people show what they know with micro-credentials and digital badging. Micro-credentials and certifications teach specific job skills and provide evidence indicating if these skills have been attained via a certificate or badge. Here are some ideas: I want more »

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Teacher Reboot Camp

MAY 5, 2018

Many of the missions in my new book, Hacking Digital Learning with Missions , are aimed at inspiring students to think critically, focus on questions versus answers, conduct hands-on research, and make a difference in the world with their innovations. STEAM Up Learning! Real world learning. Cooperative learning.

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Teacher Reboot Camp

DECEMBER 9, 2019

I’ve learned to use free web tools to design headers on different social networks, graphics for books and digital badges, banners, flyers, parent newsletters, programs, digital magazines, book covers, logos, and more! Web Tools for Creating Awesome Graphics. Choose from a library of fonts, shapes, and stock images.

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EdTech Magazine

SEPTEMBER 28, 2018

Instead, there are clever ways to use games to engage and enthuse students in learning. Calling it a game may be a stretch, but users learn about art and artists by engaging the app. Teachers Learn Something, Too. Finally, microcredentials or digital badging are another terrific way to make learning more fun.

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Teacher Reboot Camp

JUNE 19, 2018

If you attend any of my presentations in Chicago or attend virtually by watching any of the live streamed interviews and presentations shared on Twitter( @ShellTerrell ), then you have the opportunity to receive a digital badge and to receive some incredible giveaways! Attending ISTE? Participating Virtually (#NotatISTE18)?

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Ask a Tech Teacher

SEPTEMBER 13, 2018

The first thing most teachers think about when discussing gamified learning is the online math games kids play. Let me step back a moment to explain the SAMR Model as it applies to the use of technology in education. Modification: Technology allows for a significant change, e.g. using screencasts to explain a process.

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Edsurge

MARCH 12, 2019

Kerri Lemoie Part of the reaction was disbelief, since the Open Badges platform was launched back in 2011 to great fanfare (it was originally called Mozilla Open Badges, but Mozilla has since transferred coordination of the standard to IMS Global Learning Consortium).

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A Principal's Reflections

MAY 20, 2014

We have continued to sustain numerous innovative initiatives while looking for other opportunities to improve the learning experience for the school community. However, a lesser known undertaking might possibly redefine learning in ways that we could never have imagined a few years ago. Check out our progress below.

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Technology Tidbits

OCTOBER 5, 2020

Many schools are now realizing they do not have the tools in place so kids can continue to learn while schools are closed. Socrates personalized learning for the students so they are progressing automatically, and provides teachers with tools to monitor progress and assign topics. Socrates is an advertiser of Technology Tidbits.

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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. Micro-credentials can be used to guide, motivate, and validate informal learning. Check out what Mozilla has created with their Open Badges platform.

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iLearn Technology

JULY 10, 2016

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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Teacher Reboot Camp

DECEMBER 1, 2014

Game, learning app, or web tool recommendation calendar. Mission & digital badge calendar - add a learning mission for students to accomplish each day and have a digital badge they will receive if they succeed. Find a video about this here and the slides, Meaningful Learning with Missions and Badges.

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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

Although education prepares us to teach, it is the love of learning that sustains us.”- 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!

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Ask a Tech Teacher

APRIL 13, 2020

On my blog, Ask a Tech Teacher , I run a column called Dear Otto where I answer teacher questions about how to integrate technology into their classes. Of late, the most common question is, “How to I assess student digital literacy?” How do I assess faculty digital literacy so I can teach them what they don’t know?

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EdNews Daily

JUNE 4, 2021

It is a way to recognize teachers’ exemplar teaching skills and for teachers to show their mastery of these skills via a digital badge. Introducing micro-credentials is one way to do this. What exactly is a micro-credential? Is a teacher terrific at facilitating productive discourse?

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Teacher Reboot Camp

DECEMBER 9, 2014

A year ago, I created a technology course on Moodle for Spanish teachers as part of the Ministry of Education of Spain. The teachers are very new to web tools, developing Personal Learning Networks (PLNs) and are currently teaching full time. Reflective Learning with Student Digital Portfolios from Shelly Sanchez Terrell.

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Technology Tidbits

NOVEMBER 29, 2020

Many schools are now realizing they do not have the tools in place so kids can continue to learn while schools are closed. Socrates personalized learning for the students so they are progressing automatically, and provides teachers with tools to monitor progress and assign topics. Socrates is an advertiser of Technology Tidbits.

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eSchool News

JUNE 28, 2021

ATLANTA— MobileMind , the modern professional learning hub for schools, has launched MobileMind Community, the industry’s first competency-based, crowd-sourced PD platform. MobileMind customers can now create and share quality-assured micro-courses across all topics, methodologies, and technology with other MobileMind districts. .

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Edsurge

AUGUST 10, 2023

As colleges and universities continue to confront digital transformation, they must ask themselves, ‘What does our core product — the educational credential — evolve to look like in a more data-rich, technology-centric world?’ The COVID-19 pandemic accelerated the shift toward digital HR.

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