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The New Librarian: I started a digital badging movement for my students

eSchool News

Then in 2015, my teaching partner and I decided to go one step further with our learning management system. Finally, we created paper and digital badges for students to earn to record their achievements.

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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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How to Assess Digital Literacy

Ask a Tech Teacher

The definition of digital literacy is pretty much what you’d expect: “the ability to use information and communication technologies to find, evaluate, create, and communicate information, requiring both cognitive and technical skills.” ” –from the American Library Association. NorthstarDigLit.

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Awareness, Assessment, and Access: Improving Adult Digital Literacy

Digital Promise

RIFLI is also working to increase awareness about the importance of being connected through a partnership with Rhode Island’s public library system. At the end of each course, RIFLI staff award digital badges to the students.

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Learning and Playing and Why Both Matter for Teachers

Ask a Tech Teacher

I eventually learned how the system worked, I learned how to get good grades, and my focus turned more to “learning.”. The transition from print to digitization and the World Wide Web has unlocked another unique opportunity: The ability to provide and quantify online learning whether it is formal or informal.

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Change is a Mindset

A Principal's Reflections

Heck, our education system has become so good at maintaining the status quo and enforcing compliance throughout that we and many others have been brainwashed into thinking any other course of action would be foolish. Makerspace added to the library in 2013. We were no different and had succumbed to a fixed mindset.

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20 New Ways to Use Google Classroom [infographic]

The Shake Up Learning Blog

It’s not a perfect system, but keep in mind that it was designed to protect students and your Google accounts. Think of ways this could be used in programs both in and outside of your own schools like the YMCA, tutoring programs, community sports, and libraries. Badging Systems. SAT/ACT Study Groups.

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