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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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The Power of Positive Climate and Culture

EdTechTeam

Digital Badging. Travel for teachers can be minimized by holding online meetings or webinars for teachers to share out their questions and successes. Eileen Fernandez-Parker is an Innovation and Digital Learning Coach in Charleston County School District, SC. Track data all year with celebrations and share-outs.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

CEET Meet: Disrupting Assessment with Digital Badges. Sue Hellman has shared this PD opportunity for teachers that will discuss how digital badges are transfroming the age-old model of assessment in schools. Classroom 2.0 What do you think? Share your feedback with Joe here.

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In 2019, What’s REALLY the Definition of a Teacher?

EdNews Daily

One must communicate prices, display goods, hold meetings, put up menus and generally relay knowledge from one person to another or many others. It’s librarians that are supposed to curate and guide further studies and deeper dives or sideways jumps to secondary topics. Giving students gold stars or digital badges.

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Planning for the Total Cost of Edtech Initiatives

edWeb.net

Her previous experiences include being a classroom business teacher at the high school and post-secondary levels, assistant director of a vocational cooperative, principal at East Noble High School, and assistant superintendent at East Noble School Corporation. Randy was a Tech & Learning Magazine runner-up for 2017 digital leaders.

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

Hack Education

Despite predictions that badges would be the “ new credential ” and that we were looking at a “ Future Full of Badges ,” it’s not clear that digital badges have provided us with a really meaningful way to assess skills or expertise. They spend several days meeting with educators in these places.

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'Robots Are Coming For Your Jobs'

Hack Education

” One week later, Flatiron School was acquired by WeWork , a company that runs co-working spaces, meet-ups, and now a private K–12 school to teach entrepreneurship – “the new economy” indeed. MIT will issue digital diplomas on the blockchain. In other badging news, Salesforce received a patent for badges.