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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Edsurge

AUGUST 12, 2020

With an uncertain fall and a deep economic downturn, many believe two-year colleges may be the best answer to meeting the higher education needs of both traditional and non-traditional students and workers looking to learn new skills. The Colorado Community College System was an early pioneer in offering digital badges.

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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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A Principal's Reflections

JULY 21, 2014

I remember a few years back during a meeting with teacher leaders, a tipping point that would ultimately change the direction of professional growth at my school. During this conversation I was passionately sharing my experiences as a connected learner.

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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

Include incentives for completing training, such as digital badges, leaderboards, and certificates, for completing training well. Meet with vendors , work together, stay informed, evaluate options for moving forward. You can expect 7–10% of real phishing emails to filter through your blocking systems, so practice matters.

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The Shake Up Learning Blog

OCTOBER 25, 2022

As challenge-based learning grows in popularity, let’s think of ways that we can use Google Classroom to allow students and teachers to, “sign-up,” for optional challenges by joining a Google Classroom Class designed to detail the challenge, provide resources, and allow the user to submit their evidence for meeting the challenge.

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Edsurge

APRIL 4, 2018

Carol Ann Tomlinson's work on differentiated instruction and Benjamin Bloom's work with mastery learning have shaped my understanding of how to meet the needs of each learner. Over the years I’ve become familiar with the ideas and theories commonly advocated for in special education practice. Maslow’s hierarchy of needs and B.F.

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Edsurge

JUNE 25, 2018

This is especially true when it comes to the growing share of jobs that are technology related and hinge on rapidly-evolving skillsets—which today make up more than a quarter of all job openings, according to data from Burning Glass Technologies.

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TeacherCast

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

Above all, your professional development program needs to be designed to meet the needs of the district Strategic Plan. In this example, a school district created a badging program based around the 4C’s of Instructional Technology Integration. Soaring Through the 4C’s of Technology Integration. What are digital badges?

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TeacherCast

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

Step 3: Formulate a Plan that Compliments the Strategic Plan Above all, your professional development program needs to be designed to meet the needs of the district Strategic Plan. 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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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

To encourage students to take advantage of extracurricular activities that may improve their chances of staying enrolled and complement their classroom learning, the University of Central Oklahoma devised a system that awards digital badges for participation in events and clubs and also compiles evidence for interested future employers.

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The CoolCatTeacher

OCTOBER 11, 2017

How cool would it be for kids to have digital badges, the same way that we have (some) that are attached to our e-mails and things like that, for when we achieve our Google Certified Educators and things like that. I went on the hunt, and I created – just using Google Drawings and Canva – these #MakingGoogleMaster badges.

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Digital Promise

FEBRUARY 22, 2016

How can this dean more effectively personalize professional development to meet each teacher where they are and help them get to where they need to be? Micro-credentials, which provide recognition for these concrete competencies in the form of digital badges, could help facilitate this shift.

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Digital Promise

FEBRUARY 22, 2016

How can this dean more effectively personalize professional development to meet each teacher where they are and help them get to where they need to be? Micro-credentials, which provide recognition for these concrete competencies in the form of digital badges, could help facilitate this shift.

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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. For teachers, badges make classroom goals visible to students. Badges show the criteria that students must meet to earn them. Resources for Digital Badges.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 31, 2019

But while employers are critical constituents, we must ensure that in our rush to meet their needs, we aren’t forgetting the learner. These learners know that digital badges and certificates will make them discoverable in the growing number of search tools that employers use to target very specific skills.

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eSpark

JUNE 28, 2016

The widespread adoption of classroom technology for blended learning has had a tremendous impact on students all over the US. Tip #2: Encourage professional learning through technology. However, technology can give teachers access to more relevant professional learning opportunities that they can complete on their own time.

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techlearning

FEBRUARY 19, 2018

Educators are then asked to identify a student’s strengths and challenges and create and implement a plan that supports the student in meeting their goals for learning. Below are the topics about which some of the micro-credentials are focused.

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eSpark

JUNE 28, 2016

1 Provide relevant differentiated experiences for teachers The widespread adoption of classroom technology for blended learning has had a tremendous impact on students all over the US. However, technology can give teachers access to more relevant professional learning opportunities that they can complete on their own time.

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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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EdTechTeam

AUGUST 8, 2017

My entire career, I've been on an "island" or worked in districts with closed mindsets when it comes to teaching with technology. Things like kindness, empathy, tenacity and creativity can now be acknowledged, celebrated and captured using a digital badge! Are educators prepared to design instruction for digital classrooms?

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Shake Up Learning

MAY 2, 2017

As challenge-based learning grows in popularity, let’s think of ways that we can use Google Classroom to allow students and teachers to, “sign-up,” for optional challenges by joining a Google Classroom Class designed to detail the challenge, provide resources, and allow the user to submit their evidence for meeting the challenge.

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EdTechTeam

SEPTEMBER 28, 2018

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. Digital Badging.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 6, 2017

As students enroll and complete courses, they earn digital badges in a “Skills Passport” that school counselors and recruiters can see. This digital tool signals that a student has attained the prerequisite skills for a specific career or vocational path. Currently 20 community college districts are using the tool.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 3, 2016

Remaining a tech-savvy educator means keeping on top of the myriad changes and trends in education, how technology can support those trends, and how teaching and learning can best benefit from near-constant change. In addition to portfolios, MyMantl will offer digital badging tools, competency-based education program designers and job tools.

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A Principal's Reflections

DECEMBER 21, 2014

Whether it be in the form of endless piles of paperwork, never ending observations, meetings with parents, attending events, developing a master schedule, or constructing a school budget – there never seemed like enough time in my day to even get those responsibilities done. Consider flipping your faculty meetings.

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Educator Innovator

MARCH 6, 2015

With a grant from the Philadelphia Youth Network , the Free Library of Philadelphia hired 70 recent high school graduates as “teen badging specialists.” If you haven’t heard, badges are a new type of digital credential students can earn to show off their skills in a type of online profile.).

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Educator Innovator

JULY 8, 2014

This summer, the newly launched Connected Learning Alliance (CLA) has teamed up with the Scratch team at the MIT Media Lab and photographer Jonathan Worth to develop a set of summer programs in the digital arts, targeted at kids who wouldn’t otherwise have access to this kind of summer learning. By Mimi Ito.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

APRIL 9, 2014

Albert Einstein The technologies of the Internet and the Web are reshaping where, when, and from whom we learn--and even how we think about learning. Topics will include how to integrate technology into English Language Arts and Math classrooms, differentiated instruction, technology implementation strategies, and more.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

Having a central hub for all our PD needs has made my job as an Instructional Technology Director easier,” explained Adriane Ellis, Director of Instructional Technology and Media Services for Murray County Schools in Georgia. PLC, Data, or Team meetings).

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Barrow Media Center: Expect the Miraculous

JULY 12, 2017

The Flipgrid team is constantly listening to the rapidly growing community of users and improving the tool to meet the needs of all users. It most recently was named a 2017 AASL Best App and AASL Best Website. As a company, they celebrate the passion of educators, the wisdom of students, and the curiosity of families.

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Teacher Reboot Camp

JULY 16, 2018

Lately, I’ve been busy grading my students’ digital products. Each year my students accomplish so much with technology, such as brainstorming, collaboration, annotation, editing, research, and so forth. I hope this process makes it easier for you to integrate technology in your upcoming classes. The Process.

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EdNews Daily

OCTOBER 22, 2019

Maybe, we need to look at educators in a new context of what teaching really is in most schools, and whether it should be given cultural, economic and technological change. Plus, Teachers are supposed to be maestros of all technologies and personalizing separate paths for every single one of their students. Union meetings.

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edWeb.net

APRIL 23, 2020

However, the goal is always the same: making sure that every student, at every level (classroom, building, district), has access to the resources they need to meet their learning goals. In addition to keeping student privacy and school budgets in mind, teachers also need to make sure that the tools work in the school’s technology environment.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

FEBRUARY 12, 2018

Micro-credentials enable educators to better meet the needs of increasingly diverse student populations and school districts who want to shift professional learning from broad topics to competency, from seat-time to knowledge, from sporadic seminars to acknowledgment that teachers are life-long learners. Not anymore.

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Teacher Reboot Camp

JULY 28, 2017

Plus, the best kind of learning is when we meet the unexpected. Time to do away with the traditional syllabus and make it more engaging for your digital learners. Find out more about mission minded learning in my new book, Hacking Digital Learning Strategies: 10 Ways to Launch EdTech Missions in Your Classroom.

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