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Interview with Noah Geisel, @SenorG: Motivate with Digital Badges!

Teacher Reboot Camp

Noah Geisel, @SenorG , is the first person who really taught me about the potential micro-credentials and digital badges have to motivate learners to achieve great things throughout their lives. I had used badges for my online learning conferences, but hadn’t quite used badges with students, yet.

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New Social Media Micro-credentials Support Social Mobility for Adult Learners

Digital Promise

Though an estimated one-third of US workers across industries and occupations would benefit from developing digital skills—particularly among workers of color —fewer than 10 percent of people who need digital skills training and support are able to access education services due to longstanding systemic inequities.

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Digital Badges Validate Skills for Special Needs Students

edWeb.net

Sometimes, there is a skills gap between the desired career and the student’s training. 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.

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Balancing Act: Cybersecurity in the Connected Classroom

EdTech Magazine

It’s essential to meet student expectations and to satisfy state regulations. The APS Digital Badge Program: The APS Digital Badge Program uses microcredentials to describe student success across five key areas: collaboration, critical thinking, information literacy, invention and self-direction. For what purpose?

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9 Reasons You Should Join the Free Goal Minded Teacher Online Course!

Teacher Reboot Camp

Get your copy of Hacking Digital Learning , The 30 Goals Challenge , or Learning to Go. Ask me about training your teachers, ShellyTerrell@gmail.com ! The educators you meet will share resources, experience, and offer support! Some of the people you meet will remain your friends for life!

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Digital Skills Make a Difference for Adult Learners

Digital Promise

The number of middle-skill jobs that require digital skills continues to grow. Last fall, in an effort to address this gap, Facebook pledged to train 3,000 Michiganders in digital skills by 2020 through the Digital Skills Micro-credential program created in partnership with Digital Promise.

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OPINION: Our workforce must be ready to help growing numbers of students who come to school learning English

The Hechinger Report

One Alabama town is trying to change that We can help address this problem by creating a highly trained, skilled and culturally competent educator workforce. Traditional ESOL training and certification courses are typically based on credit accumulation, focusing on academic knowledge over real time application of learning.