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Microsoft Education Has New Features for Social-Emotional Learning

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This fall, Microsoft Education is rolling out new features on Teams and OneNote that support social-emotional learning. Beginning in late September, Teams will feature SEL-specific badges that teachers can give to their students as part of the Praise app.

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Microsoft Education Has New Features for Social-Emotional Learning

EdTech Magazine

This fall, Microsoft Education is rolling out new features on Teams and OneNote that support social-emotional learning. Beginning in late September, Teams will feature SEL-specific badges that teachers can give to their students as part of the Praise app.

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Game On: Teachers Should Continue to Gamify Classrooms

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Microsoft purchased “Minecraft,” an immensely popular world-building game, in 2014, and immediately churned out an education edition. Just this February, Microsoft launched a new way to use Minecraft in the classroom by adding a chemistry update. It validates their skills by giving them a badge to display.

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5 Key Areas of Technology Professional Development for Teachers

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If coaches are not available, companies like Microsoft and Google offer resources to help with navigating broad classroom technology practices, as well as specifics about products like Office 365 or Google Classroom. . Now the entire eighth grade is doing vocabulary in their homeroom with digital badges, from a 25-minute presentation.” . .

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Who Owns Digital Badges? A Company's Patent on Credential System Raises Questions

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A few representatives of the Open Badges community brought their questions directly to Credly and IMS Global during an online conference call in October. Belshaw was referring to a move by the tech giant to help the Linux community by making tens of thousands of its patents open source.

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More Employers Are Awarding Credentials. Is A Parallel Higher Education System Emerging?

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IBM runs a digital badging program , now in its seventh year, that has awarded 3.7 In the 1990s, a “parallel postsecondary universe” of IT certifications emerged, as companies like Microsoft, Cisco, Novell and others created non-degree pathways to IT jobs during the dot-com boom.

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What Problems Has Edtech Solved, and What New Ones Did It Create?

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Open digital badges. When its creator, Mojang, was sold to Microsoft in 2014 , educators had every right to be freaked out that a homegrown educational modification might die. But Microsoft later bought the teacher-created MinecraftEdu mod, rebuilt it and relaunched it in 2016 as Minecraft: Education Edition.

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