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Can Competency-Based Education Demonstrate Mastery Across a Lifetime? #DLNchat

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Many #DLNchat -ters agreed that digital portfolios were one way to show skill mastery, but needed to go further. Keith Bevacqua shared this idea: “Perhaps by archiving full work sets after a course, not just providing a digital badge. The work completed in a CBE program could become part of a digital CV.”

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Turning ‘Google Maps for Education’ From Metaphor to Reality

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The LTSC is also working on related standards for mobile learning platforms, adaptive instructional systems and augmented reality learning environments. Open Registry of K-12 Learning Standards State academic standards help define the learning objectives for U.S.

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Join Us in Chicago for the Fourth Annual Global Leadership Summit - March 15, 2019

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In her consulting life, she has led CoSN’s Leadership for Mobile Learning initiative, developed strategic plans and content for companies, provided professional Gray is the recipient of ISTE’s Making It Happen award and the Apple Distinguished Educator and Google Certified Innovator distinctions. Department of Education.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

How does your library manage digital collections? Is your library mobile friendly? 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

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

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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. Debugging software and hardware issues on-the-fly. Being emotional support, inspiring. Being social and engaging students through expression of interest.

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Planning for the Total Cost of Edtech Initiatives

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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

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In 2018, Mozilla said it would retire Backpack, its platform for sharing and displaying badges, and would help users move their badges to Badgr, software developed by the tech company Concentric Sky. Wedge Tailed Green Pigeon. The Teacher Influencer Hustle. And I’d never gotten my Ph.D. So I thought maybe this is the way it works.”. “I

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