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Can Digital Badges Help Encourage Professors to Take Teaching Workshops?

Wired Campus

A few colleges are trying a new incentive to get professors to participate in professional-development workshops: digital badges. Kent State University, for instance, is offering badges to professors who complete workshops on how to improve their online teaching, which are offered by Kent State Online.

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Learning Revolution - Week's Free Events - May Is Ed Tech Month - Geo-Educators - Natural Math - Oxygen Masks and You

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

Wednesday, April 9th at 4pm Thinking Scientifically: Video and Formative Assessment with POPstar Robert Miller , POPstar Robert Miller - an award-winning 5th-grade teacher - hosts this interactive workshop covering inquiry-based science curriculum; the creative use of video; and one of his favorite resources, NSTA’s Formative Assessment Probes.

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20 Ways to Use Google Drawings in the Classroom – SULS092

Shake Up Learning

Learn how to create graphic organizers like the one above, and get access to free Google templates in the Blended Learning with Google Workshop. Create a Digital Badge. A digital badge is a digital image that is awarded for reaching a goal or milestone. Google Drawings makes this easy peasy.

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

Hack Education

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. IBM boasted a partnership with the Sesame Workshop to build “ cognitive learning ” apps. Wedge Tailed Green Pigeon.

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