A Principal's Reflections

FEBRUARY 19, 2017

Various pathways to personalize learning and make it more personal are also emphasized. Educators should have more choice over how they learn themselves. Accountability for learning is ensured through a vetting process and the badge represents the successful achievement of a learning goal.

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Edthena

MARCH 30, 2021

Micro-credentials are an emerging method for helping teachers document their professional learning. They offer districts an innovative way to document teachers’ skills while allowing the teachers to share their progress with others via a digital badge. Now these barriers are eliminated. Yes, it’s really that simple!

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 30, 2019

As we bid farewell to the teenage years of the 21st century, we posed these questions and others to longtime industry entrepreneurs, analysts and stakeholders about the highs and lows, wins and woes of the past decade. Teachers now use technology in their personal lives and they find it useful in their professional lives.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

Credential Engine hopes its database will eventually help people discern which credentials offer the most value for personal learning and employment opportunities. What may sound like a meditative exercise in patience does have a practical purpose.

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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.

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The Innovative Educator

FEBRUARY 12, 2018

Research-based approach Educators who complete the stack are able to bring into practice a more personalized instructional approach, focusing on each student’s individual learning strengths and needs. Below are the topics about which some of the micro-credentials are focused. Visit the full micro-credential stack.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 13, 2017

In the past, we’ve often thought about formal education as the acquisition of broad skills at a fixed point in time, with training ending at about age 18, 22 or later for those who need advanced degrees. And lifelong learning is the education that never ends: An ever-evolving mastery and proof of abilities.

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More Verbs

OCTOBER 19, 2015

ACTEM and the Maine Department of Education’s Learning Through Technology Team are collaborating on the creation of micro-credentials. They are working in partnership with Digital Promise , a national non-profit organization working to empower educators to use technology to engage, motivate, and personalize learning for all learners.

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techlearning

FEBRUARY 19, 2018

Research-based approach Educators who complete the stack are able to bring into practice a more personalized instructional approach, focusing on each student’s individual learning strengths and needs. Below are the topics about which some of the micro-credentials are focused.

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techlearning

AUGUST 6, 2018

Online professional development courses, allow for anytime, anywhere, self-paced, personalized learning. [ The system can be evidence-based (similar to my digital badging initiative mentioned earlier), or alternately, teachers can even devise plans for how what they learned in the course will be implemented into their practice.

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Marketplace K-12

FEBRUARY 25, 2016

“Individuals and enterprises could anonymously utilize the data to analyze personal learning history,” the Sony Global Education executive said. See a recent blog post Levin wrote about blockchain.). ” See also: ‘Digital Badges’ Would Represent Students’ Skill Acquisition.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 3, 2016

Learners, beginning in high school, will be able to track their academic and professional achievements and own their portfolio collections of learning, training, mentorship and digital credentialing. 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

Through social media a Personal Learning Network (PLN) provides a great antidote to the age-old time excuse. You can now learn anywhere, with anyone, at anytime you want for free. While online consider making some time to learn and then apply a new skill while earning a digital badge to acknowledge your informal learning.

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EdTechTeacher

MARCH 6, 2015

Eric’s journey started about 10 years ago when he was hired to be an administrator in the New Milford school district in New Jersey. To create change, to be a leader, it’s about taking action and leading by example. As an example, Eric tells about his son playing Minecraft. If not, you’ll find an excuse.”

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MindShift

JUNE 29, 2015

STEAM programs, in which teachers integrate the arts and humanities into teaching about science, technology, engineering and math , is also a short-term trend driving technology. Authentic Learning: As with any changing industry, there are many problems standing in the way of effective technology implementation. CHALLENGES.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

FEBRUARY 12, 2018

This time, it’s not about iPads and Chromebooks; it’s 1:1 computing. Digital devices, be they iPads, laptops, Chromebooks, Macs, or PCs, give students access to endless amounts of web-based resources for research, inquiry, collaboration, sharing, and more. How Do Digital Promise’s Micro-Credentials Work?

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edWeb.net

JUNE 4, 2019

About the Presenters. The district was one of three schools recognized nationally by ISTE for its digital badge program. Randy was a Tech & Learning Magazine runner-up for 2017 digital leaders. About the Host. This edWeb webinar was co-hosted by CoSN and edWeb.net and sponsored by ClassLink.

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MindShift

FEBRUARY 15, 2017

Adamczyk appreciated learning from colleagues who teach various ages across the district, all with valuable ideas he could try. ‘I don’t consider it extra work because you’re picking what you want to learn about and you’re getting to use it right away with the kids.’ Digital Promise ).

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

DECEMBER 9, 2014

. - Jacques Barzun The Learning Revolution Project holds online and physical learning events, and highlights professional development opportunities from a network of 200 partners in the learning professions. To subscribe to this newsletter, please sign up at the Learning Revolution. You need to join List.ly Register here.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

JUNE 7, 2015

On modern video game platforms like The Xbox One, PlayStation 4, and Steam, no one really cares about these collections because everyone has them. In a learning ecology–as we use them now–digital badges usually cause little excitement and mean nothing. How To Make Learning Visible: A Spectrum.

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techlearning

MARCH 5, 2018

CHALK AND WIRE MYMANTL ( www.mymantl.com ) Chalk & Wire announced that its learning recognition network, MyMantl, is now fully available for students, educators, employees and employers. Each learning space is equipped with a 20’ 2” (6.16 NUREVA TRANS-ATLANTIC HUMANITY PROJECT ( www.nureva.com ) Nureva Inc.

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Hack Education

AUGUST 12, 2016

Education Dive makes claims about “ MOOCs as tools for equity in under-resourced high schools.” ” Elsewhere, more claims about “the global poor” and MOOCs (and other ed-tech companies) in Edsurge. Here’s a puff piece in Education Dive about the for-profit Ubiquity University.

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Hack Education

JUNE 9, 2017

US Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos appeared in front of a Senate subcommittee this week to talk about Trump’s budget proposal. “Asked About Discrimination , Betsy DeVos Said This 14 Times,” NPR reports : “Schools that receive federal funds must follow federal law.” Education Politics. ”).

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Hack Education

JUNE 16, 2018

All this feeds the review I write each December on the stories we are told about the future of education. ” From the press release : “ Concentric Sky Announces BadgeRank – a New Search Engine for Digital Badges.” Each week, I gather a wide variety of links to education and education technology articles.

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Hack Education

JULY 1, 2016

Well the UK’s Brexit shitshow continues, with all sorts of machinations this past week about who’ll be the new PM. Speaking of horrors: “ The One Group Not Freaking Out About Brexit: VCs.” ” She promises that every kid will learn to code (of course) by having the private sector train CS teachers.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

I thought for a good long while about how best to summarize this decade, and inspired by the folks at The Verge , who published a list of “ The 84 biggest flops, fails, and dead dreams of the decade in tech ,” I decided to do something similar: chronicle for you a decade of ed-tech failures and f**k-ups and flawed ideas. Good for you.

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Hack Education

SEPTEMBER 8, 2017

Buzzfeed reported that – as of 9pm Thursday at least – “ Betsy DeVos Still Hasn’t Said Anything About Trump’s Decision To End DACA.” Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” Via The Chronicle of Higher Education : “That Hilarious Tweet About an Instructor’s Big Mistake?

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