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Making Time vs Finding Time

A Principal's Reflections

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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What Education Technology Could Look Like Over the Next Five Years

MindShift

The report notes, “This challenge is exacerbated by the fact that digital literacy is less about tools and more about thinking, and thus skills and standards based on tools and platforms have proven to be somewhat ephemeral.”. These policies reflect the reality of students’ lives and can also cut down on school technology costs.

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2016 Global Education Conference - Monday Is Day Two!

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

If you reach a total of 300 points, you will be eligible for a special digital badge and a personalized certificate of participation from the GEC! Here is a player's guide to getting started with Chrome Warrior. Please read it thoroughly if you are considering playing.

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2016 Global Education Conference - Monday Is Day Two!

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

If you reach a total of 300 points, you will be eligible for a special digital badge and a personalized certificate of participation from the GEC! Here is a player's guide to getting started with Chrome Warrior. Please read it thoroughly if you are considering playing.

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Can Micro-credentials Create More Meaningful Professional Development For Teachers?

MindShift

For the past several years the district has been focused on personalizing learning for its students by introducing more choice into classrooms, using blended learning strategies and offering multi-age classrooms. As soon as the district instituted the policy, educators were developing ideas for micro-credentials.

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Uncommon Learning

A Principal's Reflections

Issues such as equity, infrastructure, policy development, digital responsibility, pedagogy, and tools will be discussed. Digital badges and micro-credentials : Digital badges are beginning to be embraced as a means to acknowledge a particular skill, accomplishment, or quality associated with learning.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

.” The company – funded by Mark Zuckerberg, Bill Gates, Pearson, Learn Capital, and others – says it will remain open. The US Department of Education announced it was launching “a pilot to test rigorously the effectiveness of more flexible loan counseling policies on federal student loan borrowers.”