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

MindShift

Digital Promise , a nonprofit with a mission of “accelerating innovation in education,” has been a strong proponent of micro-credentials , describing them as competency-based, on-demand, personalized and shareable. In this model, teachers can no longer attend a workshop and receive credit for merely being there.

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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

’s Mumps Outbreak Tells Us About Our Vaccine Policies.” More on for-profit higher ed policies in the for-profit higher ed section below. “ Digital Badges Are Gaining Traction,” according to MIndwire Consulting’s Michael Feldstein. The “personalized learning” company has raised $6.8

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

Hack Education

And certainly the expectation of many ed-tech products (and increasingly school policy) is that parents will do just this — participate in the incessant monitoring of student data. The sale, the FTC contended, would violate ConnectEDU’s own privacy policy, and it requested that users be notified so they could request their data be destroyed.

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