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Beyond Badges: Why Personalized Learning Advocates Need to Care about Blockchain

Doug Levin

While digital badging and its underlying technical approach points a way forward to solving some of the issues associated with a ‘distributed proof of learning’ system, there has emerged another approach that might hold even more promise: blockchain technology.

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How digital badges are shaking up teacher PD

eSchool News

While some progress has been made, there is still no standardized means for teachers to develop a portfolio of credentials aligned with the always-evolving set of skills and strategies they bring to their classrooms. Badges help teachers focus on relevant professional developments opportunities because they support personalized learning.

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4 Digital learning trends for Higher Education

Neo LMS

Instructors can use personalized learning platforms to create online courses and assign competencies to each learning activity. The alternative to four-year degrees comes in the form of digital credentials. Students who have mastered a competency can earn a digital badge to showcase that.

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Roadmap to a Job-Embedded Growth Model

A Principal's Reflections

Undeterred, I continued to talk about the concept of a Personal Learning Network (PLN) and what it had done for my professional growth. Adding more depth to the PGP process and portfolio has been the digital badge platform created by media specialist Laura Fleming to acknowledge the informal learning of our teachers.

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Agency: Important for Students and Educators

A Principal's Reflections

In terms of communication, the aspect of listening is just as important in leading and sustaining change as the use of verbal and non-verbal strategies. Educator voice can be cultivated using the following strategies: Flipped staff meetings – Everyone who plans a meeting works terribly hard to develop and then get through an agenda.

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Using Micro-credentials for Personalized Professional Development

Digital Promise

Allen Elementary in rural Floyd County, Kentucky, has embedded micro-credentials within a system of personalized learning. Personalized PD strengthens both individual and group skills.

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What Problems Has Edtech Solved, and What New Ones Did It Create?

Edsurge

Personalized learning technology that dynamically adapts to student needs while offering teachers real-time insight into each student’s performance has been proven to increase student achievement. Open digital badges. What technology never lived up to expectations or the hype? Certain interoperability efforts.

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