Digital Promise

APRIL 8, 2016

Studies suggest American schools invest $18 billion in teachers’ professional learning annually. But considerable evidence indicates that formal professional development often misses the mark. And while teachers are also learning in informal ways, existing systems don’t track or make the most of that growth. .

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edWeb.net

AUGUST 7, 2019

Now, organizations like Digital Promise have developed micro-credential programs, which recognize educators for acquiring new skills. The goal of micro-credentials, according to Younge, is to capture the educator demonstrating these skills and provide their schools with evidence of the professional learning. About the Host.

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A Principal's Reflections

FEBRUARY 21, 2016

There is a great deal of talk these days about micro-credentials and digital badging as a means to acknowledge professional learning of educators. Acknowledging the informal learning of educators had been a long- neglected area in schools, and Ms. Fleming felt she could make a big impact there.

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Digital Promise

APRIL 17, 2019

The ACT Network brings together shared school leadership teams—teachers, principals, central office staff who serve the schools, and community advocates—to analyze a school’s data sources, including demographic data, perception and survey data, learning data, and program data. Micro-credentials are a solution to this need.

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A Principal's Reflections

MARCH 4, 2018

It alters the use of authentic assessments, how technology is leveraged, the spaces in which the learning occurs, the way educators grow professionally, how schools collaborate with the community, and the sustainability of the system as a whole. You are part of the solution. Register today!

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EdTech Magazine

JUNE 12, 2018

In efforts to make time-mandated and compliance-based professional learning efficient, technology offers microcredentialing as a vehicle for educators to pursue personal growth. Educating teachers on how to make use of these digital solutions is a major factor for overall success,” Cator continues.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

Digital badges, microcredentials and digital credentials… What sets them apart, or are they synonymous? Yet, there is clear value in digital credentials within higher education and job-embedded professional learning. What are the advantages for learners to use digital credentialing?

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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.

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The Shake Up Learning Blog

OCTOBER 25, 2022

This powerful tool can provide a space for teacher-to-teacher collaboration, professional learning and support, parent communication, and even special projects and enrichment classes for students. It’s not a perfect system, but keep in mind that it was designed to protect students and your Google accounts. Badging Systems.

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A Principal's Reflections

FEBRUARY 19, 2017

Planning professional learning – How many of us dreaded professional development (PD) days? They should also have choice over resources that they, the experts who work with students the most on a day to day basis, feel are valuable to support and enhance learning.

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Digital Promise

FEBRUARY 22, 2016

Micro-credentials, which provide recognition for these concrete competencies in the form of digital badges, could help facilitate this shift. In fact, I see the systems as complementary. But in the world of micro-credentials, the earner could have done their learning anywhere!

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 21, 2018

How can we best harness the positive aspects of technology to improve student learning and the schools we work in? As a first step, we need to disrupt the status quo that’s embedded in the education system by developing new ways of looking at things that transform the world.

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More Verbs

OCTOBER 19, 2015

15, by ACTEM and the Maine’s Learning Through Technology Team. What if schools and teachers had support for professional learning that met their needs and was on their own terms? ” iLearnMaine represents the first state initiative to use micro-credentials as a systemic approach to supporting educators.

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Digital Promise

FEBRUARY 22, 2016

Micro-credentials, which provide recognition for these concrete competencies in the form of digital badges, could help facilitate this shift. In fact, I see the systems as complementary. But in the world of micro-credentials, the earner could have done their learning anywhere!

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techlearning

AUGUST 6, 2018

If we have heard it said once, we have heard it said 1,000 times: Professional Development is Broken For every time we have heard that said, we have also heard suggestions on how to fix it. Schools want their educators to learn and grow, but in practice, professional development is innately broken, or even in some situations, nonexistent.

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Shake Up Learning

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

The post Digital Badges in the Classroom (What, When, & How) – SULS096 appeared first on Shake Up Learning. Let’s talk digital badges with the experts: Cate Tolnai and Jen Gibson! Digital badges can help us engage students (even remote learners). What Are Digital Badges?

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Shake Up Learning

MAY 2, 2017

It’s not a perfect system, but keep in mind that it was designed to protect students and your G Suite for Education accounts. Badging Systems. Digital Badging as become a fun way for teachers and students to show off their accomplishments. Use #GoogleClassroom for Badging! Online Professional Learning.

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EdTechTeacher

MARCH 6, 2015

” Excuses and opinions will not do anything to change systems. Question: why are we perpetuating an out of date system? Students walk into school and suddenly feel a disconnect: Learning is confined to a schedule and a chair. The system is about a 1-size fits all approach. Professional Learning.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

JANUARY 7, 2019

The Global Leadership Summit will provide participants with the unique opportunity to: Develop the capacity to lead classrooms and educational systems that foster in students the will and the skill to tackle problems of real-world significance locally and globally.

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Edsurge

JUNE 19, 2020

It is still early in the adoption of these digital hiring practices—and how employers deploy them is still very much a “black box.” As those hiring methods go digital, they could speed adoption of new kinds of microcredentials and digital badges designed to show employers the fine-grained skills achieved during educational programs.

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eSchool News

JUNE 23, 2021

June 21, 2021) MobileMind , the modern professional learning hub for schools, is now a certified ClassLink partner, a leader in cloud-based education products, including single sign-on and streamlined class rostering. ClassLink empowers 14 million students and staff in over 1,800 school systems. Atlanta, Ga.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

FEBRUARY 12, 2018

Micro-credentials enable educators to better meet the needs of increasingly diverse student populations and school districts who want to shift professional learning from broad topics to competency, from seat-time to knowledge, from sporadic seminars to acknowledgment that teachers are life-long learners. Not anymore. personalized.

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edWeb.net

APRIL 23, 2020

Kelley is superintendent of Oak Park Elementary School District 97, a PreK–8 public school system in Oak Park, IL, with 6,150 students. Dr. Kelley is deeply committed to addressing historical disparities in school systems and realizing a compelling vision of educational equity for every student. Dr. Carol L. About the Host.

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edWeb.net

JUNE 4, 2019

Total cost of ownership: First, administrators need to look at the expenses from a systemic view. Are they prepared to adapt to other systems? He has presented regionally, statewide and nationally on topics that have a foundation in professional learning communities and innovative schools. Join the Community.

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edWeb.net

APRIL 5, 2022

Recruiting people to participate in the learning community as a result of not having sufficient time to thoroughly research the target population’s unique needs and not effectively demystifying microlearning as an innovative, well-rounded way to build competencies and reach mastery. The Impact: A Testimonial. Do micro-credentials work?

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MindShift

FEBRUARY 15, 2017

While educators around the country are slowly adopting various approaches that allow them to better differentiate learning for students, the same is rarely true for the adult learners in the system. Superintendent Deklotz says being a reviewer is great professional learning in and of itself.

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Hack Education

JULY 1, 2016

Via Inside Higher Ed : “ Excelsior College and publisher Cengage Learning on Tuesday said they would partner to create self-paced online degree programs to give students an alternative pathway to college credit.” Conference of Mayors Resolves to Support Digital Badging ,” says Edsurge. ” “U.S.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 17, 2017

Demanding that schools teach “the right skills” is also one of many examples of an ongoing “innovation” fixation , of how industry is pressing the education system to bend to its needs. MIT will issue digital diplomas on the blockchain. In other badging news, Salesforce received a patent for badges.

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