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Higher Ed Should Pay Attention to the Corporate World’s Growing Use of Skills Data

Edsurge

The COVID-19 pandemic accelerated the shift toward digital HR. Today, new technologies are reshaping employers’ talent strategies and hiring processes, including the growing use of AI-based recruitment tools, skills assessments and internal talent marketplaces.

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It’s Time to Digitally Transform Community College

Edsurge

Given the sizeable and crucial population of students served by community colleges, all of this means that policymakers, edtech companies, four-year institutional partners and others must consider how we can build a technology infrastructure and a set of strategies to transition community colleges into the increasingly digital future.

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New Ways to Gamify Learning

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It is used to discuss the implementation of technology in the classroom by organizing tech-in-education tools into four categories or types of usage: Substitution: Technology is a direct replacement for something, e.g. ebooks in place of print books or online math drills in place of worksheets.

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Issuing Micro-Credentials to Your Teachers Can Reward Competency

Edthena

They offer districts an innovative way to document teachers’ skills while allowing the teachers to share their progress with others via a digital badge. The teachers receive their digital badges via email and can transfer them to a badge backpack or post them to their professional profiles like LinkedIn.

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With the Internet of Things, Smart Dishwashers Can Give Kids Chores

Edsurge

The basic, free version of the app comes with family management tools for unlimited family members and unlimited devices. Future features on the product roadmap include digital badges and reports on children’s behavior measured by the app. There is no replacement for falling back on your old-school parenting techniques.”

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Online PD Courses Help Educators Understand Ed-Tech, Classroom Management, Study Finds

Marketplace K-12

The three biggest reasons pre-K-12 educators took online professional development courses in the past year were to learn how to use digital devices, how to use the educational software that goes on them, or to find out more about classroom behavior or management, according to a new study. To receive a digital badge: 10 percent.

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

Edsurge

Those building, funding and using edtech tools must similarly wrestle with these concerns. Now, educators are focused on linking edtech tools directly to student learning outcomes. Open digital badges. An idea or tool that very few anticipated would take off.but actually did.) Certain interoperability efforts.

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