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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. Evidence inside Edthena can range from videos of teaching to unit plans to sample student work. Now these barriers are eliminated. Now these barriers are eliminated.

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

Edsurge

Open digital badges. Shauntel Garvey, General Partner at Reach Capital Shauntel Garvey: When initially thinking about video conferencing, I like others envisioned a boardroom instead of a classroom. What technology never lived up to expectations or the hype? Certain interoperability efforts.

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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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Millennials: The Straw That Will Stir Higher Education’s Next Disruption

EdNews Daily

Their attention is also captured by an intense entertainment milieu of movies, TV, video games, comics, and the internet (with more students in the grip of internet addiction , even to mostly text-based sites such as Reddit). One example of this is the newest trend of “ digital badges.”

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

Updates Partner Spotlight Partner Announcements Calendar of Events Deadlines Highlighted Recordings NMC Navigator Top Ten Conversations Submit a Video or Quote Final Notes Updates Learning Revolution Big Events Updates. CEET Meet: Disrupting Assessment with Digital Badges. Classroom 2.0 What do you think? Read more here.

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In 2019, What’s REALLY the Definition of a Teacher?

EdNews Daily

Advertising does this, the news does this, so does professional mentoring, documentaries, books, videos and of course mothers and fathers. The teachers already have to do all that work for the academic standards in that week’s pile to narrow-cast what chapter or software module, discussion questions, what to write a paper on, etc.

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WHAT’S NEW

techlearning

Software & Online ACCELERATE LEARNING STEMSCOPES SCIENCE ( www.stemscopes.com ) Accelerate Learning announced a new platform using the best of CNN’s digital content to create a new science education product. EDTHENA ( www.edthena.com ) Edthena has developed a one-click video recording and uploading solution for Google Chrome.

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