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Inspire Learning Beyond Your Classroom Walls by Setting Up a Virtual Learning Community

Teacher Reboot Camp

These platforms are online and accessible 24 hours, 7 days a week on multiple devices (computers, tablets, mobile devices and Chromebooks). Edmodo is another safe platform that enables teachers to share content, distribute assignments and quizzes, award digital badges, and quickly communicate with students and parents.

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Inspire Learning Beyond Your Classroom Walls by Setting Up a Virtual Learning Community

Teacher Reboot Camp

These platforms are online and accessible 24 hours, 7 days a week on multiple devices (computers, tablets, mobile devices and Chromebooks). Edmodo is another safe platform that enables teachers to share content, distribute assignments and quizzes, award digital badges, and quickly communicate with students and parents.

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Awareness, Assessment, and Access: Improving Adult Digital Literacy

Digital Promise

To address these different learning levels, RIFLI uses the Northstar Digital Literacy assessment exam as the basis for a curriculum that teaches how to use a computer to using Microsoft Excel and Word as well as social media, specifically Facebook. At the end of each course, RIFLI staff award digital badges to the students.

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New Ways to Gamify Learning

Ask a Tech Teacher

All you need is a special app that loads onto a tablet or smartphone. Awarding badges for the accomplishment of steps or completion of skills has become popular in many schools. To students, it’s a game that wraps them in a fantasy world. It requires none of the tech hardware necessary for virtual reality.

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Digital Activities & Icebreakers for Gen Y

Teacher Reboot Camp

Give them learning missions you grade with digital badges. Check out my bookmarks for creating digital badges. Hashtags are one of the most important inventions of our digital learning. Name a category like favorite dessert, cartoon, sports team and so forth for students to draw the answers to on their tablets.

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

Edsurge

The app then sends a notification to the person’s smartphone or tablet. Future features on the product roadmap include digital badges and reports on children’s behavior measured by the app. When the dishes are done, for example, the dishwasher creates a task in the S’moresUp app and notifies users to remove the dishes.

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

Edsurge

Open digital badges. Introduced in 2010, iPads spurred Dumbo Drops of tablet tech into classrooms. Yes, iPads and tablets have a place, but were not a panacea. Frank Catalano: There are many that ran into the dual buzzsaws of entrenched practice and uneven implementation. Certain interoperability efforts.

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