Edsurge

DECEMBER 26, 2019

This op-ed is part of a series of reflections on the past decade in education technology. I define education technology as any tool that supports learning, digital or not. I define education technology as any tool that supports learning, digital or not. An abacus is an educational technology, as is the slide rule.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 19, 2021

One path points toward on-the-job training. Apprenticeships have long been a mainstay for hiring people into skilled trades, but they’ve lately gained some momentum as a way to train people for office work , too, including for information technology positions that are in high demand. The other takes a detour through college.

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Educational Technology Guy

AUGUST 29, 2019

Once teachers create an account, they will be guided through training in Ozobot’s 2 Ways to Code: on-screen with OzoBlockly visual programming and screen-free with Color Codes. The SIIA CODiE Awards recognize the top innovative products and services in the education and business technology industries.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 10, 2023

As colleges and universities continue to confront digital transformation, they must ask themselves, ‘What does our core product — the educational credential — evolve to look like in a more data-rich, technology-centric world?’ The COVID-19 pandemic accelerated the shift toward digital HR.

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Edsurge

MARCH 25, 2021

A growing number of companies have moved beyond training their own employees or providing tuition assistance programs to send staff members to higher education. IBM runs a digital badging program , now in its seventh year, that has awarded 3.7 million credentials to date, growing at a 61 percent pace from 2019 to 2020.

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Teacher Reboot Camp

JANUARY 30, 2018

Get your copy of Hacking Digital Learning , The 30 Goals Challenge , or Learning to Go. Ask me about training your teachers, ShellyTerrell@gmail.com ! Learn how to integrate technology effectively through hands-on collaborative tasks and materials development. Learning how to set achievable, short-term goals is so powerful!

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Ask a Tech Teacher

APRIL 13, 2020

On my blog, Ask a Tech Teacher , I run a column called Dear Otto where I answer teacher questions about how to integrate technology into their classes. Of late, the most common question is, “How to I assess student digital literacy?” How do I assess faculty digital literacy so I can teach them what they don’t know?

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Edsurge

JANUARY 5, 2021

Their predictions revolve around the continued acceleration of the use of technology in education and work, an increased reliance on educational offerings that are lower cost and more convenient, and a further crumbling of the false dichotomy between short-term credentials and full degrees. Here’s how it breaks down: 1.

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Teacher Reboot Camp

MAY 5, 2018

Many of the missions in my new book, Hacking Digital Learning with Missions , are aimed at inspiring students to think critically, focus on questions versus answers, conduct hands-on research, and make a difference in the world with their innovations. Ask me about training your teachers, ShellyTerrell@gmail.com ! STEAM Up Learning!

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EmergingEdTech

APRIL 18, 2023

Make security training a regular routine of life. Include incentives for completing training, such as digital badges, leaderboards, and certificates, for completing training well. With regular practice using KnowBe4 training programs, districts have gone from a 32% fail rate on phishing tests to a 4% fail rate.

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Edsurge

JULY 17, 2019

That’s the kind of deeply human attribute employers say they’re looking for in job candidates as companies try to adapt to modern changes in technology and business strategy. One challenge is making career training accessible to college students—and convincing them to participate. Seems simple enough.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 12, 2020

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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Wired Campus

JUNE 9, 2015

A few colleges are trying a new incentive to get professors to participate in professional-development workshops: digital badges. Among the most popular badge platforms are Credly and the Mozilla Open Badges project. The University of Central Florida has been experimenting with badges for its technology workshops as well.

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eSchool News

JUNE 28, 2021

MobileMind customers can now create and share quality-assured micro-courses across all topics, methodologies, and technology with other MobileMind districts. . Founded in 2015, MobileMind is a privately held, Atlanta-based educational technology company. About MobileMind.

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TeacherCast

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

In this example, a school district created a badging program based around the 4C’s of Instructional Technology Integration. Each marking period was given a “C-Theme” and inside each of the themes, teachers were encouraged to earn up to 4 badges to demonstrate proficiency over each of the C’s. What are digital badges?

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TeacherCast

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

Professional Development Example Through Badging #1 In this example, a school district created a badging program based around the 4C’s of Instructional Technology Integration. What are digital badges? Badges are a way to recognize staff members for gaining skills and experiences they can use with their students.

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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? When we apply principals of efficacy to the Pillars of Digital Leadership , we’re well on our way toward integrating technology with confidence that learning will be transformed. The 7 pillars of digital leadership.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

Both reports note that most jobs available today require some education or training beyond a high school diploma, and that on average, workers who have post-secondary credentials earn more than those who don’t. Crunching Credentials Data Why expend all this effort researching credentials?

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Technology Tidbits

MARCH 15, 2020

No training is necessary for the teachers or students. This is done through fun and engaging learning games w/ educational portal where teachers can track and monitor student progress, assign educational videos, use a digital badge system, testing, benchmarking, and much much more. Below is a brief demo.

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Technology Tidbits

JULY 22, 2020

No training is necessary for the teachers or students. This is done through fun and engaging learning games w/ educational portal where teachers can track and monitor student progress, assign educational videos, use a digital badge system, testing, benchmarking, and much much more. Below is a brief demo.

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Technology Tidbits

JUNE 9, 2020

No training is necessary for the teachers or students. This is done through fun and engaging learning games w/ educational portal where teachers can track and monitor student progress, assign educational videos, use a digital badge system, testing, benchmarking, and much much more. Below is a brief demo.

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The Shake Up Learning Blog

OCTOBER 25, 2022

Related: Google Classroom Student Selector (Digital Popsicle Sticks!). Badging Systems. Digital Badging as become a fun way for teachers and students to show off their accomplishments. Organizing and tracking badges could easily be managed through Google Classroom. New Teacher Training. What do you think?

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Technology Tidbits

APRIL 24, 2020

No training is necessary for the teachers or students. This is done through fun and engaging learning games w/ educational portal where teachers can track and monitor student progress, assign educational videos, use a digital badge system, testing, benchmarking, and much much more. Below is a brief demo.

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Edsurge

JUNE 25, 2018

This is especially true when it comes to the growing share of jobs that are technology related and hinge on rapidly-evolving skillsets—which today make up more than a quarter of all job openings, according to data from Burning Glass Technologies.

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techlearning

OCTOBER 10, 2018

Creating & Coding Picademy (Raspberry Pi Foundation) [FREE] www.raspberrypi.org/training/picademy Become a Raspberry Pi Certified Educator. Picademy is the Raspberry Pi Foundation’s free face-to-face professional development program that supports educators throughout their digital making and computing journey.

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Digital Promise

DECEMBER 22, 2014

The classes are a product of RIFLI’s plan to create a 1:1 classroom computing model that, according to RIFLI’s Director Karisa Tashjian, “blurs the lines between language/content learning and using technology.” At the end of each course, RIFLI staff award digital badges to the students.

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Digital Promise

MARCH 16, 2015

With today’s technology , learners can cover more ground faster or travel in new ways. Completing a training program or receiving a degree is not a destination but one milestone in a learner’s journey. Additionally, micro-credentials create a platform for Mr. Smith to share his new skills through portable digital badges.

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techlearning

APRIL 25, 2018

To develop in-demand skills and streamline employers’ hiring process, Education Design Lab launches the 21st Century Skills Badges after three years of research, design and pilots. The rigor that goes into earning a digital badge provides a helpful indicator of what we can expect to see from that person on the job.”

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 23, 2017

Some of those teachers spend upwards of 150 hours every year on training sessions, workshops and conferences that sometimes resemble what many students experience in the classroom: listening to a lecture and taking notes. These digital badges aim to signal that teachers can perform or demonstrate the skill for which they were awarded.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 31, 2019

By some estimates, within a decade, only 30 to 40 percent of “college students” will physically attend a college to earn a degree, while many of the rest will shop for chunks of education and training that allow them to take the next step in their careers while also stacking toward an eventual degree.

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EdTechTeacher

SEPTEMBER 23, 2016

Google understands this need and provides the Google for Education Online Training Center for educators to explore, polish their skills and expand their knowledge of GAFE. One of the most exciting aspects of the training center is that the online content is free! 1) The content is focused on classroom integration.

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Edsurge

JULY 14, 2018

The existing standards for this kind of data were like a Babylon of different languages, understood only in their own domain (such as medical training, human resources, K-12 or postsecondary). The IEEE Learning Technology Standards Committee (LTSC) plans to update its existing standards based on this work. K-12 learners.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 13, 2017

But to train this workforce effectively, we’ll need to change the way we approach education. In the past, we’ve often thought about formal education as the acquisition of broad skills at a fixed point in time, with training ending at about age 18, 22 or later for those who need advanced degrees. Weekly Update. Future of Learning.

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Marketplace K-12

JUNE 27, 2016

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. Training for electronic/digital devices: 33 percent.

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EdTechTeam

SEPTEMBER 28, 2018

As a coach assisting teachers with technology integration and personalized learning, I notice patterns arising from teacher to teacher. The importance of climate and culture in a classroom and across a school are imperative to successful technology integration, personalized learning, and empowered learning. Digital Badging.

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MindShift

JUNE 29, 2015

In a fast-moving field like education technology, it’s worth taking a moment to take stock of new developments, persistent trends and the challenges to effective tech implementation in real classrooms. This macro trend to shake up typical ways of schooling is opening new opportunities for technology to play an even bigger role in education.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

To encourage students to take advantage of extracurricular activities that may improve their chances of staying enrolled and complement their classroom learning, the University of Central Oklahoma devised a system that awards digital badges for participation in events and clubs and also compiles evidence for interested future employers.

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