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Interview with Noah Geisel, @SenorG: Motivate with Digital Badges!

Teacher Reboot Camp

Noah Geisel, @SenorG , is the first person who really taught me about the potential micro-credentials and digital badges have to motivate learners to achieve great things throughout their lives. I had used badges for my online learning conferences, but hadn’t quite used badges with students, yet.

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Designing Pathways for Rural Learners Using Micro-credentials: Four Case Studies

Digital Promise

These innovative institutions are: focused on supporting social mobility for poverty-impacted rural learners; prioritizing outreach to communities of color, returning citizens, and women; designing affordable, flexible, and meaningful skills training through micro-credentials; and. Read the complete UMS case study here.

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Digital Badges Validate Skills for Special Needs Students

edWeb.net

Sometimes, there is a skills gap between the desired career and the student’s training. During the edWebinar “ Digital Badge Credentials: Preparing Students with Special Needs for Employment,” the presenters discussed how and why digital badges can help students validate their training and verify their credentials with prospective employers.

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New Social Media Micro-credentials Support Social Mobility for Adult Learners

Digital Promise

Though an estimated one-third of US workers across industries and occupations would benefit from developing digital skills—particularly among workers of color —fewer than 10 percent of people who need digital skills training and support are able to access education services due to longstanding systemic inequities.

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5 Key Areas of Technology Professional Development for Teachers

EdTech Magazine

However, 79 percent displayed a desire to go through training regimens to familiarize themselves with these new tools, according to a PwC report. . Sustained Duration: The idea behind this one is relatively simple: Training takes time. In a report of its pilot year , DLP found the tactics it used had positive results.

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How to Create a Click and Learn Digital Calendar

Teacher Reboot Camp

In your digital calendar, you will present a nugget of learning, each day as a gift! Award a digital badge for each task as an added bonus! You can also create a digital click and launch calendar to launch an edtech mission like the ones in my book, Hacking Digital Learning Strategies with EdTech Missions.

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Balancing Act: Cybersecurity in the Connected Classroom

EdTech Magazine

The APS Digital Badge Program: The APS Digital Badge Program uses microcredentials to describe student success across five key areas: collaboration, critical thinking, information literacy, invention and self-direction. Here, accessibility matters. Who has access to this technology? For what purpose? by Doug Bonderud.