Digital Promise

MARCH 29, 2022

Micro-credentials have proven to be an economically feasible option for competency-based professional development, allowing educators to complete modules remotely in their classrooms or homes and earn continuing education credits. Read the complete KVEC case study here.

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Teacher Reboot Camp

JUNE 19, 2018

If you attend any of my presentations in Chicago or attend virtually by watching any of the live streamed interviews and presentations shared on Twitter( @ShellTerrell ), then you have the opportunity to receive a digital badge and to receive some incredible giveaways! Participating Virtually (#NotatISTE18)? Where to Catch Us!

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EdTech Magazine

JUNE 12, 2018

Traditionally, that requires educators to take courses, whether in the classroom or online. . Also known as digital badges, these tools are increasingly used to improve student focus as well as provide a means to incentivize teachers to complete new disciplines. Open New Doors for Teachers in the Classroom.

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The CoolCatTeacher

APRIL 17, 2018

Some elementary classrooms are using self-directed badges for competency acquisition by students. And Amy, you’re working with digital badges or open badges in elementary school. What are open badges, and how does this work with elementary kids? What is a digital badge and how do students earn one?

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Class Tech Integrate

SEPTEMBER 10, 2015

Digital Badges have started to become a big deal in the everyday classroom. Why do students care about badges? In all of the video games and apps that your students are playing, they earn badges. Kids (and adults) love collecting those badges in the games they play. Badge List Makewav.es

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eSchool News

JULY 23, 2018

Today’s classrooms use a variety of learning approaches , some formal like lectures and some informal like watching videos. Well, you can with a digital badge. Think of them like badges earned in scouting, demonstrating a unique skill or accomplishment. How does a digital badge work? Badge image.

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A Principal's Reflections

MAY 20, 2014

This year alone Laura Fleming , our stellar media specialist, has successfully created a Makerspace for our students as well as a digital badge platform to acknowledge the informal learning of teachers. Virtual space is much more participatory than the regular classroom.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 31, 2017

While some progress has been made, there is still no standardized means for teachers to develop a portfolio of credentials aligned with the always-evolving set of skills and strategies they bring to their classrooms. Next page: Edtech as a starting point; looking ahead at digital badges for PD).

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Teacher Reboot Camp

MAY 28, 2020

Part of the December 2019 STEM Resources Digital Calendar ! More important than the learning that transpires in our classrooms is the learning we inspire beyond our classroom walls. Google Classroom is a favorite with teachers, because it is quick and easy to set up and integrates with various web tools and apps.

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Educational Technology Guy

AUGUST 29, 2019

Ozobot , makers of robots that empower coding and STEAM education for grades K–12, recently unveiled its new Ozobot Classroom learning management system. Once students have started interacting with their robots, Ozobot Classroom will then provide lesson recommendations and build a curriculum based on the individualized student data.

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Digital Promise

MARCH 12, 2019

PBS and KQED offer a set of free media literacy micro-credentials that validate media literacy skills and classroom implementation practices. If it does, then the educator receives the micro-credential in the form of a digital badge that’s linked to the submitted evidence. This blog post originally appeared on KQED.org.

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Neo LMS

JULY 15, 2021

The alternative to four-year degrees comes in the form of digital credentials. Students who have mastered a competency can earn a digital badge to showcase that. Those who have finished a course or a series of courses in a learning path get a digital certificate. Therefore, degrees don’t weigh as much as they used to.

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Teacher Reboot Camp

JULY 21, 2016

Digital badges are having the same impact. When I started giving badges in my online conferences and in my online courses, I noticed teachers and learners posting all over Facebook and on Twitter. We can get students to celebrate citizenship with digital badges. Digital badges , by shellyterrell.

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A Principal's Reflections

DECEMBER 11, 2013

I write this post extremely proud that Laura has run with the autonomy she has been granted and has joined a cadre of NMHS educators and students who are constantly redefining what education should look like in the digital age. The aim of the game was to guess the location of the other classroom by asking each other questions.

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A Principal's Reflections

MARCH 4, 2018

Course Description The Learning Transformed course is designed to support your classroom, district or school's transformation efforts! The course is structured in a way for all educators to take a critical lens to their practice in order to improve the learning culture in a classroom, building, district, or organization.

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More Verbs

AUGUST 9, 2016

What’s all the fuss about micro-credentials and digital badging? Nellie Mae White Paper – Digital Badging and Micro-Credentialing. Digital Promise & Educator Micro-credentials. Digital Promise Educator Micro-credentials. Digital Promise Home. Classroom Supporter. Project Home.

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Class Tech Integrate

SEPTEMBER 10, 2015

Digital Badges have started to become a big deal in the everyday classroom. Why do students care about badges? In all of the video games and apps that your students are playing, they earn badges. Kids (and adults) love collecting those badges in the games they play. Badge List Makewav.es

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A Principal's Reflections

FEBRUARY 21, 2016

There is a great deal of talk these days about micro-credentials and digital badging as a means to acknowledge professional learning of educators. Check out what Mozilla has created with their Open Badges platform. Upon receiving documentation, she issues a digital badge for their learning.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 30, 2020

Working adults are self-directed, bring experience into the classroom and prefer learning that is practical and problem-centered. Recently, Coursera announced a modular MOOC-based bachelor’s degree with the University of North Texas, and edX is experimenting with “ MicroBachelors ” programs as pathways to degrees.

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Digital Promise

FEBRUARY 29, 2016

Richards, in her fourth year in the classroom, teaches seventh grade history. Deeper Learning requires a new way of teaching, changing her classroom from orderly rows of desks to a dynamic world of project-based group work and student-driven exploration. Richards is inspired, but needs more resources to get started.

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A Principal's Reflections

JUNE 8, 2014

Flipped classroom and instructional model implemented in 2012. Creation of a digital badge platform to acknowledge the informal learning of teachers implemented in 2013 by Laura Fleming. Google Apps For Education (GAFE) implemented in 2012 empowering students and staff to learn collaboratively in the cloud.

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Digital Promise

OCTOBER 9, 2018

A micro-credential is a competency-based digital badge teachers can earn. We mapped out our inquiry cycle and came up with different things that we planned to try out in different classrooms. It’s given me a more structured lens for visiting classrooms, providing support, and guiding conversations. It’s incredible.

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Digital Promise

FEBRUARY 29, 2016

Jennifer is the director of the educator micro-credentials initiative at Digital Promise. Richards, in her fourth year in the classroom, teaches seventh grade history. Richards realizes, Deeper Learning requires a real shift in how educators think about teaching and learning, and how classrooms look and feel.

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The CoolCatTeacher

OCTOBER 11, 2017

I had a special education classroom, and I was the Gen Ed teacher. So once we had our feet wet a little bit, and we got a taste of how that was curbing some of the behaviors in our classroom, we just started branching out and giving them more tastes of the G-suite apps. Lee Ann: Of course all of those were keystones in our classroom.

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A Principal's Reflections

FEBRUARY 19, 2017

Choice In the classroom, agency empowers a shift where students can choose the right tool for the right task to demonstrate conceptual understanding and mastery. You can visit her site HERE and begin to earn your own badges through choice or work to implement your own system. This concept can be applied for educators as well.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 3, 2016

We used this rich information, as well as teacher proposed learning progressions on science and engineering practices to build digital badges that validate mastery of skills and practices. Next page: A unique badging model engages students. So, how do we do it? Collaborating with partners.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

SEPTEMBER 13, 2018

Their approach is good but way down the SAMR pyramid to what can be done today, easily, in classrooms. Awarding badges for the accomplishment of steps or completion of skills has become popular in many schools. When those pieces are applied to a classroom, they promote learning in ways that make students want to engage.

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Fractus Learning

SEPTEMBER 1, 2016

Digital badges do just that: they show when students have learned a skill or met a goal. They acknowledge the efforts of students both inside and outside of the classroom, whether it’s coming to class on time, or visiting a museum on the weekend. For teachers, badges make classroom goals visible to students.

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The Shake Up Learning Blog

OCTOBER 25, 2022

The post 20 New Ways to Use Google Classroom [infographic] appeared first on Shake Up Learning. Expand Your Use of Google Classroom. Google Classroom can be used for so much more than just your traditional classroom LMS. Consider these 20 New Ways to Use Google Classroom. 20 NEW Ways to Use Google Classroom.

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Digital Promise

APRIL 17, 2019

Using available micro-credentials from Digital Promise, each educator can create a personalized professional development plan that builds on the expertise they feel they most need in the classroom and in our schools. Solving problems together with the ACT Network. Personalized PD strengthens both individual and group skills.

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EdNews Daily

JUNE 4, 2021

It is a way to recognize teachers’ exemplar teaching skills and for teachers to show their mastery of these skills via a digital badge. Or supporting a sustainable and equitable classroom culture? Is a teacher terrific at facilitating productive discourse?

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More Verbs

FEBRUARY 22, 2016

Are you making great things happen in your classroom, school, district, or region? We currently have one opening for a Regional Education Representative: Digital Learning Specialist (and anticipate two more in the coming months). ” and by providing educators with quality models and examples.

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Shake Up Learning

JANUARY 11, 2021

The post 20 Ways to Use Google Drawings in the Classroom – SULS092 appeared first on Shake Up Learning. In this post and episode, I will give you 20 Ways to Use Google Drawings in the Classroom. 20 Ways to Use Google Drawings in the Classroom. 20 Ways to Use Google Drawings in the Classroom. Create a Digital Badge.

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The Innovative Educator

MARCH 15, 2013

Earlier this school year, a New York Times article highlighted the benefits of using digital badges to enable students, including those writing their college-admission essays, to demonstrate their knowledge and skills.

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Digital Promise

DECEMBER 22, 2014

Every Tuesday and Thursday morning, the Rhode Island Family Literacy Initiative (RIFLI) , one of Digital Promise’s Beacon Project communities , holds computer classes for adult English as a Second Language (ESL) students. At the end of each course, RIFLI staff award digital badges to the students.

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Educator Innovator

AUGUST 7, 2015

Afterschool Alliance’s new set of resources, “Digital Badges In Afterschool: Connecting Learning in a Connected World,” details digital badging efforts around the country. A promising new movement to address this problem is gaining traction around micro-credentials called digital badges.

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Shake Up Learning

JANUARY 22, 2019

The post 15 Google Classroom Tips for Teachers appeared first on Shake Up Learning. 15 Google Classroom Tips for Teachers! Google Classroom is one of the most popular digital tools for the K-12 classroom. Here are 15 Google Classroom Tips for Teachers by Teachers! Create a Google Classroom Class Template.

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