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Motivate Students with Digital Badges

Teacher Reboot Camp

Part of the December 2019 STEM Resources Digital Calendar ! Motivate students with digital badges. The Mac Arthur Foundation defines a digital badge as “an assessment and credentialing mechanism that is housed and managed online. ” A digital badge looks similar to a Girl Scout or Boy Scout patch.

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Integration of Digital Badges to Acknowledge Professional Learning

A Principal's Reflections

I am proud to announce Worlds of Learning @ New Milford High School , a digital badge professional learning platform. For some time now, we have been hearing about digital badges and how they can be used to guide, motivate, document and validate formal and informal learning. ?In By putting them on Mozilla OpenBadge. ?

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Learning Transformed Course

A Principal's Reflections

As a result, an online course was created with the help of Participate. Below you will see how the course is structured as well as learner outcomes. Course Description The Learning Transformed course is designed to support your classroom, district or school's transformation efforts! Anyone can register HERE.

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9 Reasons You Should Join the Free Goal Minded Teacher Online Course!

Teacher Reboot Camp

I am excited to announce that after a year collaborating with INTEF (Instituto Nacional de Tecnologías Educativas y de Formación del Profesorado) and the Ministry of Education and Culture in Spain, The Goal Minded Teacher: Challenges to Transform Student Learning ( #EduGoalsMOOC ) free open online course will launch on February 13, 2018.

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5 Key Areas of Technology Professional Development for Teachers

EdTech Magazine

Schools participating in DLP’s program found 86 percent of teachers used technology more during the course of the year, compared to 76 percent of those not in the program. Now the entire eighth grade is doing vocabulary in their homeroom with digital badges, from a 25-minute presentation.” . .

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Student Reflection with Digital Portfolios

Teacher Reboot Camp

A year ago, I created a technology course on Moodle for Spanish teachers as part of the Ministry of Education of Spain. The course is task based and I’m fortunate to be one of the instructors. The course will soon be over so I am grading their reflective eportfolio final projects.

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Game On: Teachers Should Continue to Gamify Classrooms

EdTech Magazine

Break Out of the Digital Mold. Of course, you don’t need an actual game or app to use elements of gamification in the classroom. Teachers can create digital breakouts using several Google functions , including Sites, Forms, Drawing and Slides. It validates their skills by giving them a badge to display.