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. Both of these initiatives have exceeded our expectations and have been met by rave reviews from staff and students alike.

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Teacher Reboot Camp

MAY 5, 2018

They create questions, make predictions, test these out, collect data, and come to conclusions. To inspire learning in the summer add them to a digital calendar that students click on to see the activity and receive a digital badge for completing the activity.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

APRIL 13, 2020

Test takers can receive digital badges and/or certificates when they pass assessments (probably at a Northstar testing location). Then, online, self-guided modules assess the ability of the user to perform these tasks. NorthstarDigLit.

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Digital Promise

MAY 21, 2019

Earners receive a shareable digital badge that enhances their resume and validates their unique skills. All micro-credentials issued on Digital Promise’s Micro-credential Platform are Open Badges, which has been important for the growth of the micro-credentialing ecosystem.

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Digital Promise

APRIL 17, 2019

The ACT Network brings together shared school leadership teams—teachers, principals, central office staff who serve the schools, and community advocates—to analyze a school’s data sources, including demographic data, perception and survey data, learning data, and program data.

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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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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. Data Coach. Project Home.

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Digital Promise

NOVEMBER 26, 2018

Build a community of collaboration : Partners stressed that to sustain a digital skills program, collaboration is vital to leverage existing resources, consolidate information and data, expand to more advanced levels, and broaden offerings to other industries and employers.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 30, 2020

Non-Degree Microcredentials as Pathways to Lifelong Learning and Degrees From digital badges and nanodegrees, to MicroMasters and new types of certificates, there’s an explosion of professionally-oriented microcredential offerings , and employers are increasingly aware of and accepting of these educational options.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 12, 2020

According to the latest tracking data from the Chronicle of Higher Education, two-year colleges are significantly more likely than other institution types to be planning for a primarily or fully online fall semester. Department of Education data. The Colorado Community College System was an early pioneer in offering digital badges.

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Edsurge

MARCH 25, 2021

IBM runs a digital badging program , now in its seventh year, that has awarded 3.7 Unfortunately, basic data on how many companies and organizations are issuing credentials to the public is not available—and virtually no research has focused on this topic. And we should ask what the U.S.

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Educational Technology Guy

AUGUST 29, 2019

From there, educators can manage students and bots, access standards-aligned lesson recommendations, assign activities and digital badges, and use real-time insights into students’ online and offline activity to inform their teaching strategies.

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Digital Promise

APRIL 8, 2016

Enter micro-credentials : competency-based recognition for educator learning that is supported by digital badges. 2 – The rise of digital badging. Although competency-based learning and assessment has a long history, a workable technical solution to support this system — digital badges — is relatively new.

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Digital Promise

DECEMBER 22, 2014

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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eSchool News

OCTOBER 3, 2016

For example, dispositions like humility, independence, and persistence were proposed alongside more traditional science-based practices in NGSS like analyzing data or engaging in argument. Next page: A unique badging model engages students. So, how do we do it? Collaborating with partners.

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edWeb.net

OCTOBER 1, 2019

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. Many times, though, the problem is also a communication gap.

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The CoolCatTeacher

OCTOBER 11, 2017

How cool would it be for kids to have digital badges, the same way that we have (some) that are attached to our e-mails and things like that, for when we achieve our Google Certified Educators and things like that. I went on the hunt, and I created – just using Google Drawings and Canva – these #MakingGoogleMaster badges.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 5, 2021

But the dichotomy is increasingly a false one, as a more flexible and convenient approach gains steam.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

Crunching Credentials Data Why expend all this effort researching credentials? Yet the data available on non-degree programs is scant. Department of Labor Registered Apprenticeship Partners Information Data System or State Wage Interchange System, according to NSC.

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Edsurge

JULY 14, 2018

Today, Google Maps is an open ecosystem for accurate, real-time geospatial and navigation data. To bridge the gulf, it will take a similar open-data ecosystem to support learner navigation. This data must be in a machine-readable format and interoperable to work in all apps and systems.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

Digital badges, microcredentials and digital credentials… What sets them apart, or are they synonymous? Digital credentialing is an electronic means of transferring data about an individual’s accomplishments, resulting in a PDF, image or other digital learning record. This adds value to the credential.

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Edsurge

JUNE 19, 2020

This is already evident in the latest national job-market data, which shows a 15 percent unemployment rate for high school graduates with no college and 13 percent for those with some college or an associate degree—compared to 7 percent for individuals with a bachelor’s or higher.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 30, 2018

Department of Education data, out of the thousands of institutions operating online programs, the 100 colleges and universities with the greatest online enrollment accounted for 47 percent of all online students in 2016, up from a 43 percent share in 2012. According to U.S.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

Next for the newly joined company is expanding the network of issuers who receive and send credentials including transcripts, diplomas, certificates and digital badges, says Parchment CEO Matthew Pittinsky, who will lead the new company. National Student Clearinghouse, based in Herndon, Va.,

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TeachThought - Learn better.

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

The Viability Of Alternatives To Report Cards To be realistic, many of the following alternatives to report cards may not be practical for most teachers: they may require too much time, data, or buy-in from colleagues, administrators, and parents. Digital badges recognize and validate students’ skills and achievements in specific areas.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

The boom in short-form digital learning in the workplace doesn’t mean that classroom-based corporate training or more structured on-the-job learning is going away. But it does mean that the expectations of employers and workers are shifting, and that data and algorithms are driving and measuring what workers have learned.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

PLC, Data, or Team meetings). MobileMind delivers anytime, anywhere access to personalized micro-courses, activity-based learning, digital badging, and reporting to K-12 school districts. Districts can create single-session events like workshops, as well as conference-style PD days that consist of multiple days and/or sessions.

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Teacher Reboot Camp

FEBRUARY 2, 2016

With so much standardized testing and stress on data, play is being taken away. Give them digital badges for completing these challenges. In Chapter 26, Goal: Encourage Play, of The 30 Goals for Teachers , I talk about the importance of play for our learning, development, creativity, and mental wellness.

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Edsurge

MARCH 9, 2020

Future features on the product roadmap include digital badges and reports on children’s behavior measured by the app. Is Data-Driven Parenting a Good Idea? Data-driven parenting, to Holden, “is as complicated or as easy as you want it to be.”. Rajendran, 43, and Xavier, 41, met at PayPal and founded S’moresUp in 2017.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 10, 2018

He pointed out that anyone may put false information—like a degree or digital badge—on their LinkedIn profile. She added that “clever cryptography” can hide certain data on the blockchain—so the data isn’t necessarily forgotten, but hidden from the world together. Krishnan said she thinks students are keen on the idea.

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Digital Promise

FEBRUARY 22, 2016

Micro-credentials, which provide recognition for these concrete competencies in the form of digital badges, could help facilitate this shift. Imagine a world where an educator who spent years learning the nuances of data literacy could clearly signal that expertise to their colleagues, employers, and others.

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Digital Promise

FEBRUARY 22, 2016

Micro-credentials, which provide recognition for these concrete competencies in the form of digital badges, could help facilitate this shift. Imagine a world where an educator who spent years learning the nuances of data literacy could clearly signal that expertise to their colleagues, employers, and others.

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Shake Up Learning

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

TIME TO COMPLETE: 45—90 minutes DIGITAL TOOLS: Search, Slides SKILLS Collaboration Communication Digital collaboration Effective communication File sharing Identify relevant data Internet search Iterative development Presentation formatting Slide design 4.

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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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Edsurge

OCTOBER 31, 2019

At a recent design session hosted by Education Design Lab , Concentric Sky and Arizona State University , I was impressed by how far the thinking and experimentation have come around infrastructure and data standards for microcredentials, yet how little we still understand about the needs and desires of end-users.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 16, 2018

Morrison felt, “the issue with working together right now is that we're all putting our own 'spin' on CBE which makes it hard to aggregate data across institutions.” As Bill Weber posited, “Data analytics is another piece of the pie that I’m not sure most institutions are ready to cooperate on.”

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 23, 2017

To tackle this major problem, Digital Promise , a nonprofit founded in 2008 with authorization from Congress, has been steadfastly working on a framework for “ micro-credentials.” These digital badges aim to signal that teachers can perform or demonstrate the skill for which they were awarded. districts, according to Kenyon.

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