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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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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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How to Create a Click and Learn Digital Calendar

Teacher Reboot Camp

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. Simply attached the mission card and badges from the book to each day.

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Beyond Badges: Why Personalized Learning Advocates Need to Care about Blockchain

Doug Levin

While digital badging and its underlying technical approach points a way forward to solving some of the issues associated with a ‘distributed proof of learning’ system, there has emerged another approach that might hold even more promise: blockchain technology.

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31 Days of Digital Goodies

Teacher Reboot Camp

Mission & digital badge calendar - add a learning mission for students to accomplish each day and have a digital badge they will receive if they succeed. Find a video about this here and the slides, Meaningful Learning with Missions and Badges. Subscribe for FREE to receive regular updates!

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Balancing Act: Cybersecurity in the Connected Classroom

EdTech Magazine

BECOME AN INSIDER: Sign up access to exclusive EdTech videos, whitepapers and articles. 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.

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5 Key Areas of Technology Professional Development for Teachers

EdTech Magazine

“Our eighth grade team is our most reluctant team, and two members [who attended the PD on digital badging] took it back to their team at the end of the day and they’ve now implemented digital badges for vocabulary, which is a campuswide focus,” said one DLP coach.