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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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31 Days of Digital Goodies

Teacher Reboot Camp

One way to engage students is to create interactive digital calendars. December is the month for advent calendars, so I’ve created the Digital Ideas 2014 Advent Calendar to give you a hands-on example of how this works. Find a video about this here and the slides, Meaningful Learning with Missions and Badges.

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5 Key Areas of Technology Professional Development for Teachers

EdTech Magazine

DLP uses five key points to guide teachers and coaches through the professional-development curriculum: Content Focus: When providing technology coaching, concrete examples are key. Now the entire eighth grade is doing vocabulary in their homeroom with digital badges, from a 25-minute presentation.” . .

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Game On: Teachers Should Continue to Gamify Classrooms

EdTech Magazine

For example, students can see what elements make up a grass block or use helium to make pigs fly, a “Minecraft” blog reported. Finally, microcredentials or digital badging are another terrific way to make learning more fun. Digital badging is a tool used in professional development to give teachers tangible goals.

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How Microcredentials Help Educators Develop New Tech Skills

EdTech Magazine

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. SIGN UP: Get more news from the EdTech newsletter in your inbox every two weeks! Open New Doors for Teachers in the Classroom.

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A Process for Implementing Student Digital Projects

Teacher Reboot Camp

Note that before implementing the process, I already know what digital product I want students to create (timeline, infographic, video, etc.) Evaluate an Example. The first step is to evaluate examples that are age and topic appropriate. Students work in pairs or small groups to create a list of what makes the example awesome.