eSchool News

AUGUST 31, 2017

Digital badging has arrived on the scene as a leading contender to close this gap and help provide teachers with a clear path to professional growth, and the micro-credentials to prove it. Moving beyond the traditional credit-hour model of professional development to a competency-based system is another benefit of badge systems.

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Digital Promise

MARCH 16, 2015

In the previous post, we discussed building authentic cultures of professional learning. Today, we explore one of the design principles at the heart of micro-credentials – embracing learning as continuous process. This is where continuous learning can really shine. And so goes on the journey of continuous learning.

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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. Acknowledging the informal learning of educators had been a long- neglected area in schools, and Ms. Fleming felt she could make a big impact there.

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edWeb.net

JUNE 8, 2021

According to experts from the edWebinar, “ The Transformation and Funding of PreK-12 Professional Learning in the COVID Era,” sponsored by Simba Information, a business of Market Research.com, research shows that recent trends in professional learning are here to stay. How Vendors Can Help.

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Digital Promise

APRIL 8, 2016

Studies suggest American schools invest $18 billion in teachers’ professional learning annually. But considerable evidence indicates that formal professional development often misses the mark. And while teachers are also learning in informal ways, existing systems don’t track or make the most of that growth. .

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Edsurge

JUNE 19, 2020

It is still early in the adoption of these digital hiring practices—and how employers deploy them is still very much a “black box.” As those hiring methods go digital, they could speed adoption of new kinds of microcredentials and digital badges designed to show employers the fine-grained skills achieved during educational programs.

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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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More Verbs

OCTOBER 19, 2015

15, by ACTEM and the Maine’s Learning Through Technology Team. What if schools and teachers had support for professional learning that met their needs and was on their own terms? ” iLearnMaine represents the first state initiative to use micro-credentials as a systemic approach to supporting educators.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

Digital badges, microcredentials and digital credentials… What sets them apart, or are they synonymous? Yet, there is clear value in digital credentials within higher education and job-embedded professional learning. What are the advantages for learners to use digital credentialing?

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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. In fact, I see the systems as complementary. But in the world of micro-credentials, the earner could have done their learning anywhere!

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Ask a Tech Teacher

FEBRUARY 12, 2018

Micro-credentials enable educators to better meet the needs of increasingly diverse student populations and school districts who want to shift professional learning from broad topics to competency, from seat-time to knowledge, from sporadic seminars to acknowledgment that teachers are life-long learners. Not anymore. personalized.

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The Shake Up Learning Blog

OCTOBER 25, 2022

This powerful tool can provide a space for teacher-to-teacher collaboration, professional learning and support, parent communication, and even special projects and enrichment classes for students. It’s not a perfect system, but keep in mind that it was designed to protect students and your Google accounts. Badging Systems.

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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. In fact, I see the systems as complementary. But in the world of micro-credentials, the earner could have done their learning anywhere!

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edWeb.net

AUGUST 7, 2019

Now, organizations like Digital Promise have developed micro-credential programs, which recognize educators for acquiring new skills. The goal of micro-credentials, according to Younge, is to capture the educator demonstrating these skills and provide their schools with evidence of the professional learning. About the Host.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 21, 2018

How can we best harness the positive aspects of technology to improve student learning and the schools we work in? As a first step, we need to disrupt the status quo that’s embedded in the education system by developing new ways of looking at things that transform the world.

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techlearning

AUGUST 6, 2018

If we have heard it said once, we have heard it said 1,000 times: Professional Development is Broken For every time we have heard that said, we have also heard suggestions on how to fix it. Schools want their educators to learn and grow, but in practice, professional development is innately broken, or even in some situations, nonexistent.

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eSchool News

JUNE 23, 2021

June 21, 2021) MobileMind , the modern professional learning hub for schools, is now a certified ClassLink partner, a leader in cloud-based education products, including single sign-on and streamlined class rostering. ClassLink empowers 14 million students and staff in over 1,800 school systems. Atlanta, Ga.

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Edthena

MARCH 30, 2021

Micro-credentials are an emerging method for helping teachers document their professional learning. They offer districts an innovative way to document teachers’ skills while allowing the teachers to share their progress with others via a digital badge. Now these barriers are eliminated.

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Shake Up Learning

MAY 2, 2017

It’s not a perfect system, but keep in mind that it was designed to protect students and your G Suite for Education accounts. Badging Systems. Digital Badging as become a fun way for teachers and students to show off their accomplishments. Use #GoogleClassroom for Badging! Online Professional Learning.

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edWeb.net

APRIL 5, 2022

Recruiting people to participate in the learning community as a result of not having sufficient time to thoroughly research the target population’s unique needs and not effectively demystifying microlearning as an innovative, well-rounded way to build competencies and reach mastery. The Impact: A Testimonial. Do micro-credentials work?

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edWeb.net

APRIL 23, 2020

Kelley is superintendent of Oak Park Elementary School District 97, a PreK–8 public school system in Oak Park, IL, with 6,150 students. Dr. Kelley is deeply committed to addressing historical disparities in school systems and realizing a compelling vision of educational equity for every student. Dr. Carol L. About the Host.

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MindShift

FEBRUARY 15, 2017

While educators around the country are slowly adopting various approaches that allow them to better differentiate learning for students, the same is rarely true for the adult learners in the system. Superintendent Deklotz says being a reviewer is great professional learning in and of itself.

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edWeb.net

JUNE 4, 2019

Total cost of ownership: First, administrators need to look at the expenses from a systemic view. Are they prepared to adapt to other systems? He has presented regionally, statewide and nationally on topics that have a foundation in professional learning communities and innovative schools. Join the Community.

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EdTechTeacher

MARCH 6, 2015

” Excuses and opinions will not do anything to change systems. Question: why are we perpetuating an out of date system? Students walk into school and suddenly feel a disconnect: Learning is confined to a schedule and a chair. The system is about a 1-size fits all approach. Professional Learning.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

JANUARY 7, 2019

The Global Leadership Summit will provide participants with the unique opportunity to: Develop the capacity to lead classrooms and educational systems that foster in students the will and the skill to tackle problems of real-world significance locally and globally.

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A Principal's Reflections

FEBRUARY 19, 2017

Planning professional learning – How many of us dreaded professional development (PD) days? They should also have choice over resources that they, the experts who work with students the most on a day to day basis, feel are valuable to support and enhance learning.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 17, 2017

Demanding that schools teach “the right skills” is also one of many examples of an ongoing “innovation” fixation , of how industry is pressing the education system to bend to its needs. MIT will issue digital diplomas on the blockchain. In other badging news, Salesforce received a patent for badges.

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Hack Education

JULY 1, 2016

Via Inside Higher Ed : “ Excelsior College and publisher Cengage Learning on Tuesday said they would partner to create self-paced online degree programs to give students an alternative pathway to college credit.” Conference of Mayors Resolves to Support Digital Badging ,” says Edsurge. ” “U.S.

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