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primarily for ABE/GED/ESOL teachers, but useful for anyone wanting to integrate technology
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Gold stars, Girl Scout badges, and Boy Scout badges—when we think about motivating our students to assist them in their learning and development, using badges in the classroom have a similar function as many of the rewards we were offered as young learners in primary schools (Ash, 2012). As a motivational tool, badges can be added to your college classroom using a fairly streamlined process, and with little or no cost to you at an individual level, or at an institutional level.
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Professional development badges are how this course is self-paced. The course is made up of modules where you have the option of earning badges for completion of certain activities. NOTE:...
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Have you heard of badges? No, I don’t mean those that are worn by police or military officials, or even merit badges collected by boy/girl scouts and displayed so proudly on the child's uniform, th...
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Digital badges, icons that represent academic achievements or skills smaller than a college degree, are an increasingly popular way for universities to acknowledge the breadth of student learning.
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Digital badges are a powerful way to document and share professional learning and collaboration experiences. Connected Educator Month this year provides educators with the opportunity to earn badges. This document answers frequently asked questions about why and how you can take advantage of that opportunity. (For a general introduction to digital badges, we recommend starting with the Mozilla Open Badges project’s Badges 101 Quiz.) Why should I bother earning badges? What kinds of badges can I earn? How do I earn a badge? How do I share the badges I've earned with others? Why should I encourage educators in my state or district to earn badges? Why should I bother earning badges? Educators are busy, and not everyone gets excited about earning badges for their own sake. Here are a couple of reasons you might want to earn badges during Connected Educator Month: Your badges can provide … More
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Initiatives seek to give students permanent online records for skills they have developed that they could then use when applying to college or for jobs.
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starting to get interested in the possibilitie of digital badges. Could they work in Adult Basic Literacy courses?
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As a member of the Austin, Texas, class of the Google Teacher Academy, I've been fortunate to be exposed to some great professional learning already. The academy starts in just over two weeks, but ...
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Udacity announces nanodegrees: compact, flexible and job-focused credentials that are stackable throughout your career.
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similar to digital badges
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As an effective learning tool, gamification in the classroom comes with a system of validation. GUEST COLUMN | by Kanista Zuniga and Michelle Macumber In an age of gamification, kids are learning f...
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Digital badges appear to becoming the next, "new" thing in education. What follows is a description of digital badges as described by Digital Media and Learning: A digital badge is an online record...
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Although I love the freedom, flexibility and personalization of informal learning with my PLN on social media, I always felt that there should be a system for acknowledging that learning. Badging for professional learning, now, seems an obvious solution. Badging itself has a long, rich history, eve
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Charting the PD Waters With BadgesHow one educator built her own badging system, transforming PD at her school and beyond
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How do we recognize and value the way we learn today? Badges are a new idea to recognize the learning that happens anywhere and share it in the places that m...
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