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Using Micro-credentials for Personalized Professional Development

Digital Promise

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. Personalized PD strengthens both individual and group skills.

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What Problems Has Edtech Solved, and What New Ones Did It Create?

Edsurge

Coupled with a focus on real-time data collection and analysis to inform both back office and classroom decisionmaking, the reliance on edtech in schools has led to increasingly severe data breaches, expensive and embarrassing disruptions to school operations, and the loss of millions of taxpayer dollars. Open digital badges.

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The Power of Positive Climate and Culture

EdTechTeam

As a coach assisting teachers with technology integration and personalized learning, I notice patterns arising from teacher to teacher. The importance of climate and culture in a classroom and across a school are imperative to successful technology integration, personalized learning, and empowered learning.

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Support English Learners with Micro-credentials from Digital Promise

Ask a Tech Teacher

Digital devices, be they iPads, laptops, Chromebooks, Macs, or PCs, give students access to endless amounts of web-based resources for research, inquiry, collaboration, sharing, and more. They offer over three hundred micro-credentials addressing all levels of personal learning (more on that later). Click to view slideshow.

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WHAT’S NEW

techlearning

CHALK AND WIRE MYMANTL ( www.mymantl.com ) Chalk & Wire announced that its learning recognition network, MyMantl, is now fully available for students, educators, employees and employers. to streamline workflows for assessment and data analysis. The course takes students up to four hours and can be completed over several weeks.

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

Hack Education

In 2018, Mozilla said it would retire Backpack, its platform for sharing and displaying badges, and would help users move their badges to Badgr, software developed by the tech company Concentric Sky. Personalized Learning" Software (and Facebook and Summit Public Schools). Wedge Tailed Green Pigeon. They want the bundle.

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