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Integration of Digital Badges to Acknowledge Professional Learning

A Principal's Reflections

As a 21st Century Library Media Specialist, part of what I strive to do is to serve as an instructional technology resource for both educators and learners. ?In I am proud to announce Worlds of Learning @ New Milford High School , a digital badge professional learning platform.

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Game On: Teachers Should Continue to Gamify Classrooms

EdTech Magazine

Get Your Gamification On. Several years ago, gamification was an emerging trend and even named one of the Horizon Report’s Top 10 things driving educational change. Break Out of the Digital Mold. Of course, you don’t need an actual game or app to use elements of gamification in the classroom. by Joe McAllister.

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Digital Badges: A Simple Way to Motivate

Class Tech Integrate

Digital Badges have started to become a big deal in the everyday classroom. Why do students care about badges? In all of the video games and apps that your students are playing, they earn badges. In a way, you can think of them as the new paper certificate. The answer is Gameification.

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New Ways to Gamify Learning

Ask a Tech Teacher

But those webtools exemplify where the gamification of education started. Let me step back a moment to explain the SAMR Model as it applies to the use of technology in education. Modification: Technology allows for a significant change, e.g. using screencasts to explain a process.

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Digital Badges: A Simple Way to Motivate

Class Tech Integrate

Digital Badges have started to become a big deal in the everyday classroom. Why do students care about badges? In all of the video games and apps that your students are playing, they earn badges. In a way, you can think of them as the new paper certificate. The answer is Gameification.

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One Year Later: 2nd Cohort of New Innovators Finish Their Yearlong Cohort

EdTechTeam

My entire career, I've been on an "island" or worked in districts with closed mindsets when it comes to teaching with technology. Things like kindness, empathy, tenacity and creativity can now be acknowledged, celebrated and captured using a digital badge! Are educators prepared to design instruction for digital classrooms?

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5 Reasons to Use Digital Badges in Your Classroom

Fractus Learning

Digital badges do just that: they show when students have learned a skill or met a goal. For teachers, badges make classroom goals visible to students. The value of digital badges goes beyond the classroom, as well. Students use badges that they have earned to get scholarships, enter graduate school, and get jobs.