The Hechinger Report

APRIL 1, 2024

Yet despite some efforts to document the experiences and outcomes of multilingual learners in the district, a legal monitor noted last year that Boston’s school leaders had defied requests for records showing how it spent its funds. At the close of 2023, 75 Rhode Island educators were enrolled in the new and cutting-edge program.

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Digital Badges Learning Training Report 101

Edsurge

AUGUST 12, 2020

There’s an opportunity to create new types of sub-baccalaureate credentials—many of which have historically had a mixed record in terms of outcomes but hold great promise. IBM and Wake Technical Community College in North Carolina have partnered to jointly offer a digital badge on blockchain technology.

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Digital Badges MOOC Trends Industry 210

Edsurge

DECEMBER 26, 2019

Digital badges. Three types of edtech joined the “filmstrip” category in this decade: Learning Management Systems , MOOC s, and digital badges. They are a perfect example of what you get when you simply transfer analog practice to digital form and don’t make use of the advantages of the new medium. underwhelming.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 19, 2021

This really is a bridge that helps a candidate—a learner, an apprentice—achieve both outcomes,” says Kelli Jordan, director of IBM career, skills and performance. “It The council will keep track of the credits that apprentices earn through Credly, a digital badge platform.

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eSchool News

JUNE 28, 2021

MobileMind is a Google professional development partner offering a cloud-based, asynchronous professional learning platform designed to help teachers integrate technology into the classroom to improve student outcomes.

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Neo LMS

DECEMBER 12, 2017

Many teachers are also quick to point out that teacher outcomes are improved when districts place as much attention on salaries, infrastructure and improving the “school climate” as they do on PD — which I’m sure every teacher would agree is a fair point. The outcome is usually a PD learning portfolio that excites and empowers.

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Digital Badges Outcomes Course Trends 151

Digital Promise

APRIL 17, 2019

This network helps us organize and maximize resources to advance student outcomes. Using available micro-credentials from Digital Promise, each educator can create a personalized professional development plan that builds on the expertise they feel they most need in the classroom and in our schools.

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Digital Badges Professional Learning Data Elementary 217

A Principal's Reflections

MAY 20, 2014

This year alone Laura Fleming , our stellar media specialist, has successfully created a Makerspace for our students as well as a digital badge platform to acknowledge the informal learning of teachers. Both of these initiatives have exceeded our expectations and have been met by rave reviews from staff and students alike.

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Digital Badges Learning Libraries Outcomes 281

A Principal's Reflections

FEBRUARY 19, 2017

Empowerment and ownership need and should be associated with learning to increase relevancy, value, meaning, and outcomes. There is a great deal of talk and focus on the need to improve student agency in our schools and rightfully so (see my post on this topic HERE ).

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Advocacy Digital Badges Education Meeting 181

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

Its answer: one that offers evidence of competencies and corresponds clearly with positive employment outcomes in fields that have substantial job opportunities. The report breaks this down into more detail, calling for credentials associated with evidence of “substantial job opportunities” and employment and earnings outcomes.

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Secondary Digital Badges MOOC Training 105

A Principal's Reflections

JUNE 8, 2014

These indicators have become so embedded in the minds of those judging our schools and work that we, like everyone else, worked hard to focus only on initiatives that would hopefully produce favorable outcomes in those areas. Change Digital Leadership educational leadership Innovation New Milford High School Opinion'

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Khan Academy BYOD Digital Badges Social Media 360

Shake Up Learning

MARCH 8, 2022

They are growing a collection of high-quality resources with clear learning outcomes, teacher lesson plans, and student resources. When our students can see themselves in the content it leads to greater student engagement and better learning outcomes. How do I get started with OER? This can be inspiring to students as well. .

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OER Resources Common Core Digital Badges 93

Edsurge

AUGUST 16, 2018

Regardless of the delivery, it’s the outcome that learners need to demonstrate. Many #DLNchat -ters agreed that digital portfolios were one way to show skill mastery, but needed to go further. Keith Bevacqua shared this idea: “Perhaps by archiving full work sets after a course, not just providing a digital badge.

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Digital Badges Education Secondary Assessment 69

Edsurge

DECEMBER 30, 2019

Now, educators are focused on linking edtech tools directly to student learning outcomes. Open digital badges. But we’ve learned technology alone does not drive higher achievement. Technology must support and empower better teaching and learning. What technology never lived up to expectations or the hype?

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EdTech iPad Chromebook Industry 164

Educator Innovator

MARCH 25, 2015

Mozilla has recently kicked off two exciting new planning projects to help in- and out-of-school educators identify and teach digital-age skills, and to prototype badges with clear learning and achievement outcomes related to those skills.

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Digital Badges Competency Based Learning Education Industry 33

eSchool News

AUGUST 3, 2016

Learners, beginning in high school, will be able to track their academic and professional achievements and own their portfolio collections of learning, training, mentorship and digital credentialing. In addition to portfolios, MyMantl will offer digital badging tools, competency-based education program designers and job tools.

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Trends Digital Badges Blended Learning Learning Analytics 40

EdTechTeam

APRIL 6, 2017

From digital doodles in apps like Procreate and Paper53 to sticky notes and notebook paper -- sketchers young and old are finding their #sketch50 entrypoint. Another exciting and unexpected outcome of this viral movement has been the interest of select professional artists and authors to share and inspire #Sketch50 in their own way.

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Digital Badges Social Media EdTech Twitter 41

eSpark

JUNE 28, 2016

We’ve known for decades that differentiating content for students based on their level of performance has a massive impact on academic outcomes. Recently, microcredentials and digital badges have entered onto the professional learning scene.

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Digital Badges Professional Learning Differentiated Instruction Blended Learning 53

eSpark

JUNE 28, 2016

We’ve known for decades that differentiating content for students based on their level of performance has a massive impact on academic outcomes. Recently, microcredentials and digital badges have entered onto the professional learning scene. Read on for three ways that districts can rethink professional learning.

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Digital Badges Professional Learning Differentiated Instruction Blended Learning 52

Edsurge

JANUARY 30, 2020

Non-Degree Microcredentials as Pathways to Lifelong Learning and Degrees From digital badges and nanodegrees, to MicroMasters and new types of certificates, there’s an explosion of professionally-oriented microcredential offerings , and employers are increasingly aware of and accepting of these educational options.

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Digital Badges Coursera Learning Industry 187

Educator Innovator

MARCH 6, 2015

With a grant from the Philadelphia Youth Network , the Free Library of Philadelphia hired 70 recent high school graduates as “teen badging specialists.” If you haven’t heard, badges are a new type of digital credential students can earn to show off their skills in a type of online profile.).

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Libraries Digital Badges Video Outcomes 33

EdTechTeacher

MARCH 6, 2015

However, technology is a tool and not a learning outcome. Their librarian even created a Digital Badge program to award teachers for their efforts and to add to their digital portfolios. Digital Leadership is about telling your story better than anyone else. .” – Ignacio Estrada.

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Social Media Learning Digital Badges BYOD 60

Educator Innovator

JUNE 23, 2014

But as Cavalier says, if given the right mechanism, these communities could “self-pollinate” in productive ways, allowing people to gauge the effect of multidisciplinary learning or consider broader outcomes as measures of engagement.

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Education Learning Data Digital Badges 51

eSchool News

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

MobileMind is a Google professional development partner offering a cloud-based, asynchronous professional learning platform designed to help teachers integrate technology into the classroom to improve student outcomes.

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Digital Badges Professional Learning Training Outcomes 93

MindShift

JUNE 29, 2015

They see worldwide educators focusing on “ deeper learning ” outcomes that try to connect what happens in the classroom to experts and experiences beyond school as an important trend. Badges and Wearables: On the long-term horizon, experts see digital badges and wearable technology as important technology developments in four to five years.

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Technology Maker Movement Trends Khan Academy 28

eSchool News

JUNE 23, 2021

The seamless integration satisfies both of the companies’ goals, which is to empower educators through easily accessible technology to ensure positive student outcomes. MobileMind delivers anytime, anywhere access to personalized micro-courses, activity-based learning, digital badging, and reporting to K-12 school districts.

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Digital Badges Outcomes Professional Learning Company 52

edWeb.net

JUNE 4, 2019

Using CoSN’s blueprint for smart IT decisions as a guideline, the three superintendents explained how to align priorities, and balance choice with cost and outcomes to creative sustainable programs. The district was one of three schools recognized nationally by ISTE for its digital badge program.

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EdTech Digital Badges Software Outcomes 54

TeachThought - Learn better.

JUNE 7, 2015

In a learning ecology–as we use them now–digital badges usually cause little excitement and mean nothing. curriculum maps and pacing guides created from a universal set of standards) to turning inward and learning to ask questions that sustain learning isn’t simply a matter of process, but purpose and human outcome.

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How To Gamification Learning Digital Badges 40

A Principal's Reflections

OCTOBER 4, 2015

The book focuses on the following innovative practices: Digital learning across the curriculum : Today’s learner yearns to use real-world tools to do real-world work. Effective digital learning environments focus on learning outcomes as opposed to the tools themselves.

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Digital Badges Learning BYOD Flipped Classroom 150

Fractus Learning

APRIL 6, 2016

Technology is a tool to enhance learning outcomes, and when used appropriately, it is not the tool that matters, but the learning and experiences we can provide for our students that matter most. Digital Badges and Micro-credentials. Pedagogy always trumps technology” (Sheninger, 43).

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Digital Badges BYOD Learning Maker Movement 40

Fractus Learning

APRIL 6, 2016

Technology is a tool to enhance learning outcomes, and when used appropriately, it is not the tool that matters, but the learning and experiences we can provide for our students that matter most. Digital Badges and Micro-credentials. Pedagogy always trumps technology” (Sheninger, 43).

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Digital Badges BYOD Learning Maker Movement 40

Edsurge

JUNE 12, 2018

Looking around at the various “disruptive” forces in higher education—digital badging, MOOCs, competency-based education, online education, and so on—what if universities stopped fretting about or dismissing these, and instead developed their own skunkworks to get out in front of those ideas and do them right and avoid being disrupted?

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Steelcase Company Learning Digital Badges 89

Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

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. Wedge Tailed Green Pigeon. The Teacher Influencer Hustle. Among Neurocore’s investors: Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos.

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Pearson MOOC Company Software 145

Edsurge

AUGUST 17, 2018

But higher education’s more recent, concerted push toward a focus on student outcomes and completion was really just beginning. States have moved to strengthen performance-based funding models and reward institutions for the student outcomes they produce, instead of simply enrollment.

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Outcomes Policies Student Data Privacy Digital Badges 98

Hack Education

OCTOBER 26, 2018

Via Inside Higher Ed : “ For-Profit College Attendance Linked to Poor Financial Outcomes.” SNHU and LRNG are merging “to Create ‘ WeWork for Education ’ Via Digital Badges and Mini-Campuses.” .” Via The Outline : “The nation’s student loan debt crisis , mapped.”

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Education Khan Academy Company MOOC 60