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primarily for ABE/GED/ESOL teachers, but useful for anyone wanting to integrate technology
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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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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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How do you motivate students who don't care about grades? You take a turn with badges in education and see how different results can come about.
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Through the final weeks of my Harvard MOOC experience, I learned a few things about setting rigorous expectation in a course, the value of competency-based grading (or “badges,” to fit the trending lingo), and how to plan for a final project that ...
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How do you motivate students who don't care about grades? You take a turn with badges in education and see how different results can come about.
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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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A free tool for designing badges, avatars and banners for schools. Provided by Makewaves the safe social learning platform for education
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Last week, a school in Calgary announced the elimination of certificates and ceremonies honoring academic and athletic achievement. The school board's rationale addresses issues around internal vs....
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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.
Patty Ball's insight:
starting to get interested in the possibilitie of digital badges. Could they work in Adult Basic Literacy courses?
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