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Open Badges in Professional Development: A Framework

An Open Badge is a digital representation of a skill or achievement earned from a creditable organization. This session presents a framework for how school districts can leverage open badges to encourage and reward professional growth through non-traditional…

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Badges: A New Measure of Professional Development

Some higher ed institutions are experimenting with digital badges as a way to encourage and document learning among faculty and staff. Badges are quickly becoming acceptable currency in the world of higher education. Purdue University, for example, known for…

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What Teachers Want More than New Technologies? PD Opportunities To Learn to Use them Effectively – EdTechReview™ (ETR)

Without professional development that can give teachers the full practical knowledge on the use of technology, you will not see technology being successfully integrated in the classrooms for better learning.

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This Is The World Teachers Must Adapt To: 7 Ways Teaching Has Changed

See on Scoop.it – Blended Learning Lab Teachers are the arbitrators of knowledge and culture. Knowledge and culture are each dynamic, endlessly crashing and churning. This makes teaching significantly important and difficult work, and can leave teaching—as a…

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Digital school strategies

See on Scoop.it – EdTech 2.0 What are the biggest tech-related challenges facing schools? It’s about encouraging reluctant teachers to adopt, embed and apply new technology effectively within authentic teaching and learning contexts. We also need better in-service…

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The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Teachers Who Use Technology

See on Scoop.it – Blended Learning Lab daily edventures | The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Teachers Who Use Technology See on dailyedventures.com

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5 Tips to Help Teachers Who Struggle with Technology

See on Scoop.it – Blended Learning Lab “I’m not very tech savvy” is the response I usually hear from teachers that struggle with technology. Whether it’s attaching a document to an email or creating a PowerPoint, some teachers…

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