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Personalized Learning
Building Micro-credential Momentum
Now that a growing number of organizations are creating and offering micro-credentials, the new challenge is to make them more valuable to educators by increasing the number of states, districts, and networks that recognize them as signals of professional growth.
Leadership
Moving PD from Seat-Time to Demonstrated Competency Using Micro-credentials
Micro-credentials are a digital form of certification that indicate when a person has demonstrated competency in a specific skill set. This resource produced by Getting Smart in partnership with BloomBoard, is the essential educators’ guide to implementing powerful professional learning with micro-credentials.
EdTech
What You Need to Know When Developing Micro-Credentials
With over 300 submissions from teachers during the implementation this fall, the Friday Institute has learned many lessons that provide insight for those considering or developing micro-credentials.
Ed Policy
White House Hosts Summit on Next Generation High Schools
Details from the first ever White House Summit on #NextGenHS that brought together innovative educators. During the summit, leaders convened to catalyze innovative thinking around opportunities to enhance and improve high school education and create more equity within education.
EdTech
Micro-credentials for Personalized, Powerful Professional Learning
A new report from Digital Promise further explores the potential of micro-credentials for educators. Digital Promise released Making Professional Learning Count: Recognizing Educators’ Skills with Micro-credentials -- a report that shares the results of a survey of teachers on their views on professional development and micro-credentials.
Leadership
A Next-Gen School for Every Child
By: Sarah Luchs. At NGLC, we view technology as a valuable tool to support personalized learning at scale. Our motto is: lead with the learning. Because, in a next-gen learning ecosystem, every person, from child to adult, is a learner. We can have a next-gen school for every child.
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Micro-Credentials: The Future of Professional Learning
Like students, educators deserve a clear map of what they need to know and be able to do, multiple ways to learn, and options for demonstrating mastery. In most cases we think progress will be marked with a stackable series of micro-credentials.
Personalized Learning
How to Innovate: Combine New Tools & New Schools
The most important K-12 innovation of the last twenty years has been new school development. The most important development of the last five years has been new tools. So, how can we evaluate this progress? We compare recent technology development against school model development.
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Empowering Global Educators Through Digital Badges
By: Julie Keane & Chelsea Waite. Digital badges and micro-credentials connect and empower educators. This article discusses both the benefits of badging and micro-credentialing as well as what is next in the field for global educators.
Personalized Learning
6 Categories of Deeper Learning Skills for Education Leaders
By: Karen Cator. It's essential for education leaders at all levels to understand, articulate and model deeper learning skills. The role that micro-credentials play when it comes to teacher expertise in deeper learning skills and ways education leaders can develop their skills in six different areas.