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digital badges have become an important way to demonstrate a shared understanding of accomplished outcomes.

3.–Create a badge. It is important to remember that digital badges are a way to visually represent quality and valuable learning. You can begin your badge creation with the following series of questions: * Have you explored existing badges? Is there someone who has already done the work you are trying to do so that you could simply adapt and become part of a community rather than reinventing the wheel? * What are you assessing? Will your digital badges align with particular standards and competencies? If so, this should be specifically addressed so learners know their learning objectives. This could also help make the badge more meaningful to the learner. * How will you earn the badge? What are the criteria, artifacts, or work samples that will be produced in order to earn the badge? * What are the specific steps learners would take as they create their work? How long do you anticipate that it will take for someone to complete the badge? * How will you assess the work? Will you design and implement rubrics? * Will this be a series of badges? If so, how do the badges build upon one another? Is there a particular order in which the badges should be earned?

teachers should begin considering how they could become producers of badges. One goal of this work is for teachers to consider how they could translate content and skills to badges as alternative forms of assessment for students.

e socially and academically integrated in order to provide meaningful learning experiences

“relationships with cohorts”

hat interaction between peers is important to online students and suggests that “the psychological presence of peer students can also bring a positive effect on various aspects of distance learning”

be judged by the quality of your writing.

ecking your facts

clear and logical.

Access to education should not mean merely access to content

instructor skill in creating and managing interaction in online courses

rather, it should mean access to a rich learning environment that provides opportunity for interaction and connectedness

partly in an effort to reduce variance between states and to raise the consistency and quality of accountability measures of teachers, schools, and districts

nteraction between learner and learner isessential in distance education if participationin class discussions is to take place

Higher motivation—When students feel rapport with their teachers and feel that their teacher’s personalities are something like their own, motivation is higher.

Higher motivation—When students feel rapport with their teachers and feel that their teacher’s personalities are something like their own, motivation is higher.

—When students feel rapport with their teachers and feel that their teacher’s personalities are something like their own, motivation is higher.

Begin with a question that is concrete and based on concrete experience that the students can all relate to. Students need the prerequisite knowledge for the discussion to begin or the discussion can initially devolve into an explanation of required preknowledge. Through response, students verify their understanding of the question. Students provide possible answers or resolutions to the question. Often the answers should draw on personal experience. Subsidiary questions are explored based upon responses.

primary assessment involves the quality of the discussion

There is a danger of the instructor dominating the discussion

Good social skills are critical to successful functioning in life.

good social skills can influence their academic performance, behavior, social and family relationships, and involvement in extracurricular activities. Social skills are also linked to the quality of the school environment and school safety.

A person can teach in one of Milwaukee's 125 publicly funded private schools without even a high school diploma.

"teacher proof"

Such approaches ignore fundamental issues of resources, teacher leadership, teaching and learning conditions, and the need for much more time for teachers to collaborate, assess student progress, and improve their teaching skills.

The introduction to this legislation states that "In America, no child should be left behind. Every child should be educated to his or her full potential." Mandating standards and tests in and of itself cannot erase the fact that children from homes where parents have little education and minimal resources have many strikes against them.

Evidence indicates that the "digital divide" gets larger each day. Children in homes with computers have huge advantages over those without such technology. While neurologists have extolled the virtues of high-protein diets for brain growth and development of young children, the economically disadvantaged continue to be plagued with high-carbohydrate diets, even in Head Start and public-school food service programs. Evidence indicates that more time on task helps to advance learning. The few efforts to increase the school year have mainly focused on poorly structured remedial summer programs doomed from their inception with the "punishment brand."

Empirical research does not support the belief that all children can learn the same curriculum, in the same amount of time, and at the same level. The problem with such an unsubstantiated belief is that it may be used to deny differential financial support for those who come to school with environmental disadvantages. Not all children have high-quality nutrition, stimulating homes, and extensive learning opportunities prior to entering school.

An affordance is a quality of an object, or an environment, that allows an individual to perform an action.

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curriculum

User friendly and reliable technology is critical to a successful online program

81 percent of young people report "media multitasking" at least some of the time.

esearch suggests that it slows children's productivity, changes the way they learn and may even render social relationships more superficial

People who multitask actually take longer to get things done.

  Perhaps that is why Professor Pickett mentioned she had a hard time with students that felt they had nothing to learn.

“the aim of education must be the facilitation of learning”.

Though Rogers was referring to these traits in classroom, these same qualities apply to online learning and have been demonstrated by the Professor in the design of this course and in the breeze presentation explaining effective online learning.