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Sarah Blattner

Project Tomorrow | Speak Up - 0 views

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    Data on K-12 students and their tech use. Debunks the myth that our students are digital natives.
Sarah Blattner

CSOL 2013: SOLAR POWER UP @ PEGGY NOTEBAERT NATURE MUSEUM - YouTube - 0 views

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    Solar Power Up: Great example of how badges lead to tinkering, as well as how it's all about making and creating. Video shared by Connie Yowell of the MacArthur Foundation at the Open Badges Summit 2014.
Sarah Blattner

2mbetterfutures.org - 0 views

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    2M is a campaign to scale up the existing badge ecosystem to a national level to benefit 1 million workers and 1 million students by 2016. Initiative from Mozilla Foundation, HASTAC and the MacArthur Foundation
Kelly Platzke

My experience in getting started with Genius Hour | ReconfigurEd. - 1 views

  • We provided a proposal template in the form of a Google Doc and asked that each student submit their idea and plan to their teacher. As the proposals star rolling in, we are giving students feedback by leaving a comment on their document and suggesting changes or tweaks where necessary.
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      These are science-based ideas, but students could make LA connections as well. (i.e. Is it true that the only theme in all of literature is "Who am I?"; Yahweh means "I AM" - how does that impact our understanding of human identity?). Any topic will be applicable to LA and technology skills: research, writing, collaborating, sharing, presenting, etc. 
  • Google’s 80/20 time, where engineers are encouraged to take 20% of their weekly load to work towards personal projects of their choice.
  • The question we both had was, what if students were offered the same opportunity?
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  • twitter,
  • following media and blog articles
  • They would be given roughly 1 hour during the week to work towards their projects. I also made this sweet banner as our Genius Hour poster, and explained that photoshop was something that no-body taught me, because I was never given the opportunity to learn it. But I decided to find out if I could teach myself. The result is that I now have a basic knowledge of photoshop! This was the idea that we communicated to them about Genius Hour, that they were to be the ones to decide what to learn, how to do it, and then what to do with it.
  • 10 Principles of Genius Hour
  • firming up their essential question to set up their projects.
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Sarah Blattner

Digital Badges at the Agricultural Sustainability Institute - 0 views

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    A rich example of how badge learning can be implemented to support authentic, project-based, student-interest driven learning. This is a program at UC Davis. What pieces of their program could be applicable to a grades 6-12 setting, where badges offer feedback, learning milestones, and open up spaces of possibilities for learning?
Sarah Blattner

What Counts as Learning by Sheryl Grant - 1 views

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    New ebook from the DIgital Media Learning Hub that takes up the topic of open badges for new opportunities and how learning can be connected for individuals as they vertically move through their educational and professional experiences
Sarah Blattner

The Jewish Chronicle - With a cue from scouting BadgeQuest aims for greater Jewish enga... - 0 views

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    BadgeQuest, JJEP and TAMRITZ team up to build a K-7 afterschool Jewish education program that increases Jewish learning minutes outside of school each week. Check it out.
Sarah Blattner

10 Elements of Next-Gen Learner Experience (LX) - Getting Smart by Tom Vander Ark - | G... - 0 views

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    How does learning in your classroom measure up to the 10 characteristics of a quality learner experience.
Sarah Blattner

Do you know? - 0 views

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    10 Things Everyone Should Know About K-12 Students' Views on Digital Learning
Sarah Blattner

BrainPOP - Animated Educational Site for Kids - Science, Social Studies, English, Math,... - 1 views

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    A  useful collection of resources for teaching internet safety and netiquette to 4th grade and up.
Sarah Blattner

LessonPaths - Create, share and explore Learning Playlists - LessonPaths - 1 views

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    MentorMob EDU, a tool to create learning pathways and "playlists" is now called LessonPaths
Sarah Blattner

Quadblogging - Sign up - 0 views

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    This is a cool way to get kids interacting with classrooms around the globe and it gives them an authentic audience. Check it out!
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