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Professional Development: Badges
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Wakelet is a website where you can create collections of links, documents, and comments. This makes learning more efficient by giving students an easier way to view and collect resources. This makes learning more engaging by giving students a more unique way to learn through primary and secondary sources. This makes learning more enhancing by giving students a new way to collect sources and present information.
For this badge, I had to examine two different tutorials with copyright and plagiarism. Being able to examine and find different ways to present copyright and plagiarism is good for not only educators and students. It makes learning more enhanced by teaching students how to properly cite and using peoples ideas and sources. It makes learning more efficient by giving students something they can use for future projects, papers, and presentations.
For this badge, I had to examine my online Identity and how future careers and currently my social media can affect my future success. Having my students look into their own online identity can help them realize what being a good digital citizen looks like. This makes learning more effective by instilling good online habits earlier having students realize the importance of a good digital citizenship identity.
For this badge, I had to create a collection of websites for students to access like a classroom homepage. At the moment I was considering switching my major to Art education. Having students have easier access to websites used frequently can efficient. This makes learning more enhanced by giving students a way for them to keep resources that they frequently use or need for a specific course or project.
For this badge, I created a newsletter. This newsletter is a model for one of my future classrooms. This badge showed me that Smore can make learning more efficient by having students know what to expect with a weekly newspaper. This can make learning more effective by having students with a way for them to look at and plan for the week's learning.
For this badge, I had to look into multiple resources and things I could use in my future Social Studies classroom. This makes learning more engaging by giving me future unique resources that students can use. This makes learning more enhanced through fun and easy ways for students to learn social studies.
For this badge, I created a google map of all fifty states' capitals and the United States capital. This makes learning more efficient by being a collection of facts and links to information about the capitals. It makes learning more enhanced by visually showing all capitals on the map. This is more effictive by being an easily accessible collection of all fifty-one capitals.
For this badge, I had to showcase an example project for a future classroom project. The project was creating a country and having students show aspects of a civilization. This makes learning more engaging by giving students the freedom to create a country and showcase what they learned. This makes learning more effective by being a unique way that covers the standards.
For this badge, I had to showcase my knowledge and read about how to use and utilize apple products for students and teachers. At the end of this badge, I got certified as an Apple Educator. This makes learning more efficient by giving me the skills to be more learning using Apple products more efficient. This makes learning more effective by giving me more ways to utilize technology in education.
For this badge, I created a fake Facebook account for founding father, Benjamin Franklin. This was one of my favorite badges to complete. This makes learning more engaging and enhancing. This is because it is an unique way for students to learn about historical figures through a project-based experience. This unique experience is one that I will not forget and neither will my students.