Google's 10-hour Badge-a-thon gets 1,400 educators over 4,000 AI badges
lmoroney · x · 2026-10-02
Google's AI Educator Series ran its first Badge-a-thon: a 10-hour live event where 1,400+ educators earned 4,000+ digital badges on real classroom tasks like rubrics and reading comprehension, with paths to CEUs and graduate credits. All 20 sessions are on YouTube, and a "Badge-a-thon in a Box" toolkit lets schools replicate the event locally.
The author argues teacher confidence with AI comes from running one small, concrete workflow, then repeating it with your own class — a festival format beats another "AI readiness" slide deck.
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