two sides of implementing digital badges

Digital BadgesPart 2

Presenter: Peter RawsthorneTwitter: @prawsthorne

Backchannel: #digitalbadges

2nd Lunch and Learn

• December 11th– Badge Systems Design• Traditional badge systems• Digital badge systems

– Technology Implementation• Issuer, Earner (backpack), and Displayer• Related widgets• Messaging based approach

– Possible Futures• Meta-cognition & Personalized curriculum

Badge Systems Design

Traditional Badge Systems

Scouting

http://www.scouts.ca/ca/cub-scouts-0

Scouting (badge assessment)

• Skills assessment• Evaluation with “defense”• Master / Apprentice

http://www.scouts.ca/sites/default/files/recycling.pdf

Martial Arts

http://criticaltechnology.blogspot.ca/2012/05/badge-taxonomy.html http://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/MWA/Badges

Are these badges?

• B.A. - Bachelor of Arts • B.S./B.Sc. - Bachelor of Science• M.A. - Master of Arts• M.S./M.Sc. - Master of Science• Ph.D. - Doctor of Philosophy• Ed.D. - Doctor of Education• Psy.D. - Doctor of Psychology • Th.D. - Doctor of Theology

PhD

MA

BSc

Digital Badge Systems

• Look at Digital Media and Learning site for their work around badges and design - http://dmlcompetition.net/Competition/4/badges-competition-cfp.php

• Carla Casilli has been looking at badge system design for a while - http://carlacasilli.wordpress.com/category/badge-system-design-2/

• Erin Knight provides leadership to the open badges team and also has many interesting insights into badge systems design - http://erinknight.com/post/23306245219/the-three-ts-of-badge-system-design

Issuer• The issuer creates the badge, • figures out what skills and knowledge

are represented by the badge, • figures out how to assess (or prove) if

a person has the skills and knowledge to earn the badge.

• The issuer has a lot of heavy lifting to do, this is because determining if someone has mastered the skills and knowledge and are deserving of a badge requires work and should be rigorous if the badge is going to hold value.

Earner• The earner is anyone who wants to

earn a badge. And they are willing to focus their energy and make an effort to acquire the skills and knowledge that demonstrates their mastery represented by the badge.

• Badges are everywhere, and are particularly present in our youth. – Girl Scouts can earn badges, – Students in sailing school can earn

badges, – Swimmers can earn badges.

• It is these badge systems where people prove skills, knowledge and ability and from this they earn badges.

Displayer

• The displayer provides the ability to display badges. This could be a social media site like facebook or it could be your own personal wordpress blog.

• The displayer will retrieve badges from an earners storage and display them for all to see.

• The groupings and permissions around the display of badges will be determined by the preferences of the earner.

issuers displayers

https://github.com/mozilla/openbadges/wiki/Open-Badges-related-widgets

Open source is a great thing…

https://github.com/mozilla/openbadges/wiki/Open-Badges-related-widgets

What’s Next?

Federated Backpack

http://criticaltechnology.blogspot.ca/2012/10/federated-backpack-demystified.html

The go-cart badge

http://criticaltechnology.blogspot.ca/

full circle.

Setting out to inspire adult learners.

Pedagogy, technology and life-long

learning from outside the institutions.

Meta-cognition is really important.

Mindfulness, self-awareness and action.

How do you learn?

Two themes...

Meta-cognitive Knowledge – reflecting on what we know.

Meta-cognitive Regulating – directing our learning.

http://www.learner.org/courses/learningclassroom/support/09_metacog.pdf

William PinarAllegories of the Present: Curriculum Development in a

Culture of Narcissism and Presentism"

http://vimeo.com/28393833http://criticaltechnology.blogspot.ca/2012/01/personal-curriculum-mapping-pcm.html

This leads to personal curriculum mapping.

Back to the go-cart badge ;)

Why shouldn't we create our own personal curriculum?

Blended is the way!!!!!

Connected learning offers much!

Badge Clustering

Thank-you!

Questions...peter@rawsthorne.org

Twitter: @prawsthorne