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1Designed for Success:
Professional Development & Digital Badges
ICE 2015
Angela Elkordy
Assistant Professor, Learning Sciences
National College of Education, National Louis University
2/27/2015
Follow along: http://goo.gl/toV9Hl
4Quick Check:
• Audience (who’s here?)
• What do you know (if anything) about digital badges?
• What do you want to know?
Already Know
Want to Know
Learned?
Collaborate -- backchannel:https://todaysmeet.com/digitalbadges
6 Big Picture Overview
• What are digital badges?• What are Competency-based models of
professional development• Why digital badges for professional learning? • View examples of badges and badging
systems• How can I leverage digital badges to add
value and transparency in learning environments
• Where to find additional resources
7Why do we need new ways to measure and communicate learning?
Digital age learners….
Socio-cultural contexts …
Educator roles & digital age learners… when learning is continuous, in and out of school
Life-long and life-wide learners
What is valued as “Learning?”
11What are digital badges?
• They are images…
• with “metadata” (data about data) attached
• Come in two main flavors: Open & Proprietary
• evidence-based;• acknowledge and communicate
skills;• flexible;• granular;• “common assessments.”
Digital badges “of” learning
Robust digital badge assessments :
• are transparent;
• scaffold learning;
• motivate learners;
• communicate expectations widely;
• reinforce and strengthen important metacognitive skills
• can be used to recognize, assess and communicate a wide variety of skills;
• differentiate.
Digital badges “for” learning
14Why do we need digital badges and micro-credentialing?
What are micro-credentials anyway?
• Source: Building Badges for Informal Learning Environments: http://fastapps.hri.uci.edu/files/2423/files/BADGE-workshopsheets.pdf
Track learning over time
• Establish credentials and skills in learning community for:
• Elementary Teachers • Middle School Teachers• High School Teachers• Specialists• Professional Student Supports• Paraprofessionals• Administrators
Why do we need digital badges?
Image credit: Carlosae: http://carlosae.deviantart.com/art/Flower-Fractal-Kaleidoscope-362698489
• Audiences:
• Administrators• Parents• Students• Community members• Potential employers• Colleagues• Family & friends
Image credit: Carlosae: http://carlosae.deviantart.com/art/Flower-Fractal-Kaleidoscope-362698489
Why do we need digital badges?
18Competency-based Learning
•measures learning and skills acquisition versus seat-time
19Badges & Competency Learning Report by Pearson / Acclaim: http://goo.gl/vGCnbj
• “some significant limitations” to traditional diplomas:
• 1. Diplomas lack transparency and granularity.
• 2. College grades are subjective – and can be a low quality indicator of real competence.
• 3. Competency-based criteria that map learning to job requirements effectively complement the grades on a college transcript and provide better information for employers evaluating candidates.
• 4. For diplomas, institutional reputation drives value, not job relevance.
20Badges & Competency Learning Report by Pearson / Acclaim: http://goo.gl/vGCnbj
• 5. New learning providers challenge the status quo. Today’s students have more learning options than ever before.
• 6. The traditional accreditation processes must evolve.
• 7. Learners are not in control of their own qualifications.
• 8. Learners need to make informed college investment choices.
• 9. Connecting learning and career pathways.
21Digital badges are Competency-based
•What can you *do*?
• Evidence based
• Performance tasks
• Visible learning
22Visible Learning, Competencies, Skills: What do you value?
• Teacher B: “I wish there was some way… I wish that you could quantify students’ feelings in a classroom.”
• Teacher A: “Even us, with our evaluations…‘builds positive relationships with students is a little checkbox. It's yes, you do, or you don't.”
• [ Teacher B: That's a crazy thing to say yes or no to.]
• “So you know to have badges, or have other things that kind of quantify more what actually goes into that. And what having good relationships with your students gets you as a teacher. And for them, in terms of fewer referrals, better grades, and things like that.”
23What do you value? Skill sets?
Specialized content
knowledge?
Competencies? Data Review
Protocols? Intrapersona
l skills?
Snazzy Technology
Skills?
Classroom manageme
nt and organizatio
n
Pedagogical
knowledge? ESL/
Poverty?
Snazzy Technology
Skills?
25Creating “Professional Presence”
What can I do with my digital badges?
• Link to professional presences
• Blogs• Linked In• Portfolios• Section on Resume /
CV• Keep in Digital
Backpack and share links
• Wikis• Print out• Share on social media• Create digital transcript
27What types of badges are available for educators?
Aren’t we at the beginning of all this badge business…?
• Achievement (specific criteria)
• Affiliation (belonging)
• Aptitudes or traits
• Demonstration of specific skills (products)
• Incremental (toward a goal)
• Participation (events, classes, meetings)
• Social capital (mentoring, collaborating, team building)
Kinds of badges
29Creating Digital Badge Frameworks
30Top Ten Reasons to Use Digital Badges for Educator P.D. (A. Elkordy aelkordy@nl.edu/K. Fontichiaro, font@umich.edu)
1. Track educators learning over time.
2. Show educators professional growth over time (“constellations”)
3. Create a framework for comprehensive staff development
4. Create a platform for dialogue about knowledge and skills development
5. Targeted skills development
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6. Create and share digital skills portfolios
7. Establish a culture of accountability with flexibility
8. Motivate adult learners
9. Re-energize attitudes toward professional development
10. Create an eportfolio for exploring career opportunities
11. Foster positive culture and shared vision.
Top Ten Reasons to Use Digital Badges for Educator P.D. (A. Elkordy aelkordy@nl.edu/K. Fontichiaro, font@umich.edu)
32Turn and Talk. What do you think?
33Examples ….. possibilities
Life long and life wide learning
aren’t going away! Neither are alternative credentials!
36Earn Angela’s Action Research badge
37Earn Angela’s Teacher Researcher 1 badge: Proposal
38Great Lakes Science Teacher Badging
39Reconnect Learning
http://www.reconnectlearning.org/summit/
40Competency-based Teacher (Digital Promise)
42Pilot: Digital Promise
43Teaching Matters: Teacher Leadership Micro-credentials
45Earn a badge! aelkordy@nl.edu
1. Design a standards-aligned digital badge (for students) or
2. Design a badge to recognize professional competencies
3. Include 3 badge criteria
4. Include 3 possible kinds of “evidence” of meeting the criteria (e.g. video, document, presentation, digital artifact etc.
46A digital badge template
Design Tools
•Thank you!
• For more information, visit http://www.badgebox.net/
• Or contact Angela Elkordy• aelkordy@nl.edu• call (734) 494-0640 (Google voice)
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