badge your way to digital literacy
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Leonie McIlvenny
Digital Literacy in Secondary Schools:
Badge your way to digital literacy
competency
• How the ICT General Capabilities are being taught, monitored and assessed in a Digital Passport Program • Digital badging as a reliable
means of capturing evidence of student learning
Year 7s
Curriculum
ICT GCs
1:1 Program
Library Program
IILP
My Digital Passport
A digital badge is an online representation of a skill you’ve earned usually in the form of an icon or symbol.
What is a digital badge?
Gaming Badges
What is the difference between traditional badges and digital badges?
Traditional Badges
Open Badge Infrastructure – an interoperable standard
An Open Badge is a representation of an accomplishment that is available online and contains metadata that helps explain the context, meaning, process and result of an activity.
What are Open Badges?
• Purdue Passport• Blackboard Open Badges
Building Block• Wordpress Plugins• Open Badger (Mozilla)• Backpack• Credly
Open Application Programming Interfaces (APIs)
ISSUER
ISSUE DATE BADGE CRITERIA
EVIDENCE
BADGE ICON
BADGE DETAILS
EXAMPLE OF THE METADATA ATTACHED TO A DIGITAL BADGE
University Job TrainingOpen Learning
DegreeSkill
DISPLAYER: Personal / professional networks and Social Media
VIEWER: UniversityQualifications (Degree)
Lifelong Learning
VIEWER:EmployerResume / portfolio / certification
ISSUER: Any association Organization or institution wanting to award a badge
EARNER: Individuals who earn the badges
BADGES: Earned for skills, achievements from the institution issuing the badge
DISPLAYER: web platform where badges are displayed – can be public or private
Competency
Open badges can be awarded for a potentially limitless set of individual competencies, experiences, knowledge and skills, regardless of where or how those are developed. Collections of badges can serve as living transcripts or virtual resumés of competencies and qualities that communicate to key stakeholders such as peers, schools, higher education institutions, or employers.
Gibson, Ostashewski,Flintoff, Grant & Knight,2013
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Links to the ICT General Capabilities from the Australian Curriculum
Links to the ICT General Capabilities from the Australian Curriculum
Badge Reports
Badge Reports
SEQTA Learning Management SystemInspired Learning Website
Course website
Iona Presentation College
Skill
DISPLAYER: Personal / professional networks and Social Media
School
VIEWER:EmployerResume / portfolio / certification
ISSUER: Any association Organization or institution wanting to award a badge
EARNER: Individuals who earn the badges
BADGES: Earned for skills, achievements from the institution issuing the badge
DISPLAYER: web platform where badges are displayed – can be public or private
Competency
My Digital Passport
Badges can………
Allow students to guide their own learning
Illustrate learning pathways
Make learning visible for non-traditional and soft skills.
Promote the concept that learning is a long term pursuit that can happen outside as well as inside formal learning institutions.
This slide is static anddoes not animate.Transfer skills
across industries
Digital BadgesTime to adoption
Horizon: Four to Five Years
The Horizon Report
• Digital badges have been a boon for efforts to validate the acquisition of soft skills such as problem-solving, persistence, communication, and other attributes that are valued by employers.
• The ultimate goal (of digital badges) is to develop a method of evaluation that will complement traditionally recognized credentials.
• Currently, digital badging systems are gaining traction in many online learning environments including Khan Academy, with promising results.
• “Passport to Success,” is a badging system that tracks achievements through grades K-12 and is implemented alongside a college readiness program.
Credentials Reform: How technology and the changing needs of the workforce will create the higher education system of the future by Jamie Merisotis
• Learning will be the core measure of progress with students able to demonstrate what they’ve learned through dynamic platforms.
• Today’s job seekers can possess everything from associate degrees and apprenticeships to occupational licenses and education certificates, all the way to digital badges and employer-based certification.
• There is a drive to connect credentials from a variety of providers into one comprehensive and navigable system which uses a universal taxonomy.
• For 21st century workers the digital resume should be seen as a reservoir of skills and competencies that have been accumulated over time from a range of providers and provides flexibility to manipulate and group competencies and skills as required by potential employers.
What to consider
• Purpose • Stakeholders (students, school, future employers)• Audience (single or multiple)• Types of badges (hard skills, soft skills, progress,
achievement• Lifecycle• Learning Pathways (linear / non-linear)• Implementation (who is responsible for creating,
administering, assessing, accrediting)• User experience• Platform to be used / technology• Metrics and analytics
Where to from here……
• Aim for seamless integration without the need for a third party program outside the LMS
• Continue to change the culture from badges merely being a glorified reward sticker to a legitimate and valuable credentialing system for skills and competencies.
• Explore other curriculum areas that could benefit from the use of this digital credentialing system
Questions?