Dr. Doug Belshaw Dynamic Skillset
@dajbelshaw
DIGITAL LITERACIES LEARNING PATHWAYS & OPEN BADGES
#thelearningconversation
https://youtu.be/XWxU__J6jlI
Morpeth
Teacher (History/ICT)
Jisc infoNet (OER, mobile learning,
digital literacies)
Director of E-Learning
Open Badges / Web Literacy
(Mozilla)
Consultant (Dynamic Skillset)
MA
Ed.D.
BACKSTORY
Structure
• Intro • Identifying (digital literacies) • Credentialing (badges) • Scaffolding (pathways) • Conclusion
Structure
• Intro • Identifying (digital literacies) • Credentialing • Scaffolding • Conclusion
1. What does it mean to be educated in the 21st century?
2. What does it mean to be digitally literate?
3. What actually is 'digital literacy'? ?
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DIGITAL LITERACY IS...
ONE DEFINITION TO RULE THEM ALL (and in the darkness bind them?)
DIGITAL LITERACY
DIGITAL LITERACIES
CONTEXT-DEPENDENT
DIGITAL LITERACIES
DIGITAL LITERACIES
DIGITAL LITERACIES
DIGITAL LITERACIES
:-(TOO HARD? GIVE UP?
META-ANALYSIS
THE 8 ELEMENTS OF DIGITAL LITERACIES
CoCommunicative
CuCultural
CgCognitive
CnConstructive
CiCivic
CrCreative
CfConfident
CtCritical
http://youtu.be/A8yQPoTcZ78
http://dougbelshaw.com/ambiguity
Digital literacy is a condition, not a threshold.
Martin (2006)
““
WORK WITH OTHERS (don’t reinvent the wheel)
CO-CREATE DEFINITIONS
FOUR SKILLSETS
CoCommunicative
CuCultural
CgCognitive
CnConstructive
CiCivic
CrCreative
CfConfident
CtCritical
(skillsets/mindsets iteration by @MrTedP)
FOUR MINDSETS
CoCommunicative
CuCultural
CgCognitive
CnConstructive
CiCivic
CrCreative
CfConfident
CtCritical
http://digitalliteraci.es/wiki
Use my wiki! (these are M.Ed. students
from the Uni of Alaska)
DIGITAL LITERACIES
WEB LITERACY
Mozilla!
https://teach.mozilla.org/teach-like-mozilla/web-literacy
v1.5
Structure
• Intro • Identifying • Credentialing (badges) • Scaffolding • Conclusion
Digital badges have been around for ages
...but they’re difficult to verify and they’re easy to copy
Enter Open Badges! (or more accurately, the OBI)
Image CC BY-SA Kyle Bowen
This is how it works
A person or organisation issues a badge
Earner chooses to put it in their backpack
Collections of badges can be shared to unlock new opportunities and possibilities.
Some recent badges created in association with DigitalMe
Interoperable
welcometobusinesstown.tumblr.com
March 2015: • 14,000 issuers worldwide • ~2 million badges issued • ~350,000 badges sent to backpacks •~90,000 backpacks
How do you quantify value?
Progression
120 badge partners
Structure
• Intro • Identifying • Credentialing • Scaffolding (pathways) • Conclusion
Skill tree from Path of Exile (an MMPORG)
Self
Peer Expert
Badge
Badge Badge
BADGE
Learning Pathways
Image CC BY-ND Bryan Mathers
Badge pathways
Cow paths?
Prescriptive learning pathways are those that are created ahead of time and chart a series of activities towards a pre-determined goal.
Descriptive learning pathways, on the other hand, are those that are created after learners have reached their goal. As the name suggests, they represent what has already taken place.
http://goo.gl/yB5FFB
(unfinished Mozilla whitepaper)
Structure
• Intro • Identifying • Credentialing • Scaffolding • Conclusion
Learners are already doing their own thing. Let’s identify , scaffold, and credential that.
Image CC BY-ND Bryan Mathers
Here: ask now or grab me later
Twitter: @dajbelshaw
Email: [email protected]
Ask hard questions!
• http://badgealliance.org
• http://dynamicskillset.com
• http://badges.thinkoutloudclub.com
• http://digitalme.co.uk/badgecanvas
Useful links:http://gum.co/digilit
(code = ‘worcester’)