Slide stack for 2nd event in digital badges seminar series for SCoPE / BCCampus

1. Digital Badges
Part 2
Presenter: Peter Rawsthorne
Twitter: @prawsthorne
Backchannel: #digitalbadges

2. 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

4. Badge Systems Design

5. Traditional Badge Systems

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

7. Scouting (badge assessment)
• Skills assessment
• Evaluation with “defense”
• Master / Apprentice
http://www.scouts.ca/sites/default/files/recycling.pdf

8. Martial Arts

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

10. Are these badges?
• B.A. - Bachelor of Arts BSc
• B.S./B.Sc. - Bachelor of Science
• M.A. - Master of Arts
• M.S./M.Sc. - Master of Science
• Ph.D. - Doctor of Philosophy MA
• Ed.D. - Doctor of Education
• Psy.D. - Doctor of Psychology
• Th.D. - Doctor of Theology PhD

11. Digital Badge Systems

20. • 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

25. 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.

26. 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.

27. 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.

29. issuers displayers

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

33. Open source is a great thing…

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

37. What’s Next?

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

40. The go-cart badge

41. full circle.
Setting out to inspire adult learners.
Pedagogy, technology and life-long
learning from outside the institutions.
http://criticaltechnology.blogspot.ca/

42. 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

43. William Pinar
Allegories of the Present: Curriculum Development in a
Culture of Narcissism and Presentism"
http://vimeo.com/28393833
http://criticaltechnology.blogspot.ca/2012/01/personal-curriculum-mapping-pcm.html

44. This leads to personal curriculum
mapping.
Why shouldn't we create our own
personal curriculum?
Back to the go-cart badge ;)
Blended is the way!!!!!
Connected learning offers much!

45. Badge Clustering

46. Thank-you!

47. Questions...
peter@rawsthorne.org
Twitter: @prawsthorne