Plays, pathways and ending up in tech

- Digital Credentials -

Gráinne Hamilton

@grainnehamilton

grainne.hamilton@digitalme.co.uk

Building digital DNA by Bryan Mathers CC BY-NC-ND 4.0

Plays

Tech

Pathway

• Understanding we have skills

• Being able to articulate our skills

• Seeing how our skills connect us to employment

• Being aware of our intrinsic motivators at a

skills micro level

Pathways to employment- challenges -

Mozilla Discover Open Badges

Badge-based pathways to employment

Digital credentials

A web standard which captures

and communicates skills and

attributes

Open Badges?

What makes a badge?

A framework for helping underprivileged youth

identify their skills and develop resilience in

pursuing a path to career they would thrive in

Mozilla Discover Open Badges

A prototype tool that employers could use to

create badge-based pathways to jobs and

learners could use badges to complete

Mozilla Discover Open Badges

Building pathways to tech using

Open Badges

An Open Badge journey

Showcase applied

skills & attributes

Skills-awareness &

articulation of skills

CPD & Lifelong

learning

School Transition into

employment

Professionals

Getting girls into tech

Girls Transition into tech Women in tech

Badge profiles help

girls recognise tech

related skills at an

early age

Badge pathways link

skills gained at school

with job skills

Badge evidence and

evidence-based

endorsements

provide recognition of

contribution to tech

Tech Showcase badge:

recognising your contribution to tech