Accrediting a Holistic Education using Open Badges

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Open Badges 101

• What are they? • Why use them? • How can they be used for learning?

# Problem 1: How do we capture learning that happens everywhere?

Skills that are in-demand by employers:

“Over 70% of employers want employability skills to become a top education priority.”The CBI

# Problem 2: How can we present a holistic view of learning & achievements?

# Problem 3: How can we connect talent with opportunity?

What if we used badges for learning?

Mozilla Open Badge Infrastructure

Opendbadges.org

Example student profile

What do young people think?

https://www.makewav.es/story/490857/title/youngpeoplesviewsonopenbadges

Open Badges in Action

Supporter 2 Reporter Case Study

Open Badge Case StudyS2R Medals

Digital media + learning competition winners

500 young people, from all over the UK, directly involved so far in this outstanding, award-winning media project.

24,000 young people reached in school through outreach and our Radiowaves partnership

S2R Participants

Local reporting…

Activities…

Reporters have interviewed hundreds of interesting people and

created over 10,000 reports and blogs

Challenging national events..

Who Knows Us?

Safely share reports online and connect with young people around the world

Work with DigitalMe to shape and refine the programme and systems

Promote badging throughout Radiowaves community

Link community achievements to S2R Medals and create the required management tools

Create a .NET OBI integration library for public use

Enhance API to allow others to create badges that integrate achievements

What we will do

Translating skills to badges

Identify the SKILLS required to achieve S2R Medals

Decide what EVIDENCE is required and how this ASSESSED

Explore PRACTICAL ways to deliver S2R Medal activity

Discuss the VALUE of medals and how to increase it

Qualitative assessment of skills by peers/leaders

3 sets Journalist, Coach & Producer

3 levels in each set: Bronze, Silver & Gold

S2R Open Badges

Bronze Criteria Students create three sports reports of acceptable quality accepted into the S2R Medals channel. They need to be about sport, use appropriate language and contain text and images/videos.

Skills• able to create subject related media• motivated and technically able• Understands how to use at least one type of media• Can consistently create media stories of acceptable

quality

Silver Criteria Demonstrate research and interview skills and promote & connect with audience online.

Skills• Conduct a professional interviews (body language, professionalism)• Appropriateness of questions (clear, relevant etc) Able to listen• Can research using the web (and offline channels) and demonstrate this• Can use appropriate language and tone and can present ideas confidently and clearly…..• Can promote to and engage with an audience online• Can reflect on own work and self-assess to a degree.• Understands how to use more than one type of media - Awareness of Copyright

S2R Medals Ecosystem

Gold

Silver

Bronze

Offline

Easy to use Framework and Resources for Teachers

www.makewav.es/s2r

S2R Program is available FREE to schools & clubs worldwide!www.makewav.es/s2r

What do people think about Badges?

Student feedback: Venture Academy

Context

• Academy of around 600 students

• Wanted to create a platform for student voice

• Wanted to echo our Academy rewards culture digitally

A Student’s perspectiveWhat skills did we learn?

1. Working as a team with people you would not usually mix with

2. Timekeeping and organisation

3. Literacy

4. Confidence

Opportunities

• Achieving ‘Investors in Pupils’

• Creating badges tailored for our Academy:

• Sports Leaders• Accelerated Reader• Student Leadership • Subject Leadership

Digital Leader Badges (in-progress design)

How can I use badges in my school?

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Makewaves is a leading safe social learning platform

Whether posting photos via the App, submitting a video competition entry to the WWF Channel or live blogging from the Olympics, Makewaves provides a fun, easy to use way to engage learners worldwide.

Makewaves homepage screenshot Oct 2012

How teachers award badges

Say Hello!Lucy Nealelucy.neale@digitalme.co.uk@lucydmedigitalme.co.uk