Digital Badges: Development Workshop

1. Digital Badges: Development Workshop Angela Elkordy Doctoral Candidate Eastern Michigan University, Leadership and Counseling Dept. aelkordy@emich.edu

2. Teacher Joy! Workshop Objective

3. Session learning targets: • The concept of “digital badges” • Digital badges, learning and assessment • Principles for designing effective badges and badge systems • Teaching practices & digital badges • Digital badge design overview • Additional resources Workshop Objectives

4. What are digital badges?

5. Participation -- you attended! (yay!) • Social capital – mentoring, sharing, collaboration • Incremental -- series of knowledge, skills, or competencies (formative feedback) • Achievement – series of knowledge, skills, or competencies to task mastery (summary feedback) Types of badges

6. evidence-based; • acknowledge and communicate skills; • flexible (even transcultural, embodying criteria important to communities of practice globally); • granular (very specific skills and knowledge sets can be targeted); • “common assessments.” Digital badges“of” learning

7. Robust digital badge assessments : • Effectively communicate learning objectives and evidence of learning; • scaffold learning; • motivate learners; • empower learners to “own” their learning and results; • provide essential formative feedback; • communicate expectations widely; • reinforce and strengthen important metacognitive skills • can be used to recognize, assess and communicate a wide variety of skills; • add value and transparency in learning environments; • differentiate. Digital badges“for” learning

8. Learning targets; • Behavioral targets; • Socio-emotional targets; • Skill based targets; • Proficiency (or Mastery) targets; How can I use digital badges? (contexts)

9. Motivation targets; • Measure “new” skills; • Differentiate instruction; • Communicate expectations; • Provide essential formative feedback • Increase learners’ metacognitive skills and self-efficacy • Share ideas! How can I use digital badges? (goals & strategies)

10. Another School…

11. MIA

12. Discuss with your neighbors (4 mins) • Share with all of us Learning you would like to communicate…

13. Source: Building Badges for Informal Learning Environments: http://fastapps.hri.uci.edu/files/2423/files/BADGE-workshopsheets.pdf Track student learning over time

14. Chicago Summer of Learning Competition Winners Badging Examples

15. Digital Badging Systems: Passport

16. Digital Badging Systems: Classbadges.com

17. Objectives • Learning targets • Badge skills • Badge criteria (performance tasks) • Evidence of learning • Alignment to standards (if applicable) • Rubric (optional) • Learning activities (optional) • Badge image (visual design) Digital Badge Design: Essential Elements

18. Understanding by Design • What are the learning targets? • What kind of products will evidence learning? • What kinds of activities and experiences will support mastery learning? • Bonus: instantly reflective! How can I *teach* these concepts to ensure learning? • Digital badge assessments can align well with the idea of critically looking at learning and mastery of concepts can be evidenced • Digital badges can guide or scaffold learning, leading to greater understanding • Through performance activities, learning is made “visible” Design for Understanding

19. Team Design Time

20. Digital Badging Systems: Makewav.es

21. The Bare Minimum: • Badge skills • Badge criteria (performance tasks) • Evidence of learning (products) • Badge image (visual design) 1. Design badge elements

22. 2. Join as a teacher

23. 3. Select Add Badges

24. 4. Click on “Make a Badge”

25. Example

26. 5. Build the badge

27. Create the badge image

28. Adding students

29. Awarding Badges

30. Talk to you neighbors (4 mins) • Share with us Reflecting: Teaching Practice

31. Reflective • Learning designers • Outcomes based • Performance based • Teaching for mastery • Link formal and informal learning Badges and Teaching

32. Joy or no joy? Summary….

33. JAK! Workshop Evaluation

34. Resources: Digital Badges Pearltrees(http://goo.gl/0SqVWG)

35. Thank you! • For more information, visit http://www.badgebox.net/ and or makewav.es/badgebox • Or contact Angela Elkordy • aelkordy@emich.edu • call (734) 494-0640 (Google voice) Questions?

36. Badges How To: Using Your Classroom Rubrics to Create a Badge System (Karen Jeffrey) • http://blog.forallsystems.com/2013/01/23/badges-how-to-using-your-classroom-rubrics-to-design-a-badge-system/ Resources

37.  Study Objectives; What we are doing and why are we doing it? • - Navigate Digital Badges website • - Look at existing website and see where Digital Badges can fit • - Share consent forms, coding procedures and surveys (pre/post for students and teachers) • - Provide information/implementation guides Study set up

38. Digital Badges for Educators’ Professional Development

39. Opportunity to participate in award winning research … Grades 6-10

40. The Need for Research in Implementing Digital Badge Programs in K-12 Contexts • Important New Trend • Learners Already Like Badges • Collaborate to Show Effects • EASY and ENGAGING! • Innovate! • Substantiate! • Collaborate! • Participate! (designed to be helpful to you!) • Learn how it works, then make your own! Why would I want to …. ?

41. For more information: Research Study and Digital Badges (www.badgebox.net)

42. Digital Badges Study: What’s Involved?

43. Digital Badges • Badge Design: • Learning trajectory with increasing cognitive difficulty • Standards alignment • Performance assessment / suggested activities to demonstrate content mastery • Resources and ideas

44. This digital badge trajectory scaffolds learning in basic data and statistical concepts for middle and high school age learners. It is designed to be used in a variety of content areas in addition to science and math. • 4 levels plus one challenge level • Aligned with Next Generation Science Standard, Practice: “Analyzing and Interpreting Data” • Aligned with CCSS Math (Data and Statistics, for grades 6-10) • Also, alignment with NETS-S and P21 • Includes: Learning Targets, Badge Requirements, Performance Tasks, Evidence of Learning • Suitable for grades 6 and up (meets 6-8 standards) Data Whiz Badge Track

45. This digital badge trajectory scaffolds intermediate and advanced learning in data and statistical concepts for middle and high school age learners. It is designed to be used in a variety of content areas in addition to science and math. • 4 levels plus one challenge level ; • Aligned with Next Generation Science Standard, Practice: “Analyzing and Interpreting Data” • Aligned with CCSS Math (Data and Statistics, for grades 8-10) • Also, alignment with NETS-S and P21 • Includes: Learning Targets, Badge Requirements, Performance Tasks, Evidence of Learning • Suitable for grades 8-10 and up (meets 9-10 standards) Data Hacker Badge Track

46. Open Comment Period (Aug.15 - Sept. 8, 2013) • Together, we design great learning resources! • Please review, comment, suggest or ask about the digital badges below. Thank you! • Greetings! the InfoMaker Badge Series (Draft) is now open for review and comment for a period ending September 8th, 2013. • Additional changes will be made……. InfoMaker Badge Track: http://goo.gl/s6axXF

47. How to participate in the study