Open Badges Design Workshop Lady Lumley’s School (High School) Pickering, North Yorkshire, UK Tue 11 Dec 2012
Facilitators: Tim Riches & Lucy Neale @triches @lucydme #openbadges [email protected] [email protected]
What are Badges?
Robert Baden-Powell
He noIced that it helped the soldiers to develop independence rather than just blindly follow officers' orders
Badges and the web...
Social & build value over Ime…
Not just digital badges but Open Badges
Open Badges are images with metadata hard-coded into them
They recognise your skills, can be shared across the web & open new opportuniIes
• Employment • DifferenBaBon • Social status
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Challenge: Become part of our naIonal sports reporIng team. Learn media, teamwork, creaIvity, world of work skills.
Case Study
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How did we get here?
Local reporIng…
AcIviIes…
Challenging naIonal events..
www.makewav.es/s2r
An open, free plaWorm for creaIng, earning and displaying Open Badges
“At the forefront of educaBon social networks” The Guardian
Displaying S2R Medals (Open Badges)
Young people can obtain S2R ‘Medals’ in 3 sets: Journalist, Producer & Coach
En route to gaining Medals students will gather ‘Achievements’ for their contribuBon to the S2R community
Overview
Not pushed out to Open Badge Infrastructure and main value is within community
Granular markers & rewards for acBvity
Community Achievements
QualitaBve assessment of skills by peers/leaders
3 sets Journalist, Coach & Producer
3 levels in each set: Bronze, Silver & Gold
Medals
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Co-‐designing with students, teachers & employers
What is a student digital leader?
Activities
Activities
Workshop – Designing badges for Student Digital Leaders
Activities Skills
Activities Skills Role
Student outputs
Students from Lady Lumley’s are designing three badges & mapping skills developed on a Imeline…
How you can get involved…
Research & Design
Timeline
Design Event Mozilla Offices
Northern design event
Open pilot
Share, refine, scale up internaBonally
Dec 12
Jan
March
April
Sep 13
Badgethon design event at Mozilla 17 Jan (please note we may push the start Ime back to allow for
travelling teachers & students)
Email [email protected] to join Open Badge design mailing list
Visit Open Badges and school – DigitalMe blog Student Digital Leader Network