Pinterest. Christa and Allen. Video library. What are badges? This is re-posted from Iridescent’s blog and was written by Kevin Miklasz, Director of Digital Curriculum at Iridescent. This is the first in a series of posts we’ll share here on the topic of digital badges in education. Badges are soon to be, if not already, a hot topic in education. Yet unlike many other hot topics, it’s a little unclear what badges are and why they might be useful.
Badges have baggage, meaning badges are entering education with a complex history of varied uses in non-educational settings. Before we can effectively implement educational badges, we have to unpack and understand the baggage. Let’s start with a little bit of history. Given this history, it should be clear that badges mean different things to different people.
Skill badges- These are the Boy Scout merit badges and what the game industry calls “achievements.” These categories are not mutually exclusive. Unlocking Structures: Take it to the Next Level. Developing digital Literacies. Foundation Degree Tweet-Up – 18th February 2013 | JISC PADDLE Project. Foundation Degree Tweet-Up – 18th February 2013 February 14, 2013 at 12:33 pm LibeRaCe Monday 18th February – Set your Twitter accounts to Stun! Learners on the Library Foundation Degree courses in Grwp Llandrillo Menai and Glyndwr University are linking up for the whole week through Twitter – sharing, advising, supporting and ultimately helping each group explore the possibilities of Social Media for collaboration and professional development. Using the hashtag #FDLIB Glyndwr learners will be completing their ‘Group Work in a Week’ project to develop a marketing campaign for World Book Night.
This is hopefully the first of many Tweet-ups Library Foundation Degree course learners can take part in to link across the region and work collaboratively to see the benefits of Social Media for study, work and life! Good luck out there! Like this: Like Loading... Entry filed under: Digital Literacy, Student Study Groups. Keep on Learning :-) | Education. Pearltrees social library tops US App Store charts. Just 10 days ago Pearltrees, the Paris-based social library tool which allows you to organize all things digital, launched the iPhone version. The app, which acts similarly to the already existing iPad and Web apps, allows users to organize “pearls” of information into categories, which can be shared, organized in a tree-like system, and can even be mutually editorialized by several parties. When I first heard about Pearltrees earlier this year when they announced a monumental round-raising of €8.5M, I had a little trouble wrapping my head around why it was so popular (500K active users).
I kept thinking about ReadItLater, Instapaper, and all these other bookmarklets that kept trying to convince me that if I bookmark a blog article, that i’ll come back and read it later (yeah, right!). But when I sat down with Patrice Lamothe last week for lunch, the first thing he did was dispel this idea of Pearltrees being an organized bookmarklet.