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The Teacher's Guide To Using Badges In Your Classroom. What encourages students to do well in school? Often, it comes down to grades. Many students will work harder in order to earn a higher grade. Colleges want to see good grades. Parents want to see good grades. Grades are good, right? Unfortunately, some students are not motivated by grades. Cub Scouts and Girl Scouts Boys and girls in the scouting program earn patches for three things: progressing through the scouting program, attending a special event, or accomplishing a specific goal. The patches are a source of pride to the scout who earned them, and they are a way to show off what they have accomplished to others. The values of every organization change, and when that happens new badges are created to encourage members to gain those skills. The Use Of Badges In The Military The Scouts’ use of badges was borrowed from the military which has been utilizing badges for hundreds of years.

Video Game Achievements Badges from the video game Crysis – via MadMagnet Targets Specific targets. Open Badges: Portable Credentials for Learning by Bill Brandon. “Are badges frivolous, superficial, or worthless?

Open Badges: Portable Credentials for Learning by Bill Brandon

Will employers, job applicants, and providers use them or not? Time will tell, but what is certain is that the way is open to anyone who wants to learn almost anything and to do it at the time and location of their choosing. The means of certifying and documenting that learning are evolving now, and badges are becoming a viable alternative.” Disintermediation rolls on. The next target is diplomas, certifications, and other “official” records of learning, education, and skills and knowledge achievement. Credentialing initiatives In one development now underway, Mozilla and the MacArthur Foundation are working toward widespread recognition of a credentialing system that uses badges from providers, awarded directly to learners, and maintained and displayed by those learners, independent of employers, and publicly available.

What are badge-based credentials? How do these badges work? What organizations are interested in these systems? Summary. Grades Out, Badges In - College, Reinvented. Valve. This Video Game Is So Educational You Don’t Even Realize It. The term ‘gamification’ doesn’t do the new video game Ludwig justice. It takes the most cutting-edge graphics and couples them with some of the most important lessons a student needs. The creators of Ludwig delivered a TEDx talk (below) that unveils a bit more information on why and how they built the epic game. Most importantly, this video game is a glimpse into the future of video games. It’s certainly not the first but definitely not the last video game that makes learning, well, fun. Ludwig is currently trying to get listed on the popular Steam platform ( support it here if interested) where it could reach a much larger audience.

The Plot 2098. What The Game Is About The game tells the story of “Ludwig” – a small research robot who is on an important mission to find new forms of energy for the home planet of the Robotronics. But the game is available right now. TEDx Talk Game Trailer Screenshots. Playground Thursday. Digital badges show students' skills along with degree. September 11, 2012 WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — Digital badges, icons that represent academic achievements or skills smaller than a college degree, are an increasingly popular way for universities to acknowledge the breadth of student learning.

Digital badges show students' skills along with degree

Now Purdue University has developed a pair of mobile apps that make creating, awarding and displaying badges much easier. The apps, available online, are called Passport and Passport Profile . A video explaining how Passport works is available on YouTube. Kyle Bowen, director of informatics in Information Technology at Purdue, says badges are an exciting new concept that is being adopted across higher education. "Badges become a way to recognize learning in all of its forms," Bowen says.

"Many instructors are moving to new models of instruction, and Passport is a technology that supports many of those new models. " "Students learn in many ways and in a variety of settings while attending a university such as Purdue," McCartney says.