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- 1. Help us BTUK Update February 2014 Lucy Neale @lucydme #badgetheuk
- 3. 120 partners
- 4. Update Feb14 • New Badge Tools • National Badge Library Launched • Next steps - building currency & pathways
- 6. Makewaves is the 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.
- 19. “Badges have added value to teaching and learning at Roscoe Primary School by motivating and engaging our pupils…it has inspired pupils to try new things in order to be awarded a badge” Headteacher, Roscoe Primary School “I like badges – they are symbols of something you have done and are proud of.” Pupil
- 21. 50,000 badges awarded since Jan 2013 23,000 students have earned a badge from over 1000 schools Competition Winner Only UK Badge platform
- 25. #6 Findability
- 27. Help us BTUK Update February 2014 Lucy Neale @lucydme #badgetheuk
Editor's Notes
- DigitalMe is a social enterprise working with schools, charities, employers and platforms to create a new digital skills currency using Open Badges. We run Badge the UK, a Nominet Trust funded initiative to support the implementation of Open Badges across the UK
- What is BTUK – its about using open badges to bride the gap between schools, after schools clubs, employers – connecting young people with real opportunities for learning, training or work.2 strands:Working on specific case studies with partners – funded my nominet trust. To provide national badge library on mw – schools create badges, Stoking wider ecosystem - support people to create badges across many platforms e.g. moodle
- Currently 120 partners across the UK – employers, charities, networks of schools across the UKThese are all people who have fantastic endorsed learning programmes – teach computing skills like code club, encourage voting like bite the ballot, Volunteer programmes V inspired. Real disconnect between these programmes and schools – they find it hard to get into schools.What we hope with BTUK and mw is make it easier for schools to access these programmes to do is enable them to reach into school
- Safe school badge platform – makewaves. Used by 6000 schools globally
- Public Badge library launched – now possible to browse all the badges online and take and share them either as teachers or studentsBadge library with over 400 badges – teachers create them and share them with each other across the communitySome of these badges are created by partners which I’ll come onto later
- Teachers told us one thing they were struggling with was designing badges so created this badge designer
- Example of a badge mission that teachers can create
- Make it really clear what’s required to achieve the badge – students can easily add evidenceCan also see who is taking the badge and as a teacher I can see the progress made.
- As a learner I can easily see my badge mission I am working on, as well as the other badges I have completed.Pre-13 they can just convert their badge when they get old enough
- Learning about physical making by drawing animations offline then learning to build and programme an ardwino.
- Proud badge earner
- Beth from Technology will save us interviewed by kids talking about why open badges help them to teach young people tech.
- People always ask us where does the value come from – if anyone can create valueThis is how we understand itNext steps – from all of this partnership working we are beginning to better understand how we can begin to develop a currency around badges here in the UK
- Feedback and recognisiotn on a granular levelBadges as a great form of feedback – seen evidence of impact online on Makewaves
- Great feedback evidence of them trying new thingsTypically - we have seen children aged 11-14 want to collect badges and get recognition. Older pupils want to understand the extrinsic motivation – what value does the badge have in the real worldWe have commissioned research to unpick this further.
- Badges completely reimagine the way credentials are valued.Not about top down – awarding body accreditationDemocratising - Long tail model – about having thousands of organisations creating badges for niche interests
- Shows demand for badges – live community
- Building in value through trusted outside organisations – students and teachers both need this to engage
- Another way to look at building value – trust that someone builds over time by gaining a set of badges over timeBadges should be community driven – based on lots of micro transations. Badges that represent trust and positive behavioursArea we are investigating further at the moment
- Badge learning programmes need to be authentic and represent real learning – projects that connect to the outside world. Students want badges for roles over competencies – to help transfer
- Making people discoverable – connecting to jobs/opportuities/other people who have same interests
- Next steps – launch second wave of badgesWorking with telefonica and other orgs to look at stafff badges – way to build in recognition