Educational badges
Introduction
Educational badges allow to "tag" all sorts of elements of a learning environment, e.g. learners, teachers, pedagogy. A batch can represent all sorts of information. For example, it could summarize achievements, opinions, interests, etc.
Badges can be physical, graphics within print text, elements of web pages, etc. Web backges can be machine readable, e.g. be designed for information harvesting. Others can include links (such as the MediaWiki page at the bottom of this page).
See also:
- gamification (gamification usually does include batches)
McCrea's Pedagogy badges
Peps Mccrea (University of Brighton) and Jeremy Burton, in the 2012 JISC JISC elevator contest, proposed pedagogy badges. Their purpose are:
- Become more aware of their current e-learning and blended practice
- Become more aware of their desired practice, and how this differs from the above
E Become more aware of the pedagogical affordances of technology for teaching and learning
- Have better discussions about how we teach
- Change the way we teach
(retrieved March 14, 2012)
The initial proposal (to be refined) was made through a video of which we should a screen capture below. To the right is the initial sketch of a palette allowing to describe a pedagogy and to the left, an example activity tagged with some of these badges.
Comment
I like the idea of creating a simple palette of icons for describing pedagogical scenarios, i.e. some compromise between over-simplistic big categories and complex learning taxonomies à la DialogPlus. Of course, this idea must be tested first (1) with respect to its expressiveness, (2) whether normal teachers can use it and (3) and whether others could read the icons. After usability is ok, it's in the open whether it could be adopted or not. - Daniel K. Schneider 13:44, 14 March 2012 (CET)
Links
- Pedagogy Badges: disrupting how we teach March 5, 2012 by peps mccrea
- Web badge (Wikipedia)