2. Aim of Session:
• Find out more about Mozilla Open Badges
• Explore ways they can be used to accredit
e-safety and 21st Century skills for students
and teachers
• Leave with a toolkit for creating & awarding
your own badges in school
3. Top brands from around
the world have come
together to support a
new way to digitally
recognise skills
4. “Over 70% of employers want
employability skills to become a top
education priority.”
The CBI
10. DISPLAY SIT ES
personal web site
social networking
profiles
WordPress / Tumblr
job sites
Unlike digital
badges, Open
Badges can be
displayed
across the web
11. A growing number
of
Employers, Univers
ities and Colleges
recognise and
endorse
badges, providing
new opportunities
for young people
Find out more at
openbadges.org
14. Badge the UK
Badge the UK will:
Help employers & teachers create badges to
recognise skills in their specialist area
Provide a safe, moderated web platform for
children, young people & teachers to discover, earn
and display badges
Build employer and further education partnerships
which provide real opportunities for badge earners
Enable young people to display their badges across
the web by supporting Mozilla's Open Badges
standard
25. Badge design canvas guide
Download canvases at www.digitalme.co.uk/badgetheuk
26. 1. Audience
Primary &
secondary age
(Open Badges for
13+)
Teachers
Teachers
Other pupils
Technology
companies
Colleges /
Universities
Stand out digital
CV
Access to software
& hardware
Days out of school
presenting
Recognise genuine
learning
Industry
recognition
Identify talent
Staff engagement
Technology sector
companies
Universities /
college
Existing db
Conferences
Makewaves
Endorser channels
Teacher & peer
Monitored by
DigitalMe
27. 2. Components
Digital Leader Explorer Badge
• Learn to use software /
hardware
• Knowledge of main
functions
• Ideas of how it could be
applied to solve a problem
• Working independently
• Resilience
• Self Confidence
• Create and deliver a
presentation on technology
discovered
• Field questions from group
• Share
presentation online
• Teacher / snr peer
confirms
presentation by
awarding the
badge
28. 3. Badge pathways
Explorer: Independently explore & share
Reactor: Responds to a brief, applies tech to solve a
problem
Project: Works as part of a team on extended project
Sub badges e.g. presenter, coder, help
desk, ambassador (three earned for each badge)
29. 4. Resources
- Staff time: develop endorser
relationships, presentations, training, create support
materials, fund raising
- Badge issuing platform (www.makewav.es in this
case)
- Wordpress, Moodle / other Open Badge displayers
- Expenses
39. Showcase all badges on
your own profile page
Display any Open Badge
alongside Makewaves and
partner badges
Embed the display panel in
your school website or
Wordpress blog
Display Badges
44. Help us Badge the UK
We are looking for
schools, organisations and
employers
Find out more and register at
www.digitalme.co.uk/badgetheuk
hello@digitalme.co.uk
(00 44) 113 245 6445
Editor's Notes
Im from Digitalme – organisation which creates PBL programs which use social media to develop skills and increase life chances. You might know us for safe. Worked with 1000s of schools and seen real impact however always had challenge of capturing these skills – open badges provides a potantial solution
And a group of people you’ll recognise have got together to create badges which start to recognise all the achievements of young people using Open Badges
And employers are getting more vocal about skills they’re looking for, many teachers are frustrated too, they need a way to recognise all of students learning…
Open badges is a new open stadard designed to capture and represent skills across the web. Designed by mozilla who make firefox. Learning is often siloed, formal qualifications dont represent all skills. Disconnect with world of work.
Provide a more granular way to capture skills – mini-credentials. Any one can create, earn and award a badge – students, peers, teachers, parents
How does it work? Like a cake.
Anyone can create and issue a badge
They can be displayed anywhere are across the web – important difference between digital badge and open badge
Aim of badges is to unlock opportunities – either jobs or training but also just give young people the confidence to successfully transfer into the world of work.
At Digitalme we were fortunate enough to win the DML competition 12 months ago to look at how to design badges. We have now been supported by Nominet to bring badge expertise and look at connecting employers with learning using badges over the next 2 years.
As part of badge the UK we want to create Safe badges for teachers and students to reinforce their esafety knowledge. We are also working with other partners to design badges that can recognise a whole range of 21st Century Skills for example Student Digital Leaders
Once of our programmes – esafetyfocussed. Supported by Nominet – used by over 2500 nationwide. Resources for primary and secondary
Life skills just like cycling proficiency – teach skills in a protected environment so young people are more equipped to deal with issues independantly
How it works – 10 activities across 2 levels. Free downloadable resources and online network. There is a version of the resources for years 7&8 and peer tutoring resources for older students to help younger pupils. Older pupils more motivated by siblings at risk
The resourecs contain teacher giudes e.g. how to create a safe personal profile? Connect and comment, share media online. They have discussion points and actvitiy guides as well as pupil self assessment statements
Online video resources for schools who have signed up to the network (free) Secondary aged videos coming soon
What you receive!
Students who take on a leadership role in their schools.Challenge – design a badge for recognising digital/21st century skills in your school either for teachers or students. What are the skills & behviours that all students and teachers should have, how can they achieve these and evidence these?
- Simple but series questions need to answer, we thought it would be good to take a canvas approach, visualise the whole badge design- Step by Step building blocks to coming up with a badge idea
Three perspectives: Pathways through your badgesMapping to othersPathway to employment / further education
Local do internally, regional / national work with a designer!! Brand is importantThe badge canvas provides a design brief, that’s everything a designer would as you – perhaps some more details about the users / audience but mostely there-
