M4: Public sharing is automatic | Design Principles Documentation Project

Public sharing is automatic:

Some projects chose to make badges earned in the system public by default. This has different consequences for motivation than when students can choose when and how to share their collections.

For more ways of how badge systems have chosen to display badges, please see the following page: learners can choose to display.

Youth Digital Filmmaker Badge System

Posted on March 27, 2014 by Nate Otto — No Comments ↓

The Youth Digital Filmmaker Badge System won a grant through the Digital Media and Learning competition to teach Philadelphia students skills involved with the various aspects of making short films and connect this content to their English/Language Arts learning. The program was designed as an Expanded Learning Opportunity (ELO) that ran outside of schools with the ability for students to receive formal “core” school credit for their work.

Recognizing Principles	Assessing Principles	Motivating Principles	Studying Principles
R2: Align badges to standards R3: Have experts issue badges R4: Seek external backing R9: Award formal academic credit for badges	A1: Use leveled badge systems A3: Align assessments to standards A6: Use formative functions of assessment A9: Promote hard and soft skill sets	M1: Provide incentives M2: Recognize identities M4: Display badges to the public M8: Use different types of assessment M11: Stimulate competition

Digital Badges are web-enabled credentials of learning or accomplishment. -Erin Knight, director of the Badge Alliance

Badges contain detailed claims about learning, links to actual evidence of learning, and they're shareable over the web. -Dan Hickey, DPD Project Lead Investigator

To me, digital badges represent the bridge between formal learning & informal structures. -Alex Halavais, DML research competition winner

Open Badges can help people tell a verifiable story about their accomplishments. -Nate Otto, DPD Project coordinator

From a post that served as core inspiration to the DPD Project:
Regardless of where you start, it’s more than likely you’ll end up somewhere other than your intended destination. That’s okay. Systems are living things, and your badge system needs to be flexible. You must embrace a bit of chaos in its design. -Carla Casilli, Director of Design + Practice at the Badge Alliance

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