Webinar Slides, 5/29/14: Sarah Blattner, Badge Lead, TAMRITZ, shares background information about digital badges, an update on what is happening with digital badges in the Jewish and wider education landscape; a sharing of 3 Case Studies, examples from the TAMRITZ Badge Learning Network, featuring badges for student learning and badges for teacher professional development

1. Digital Badge Learning:
An Exploration of
Possibilities
Presented by Sarah Blattner,
Badge Lead, TAMRITZ
Introductory Webinar
May 29, 2014, Thursday

2. Nice to meet you…
Sarah Blattner
Founder & Executive Director
@tamritzlearning
#openbadges
sarah@tamritz.org

3. TAMRITZ is generously supported by
the Joshua Venture Group Dual
Investment Program and the AVI CHAI
Foundation.

4. “If we teach today as we
taught yesterday,
we rob our children of tomorrow.”
-John Dewey

5. How do youth interact
with digital media?
“Hanging
Out”
“Messing
Around”
“Geeking
Out”

6. Connected
Learning
Interest-powered
Peer-supported
Academically
oriented
#ConnectedLearning

7. Connectors in Connected Learning
Interest-Driven
Academically-Grounded
Peer Culture

8. Badges in Our Lives

9. Digital Badge Learning
Badges = visual representations of
a skill or achievement

10. What’s in a badge?
Issuing
Institution
Skills
Achieved
Time
Sensitive?
Artifacts
Meta Data

11. http://openbadges.org

12. Badges are …
• Feedback
• Multiple pathways for learning
• Learners’ stories via digital transcript
• Micro-credentials that are shareable
• Milestone markers
• Portable indications of achievements
and habits of learning
• A way to support personalized and
competency-based learning

13. A Badge is Better than an A+

14. Badges are not…

15. Life Cycle of a Badge
Issuer
Goal
Evidence
Consumer
Audience Feedback

16. Game Design // Learning Design

17. Game Design : Learning Design
• Create a “need to know”
• Offer spaces of possibility and low stakes
• Prototyping and honing instead of failure
• Shared knowledge
• Support multiple, overlapping pathways

18. Who is issuing badges?

19. TAMRITZ Badge Learning Network
Case Studies

20. How do I demonstrate kindness for
others?
How do I deal justly with others?

21. Krieger Schechter Day School
Wellness Curriculum

22. KSDS Wellness Badges

23. KSDS Wellness Badges
Soft Skills & Stealth Badges

24. Digital Age Teaching
Professional Development
• Grades 5-12 Teachers
• 45 Jewish Day School Teachers Summer of
2013; 6 schools
• Aims to level up skill sets in digital media and
learning
• Learn through new media
• Models badge learning possibiliites
• Badge-based community of practice
• Tinkering and playful learning celebrated

25. TAMRITZ ‘s Unique Taxonomy

26. Summer of Learning 2014
Kicks Off June 23rd!

27. TAMRITZ Badge Learning
Student Learning: Digital Citizenship

28. What badges would your students like to earn?
Learn more: http://tamritz.org/