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Slate Magazine For Years We’ve Been Telling Kids to Sit Still and Pay Attention. That’s All … Slate Magazine Today’s educational technology often presents itself as a radical departure from the tired practices of traditional instruction.
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You may have heard the term ‘Open Badges’ before. You may also have heard the phrase ‘Gamification’. Confused? Don’t be, they are quite new and starting to become used more and more in Education so it’s only a matter of time before you will be more familiar.
Open Badges are essentially digital online badges that recognise your skills and competence in different topics. They are being used in Gamified teaching to represent milestones or achievements in an alternative way to reward learners for good work. They are nothing new in commercial terms and you may have been earning them on computer games you play or in certain shops with reward schemes.
Once you have proven your skills you are given a web link which allows you to download your digital badge to your ‘Digital Backpack’. This is your online CV of sorts that contains all your badges, who awarded them and why. You can display your pages on personal sites or send to potential employers. Open Badges are set to be quite big globally and already major organisations are looking to use them to accredit staff competencies in certain areas such as CPD. Furthermore with a rise in online courses providers such as the Open University are already exploring using Open Badges for their free courses.
In education Open Badges are starting to take hold. Newer versions of Moodle now directly support Open Badges and these can be awarded directly from courses for achieving assignments, tasks or activities. This can be a clever way of providing formative feedback as well as creating an environment that enhances stretch and challenge and differentiation.
One current good practice case study is from Borders College. Click here for the full case study
Below are a range of resources for further reading on the use of Open Badges
- Mozilla – http://www.openbadges.org/
- Badge Designer – https://www.openbadges.me/
- Moodle Open Badges – http://docs.moodle.org/25/en/Badges
E-Learning can be one of those subjects that can take a bit of time to get your head around. It’s probably easier to switch off and say ‘Oh, ill write that down to try later’. But in practice we get distracted, a learner needs us, ‘that’ deadline is looming, I need to check my emails and so on. So we forget what we wanted to do in the first place.
Using E-Learning doesn’t have to be longwinded or require a new degree to use effectively. There are times where just doing one thing can be the catalyst for that avalanche of productivity which opens your mind to new areas of inquiry. Perhaps just making one small change in your session suddenly engages that learner who previously was not giving it their all. Perhaps just trying something new or taking a risk, helps you realise the true range of your knowledge and you may surprise yourself. Perhaps doing that one thing is enough to make that learner come to you at the end of your session and say ‘Wow, thanks! I really enjoyed that session.’
So it sounds simple, but one thing can you do today to make instant impact in your teaching, learning and assessment with E-Learning. Here are few ideas:
Do a Poll Everywhere quiz – It takes 30 seconds to go to the www.polleverywhere.com site and click ‘Create a Poll’. Type in a question, select some answers and display. You learners can whip out their Mobile Devices and respond. Maybe you use a starter? Maybe you check understanding? Maybe you just ask who loves Gangnam Style? Instantly you have done something different, fun and engaging.
#GoogleSearch – You may have heard of ‘Twitter’, ‘Hashtags’ and ‘Trending’. A hashtag is used on Twitter to provide a link to a particular category or conversation. Typing a hashtag such as #elearning into a Google Search will provide a link to all the current tweets, links and resources about E-learning. This can be a great way to start specific subject research or introduce a new tool to learners in s straight forward way. Try it with a ‘#yoursubject’
Mobile Device – Ok. So this one may take some more thought and predictions of the outcome. Many mobile devices can do a range of tech related tasks from typing text, a calculator, taking a picture/video, recording audio or playing music/audio books. Very simply, learners could use their phones to take pictures of work they have completed, record a discussion in group work, make notes during a task or listen to an mp3 you prepared earlier.
Ask your learners? – Sounds simple. Just ask your learners. What do they want to use? What can they use? Perhaps they could do a mini presentation on some things they like to use? The trick is to facilitate and if there is something you don’t know ask them to show you. Learners are partners in learning. It’s not all one way so this could also be a good way to gain learner trust as they feel responsible for something important in the lesson.
Pinterest is an excellent Social Media type of website. It allows users to share a range of content in a highliy visual way. Users ‘Pin’ content to ‘boards’ which can then be shared with others freely. Furthermore other users can comment on what they see to give ideas, likes or feedback.
It is increasingly being used in Education for a range of uses including Planning, Assessments, Content Curation, Blogging Events and many more.
Take a look at the inforgraphic below for some ideas to get started the head off to Pinterest to get started.
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