Slidedeck from a session at the RealSchool Summer Sandbox, 2013, featuring background information on digital badge learning and a case study for badge learning design

1. Badge-Empowered
Learning
Facilitated by: Sarah Blattner
Summer Sandbox 2013
RealSchool

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

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

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

5. Principles
Interest-powered
Peer-supported
Academically
oriented

6. Badges in Our Lives

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

8. http://openbadges.org

10. A Badge is Better than an A+

11. Game Design : Learning Design
Image by domnit
Leonid Domnitser

12. Game Design : Learning Design
Magnifying Glass designed by
Gwenaelle georget from the Noun Project
?

13. Image by Rebecca Siegel
Grongar photo stream
Design
Evaluate
Prototype

14. Game Design : Learning Design
Photo by Vlad Genie

15. Image by skyler817

18. Case Study:
Novel, 1984 by George Orwell
Begin with an essential question or a
“driving question” that frames the learning:
• Provocative
• Open ended
• Goes to heart of discipline or topic
• Challenging
• Can arise from real-world dilemmas
• Grounded in academic outcomes
From the Online Resource for PBL at http://www.pbl-
online.org/driving_question/dqexplore/dqexplore1.html

19. Case Study:
Novel, 1984 by George Orwell
Google Doc:
http://bit.ly/1a6dGg
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20. What comes up?

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