Dr. Doug Belshaw Dynamic Skillset

@dajbelshaw

DIGITAL LITERACIES LEARNING PATHWAYS & OPEN BADGES

#thelearningconversation

https://youtu.be/XWxU__J6jlI

Morpeth

Dr. Doug Belshaw

@dajbelshaw hello@dynamicskillset.com

Who are you?

Teacher (History/ICT)

Jisc infoNet (OER, mobile learning,

digital literacies)

Director of E-Learning

Open Badges / Web Literacy

(Mozilla)

Consultant (Dynamic Skillset)

MA

Ed.D.

BACKSTORY

Structure

• Intro • Identifying (digital literacies) • Credentialing (badges) • Scaffolding (pathways) • Conclusion

Structure

• Intro • Identifying (digital literacies) • Credentialing • Scaffolding • Conclusion

1. What does it mean to be educated in the 21st century?

2. What does it mean to be digitally literate?

3. What actually is 'digital literacy'? ?

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DIGITAL LITERACY IS...

ONE DEFINITION TO RULE THEM ALL (and in the darkness bind them?)

DIGITAL LITERACY

DIGITAL LITERACIES

CONTEXT-DEPENDENT

DIGITAL LITERACIES

DIGITAL LITERACIES

DIGITAL LITERACIES

DIGITAL LITERACIES

:-(TOO HARD? GIVE UP?

META-ANALYSIS

THE 8 ELEMENTS OF DIGITAL LITERACIES

CoCommunicative

CuCultural

CgCognitive

CnConstructive

CiCivic

CrCreative

CfConfident

CtCritical

http://youtu.be/A8yQPoTcZ78

http://gum.co/digilit

(use code ‘worcester’ to get it free!)

http://dougbelshaw.com/ambiguity

Digital literacy is a condition, not a threshold.

Martin (2006)

““

WORK WITH OTHERS (don’t reinvent the wheel)

CO-CREATE DEFINITIONS

FOUR SKILLSETS

CoCommunicative

CuCultural

CgCognitive

CnConstructive

CiCivic

CrCreative

CfConfident

CtCritical

(skillsets/mindsets iteration by @MrTedP)

FOUR MINDSETS

CoCommunicative

CuCultural

CgCognitive

CnConstructive

CiCivic

CrCreative

CfConfident

CtCritical

http://digitalliteraci.es/wiki

Use my wiki! (these are M.Ed. students

from the Uni of Alaska)

DIGITAL LITERACIES

WEB LITERACY

Mozilla!

https://teach.mozilla.org/teach-like-mozilla/web-literacy

v1.5

Structure

• Intro • Identifying • Credentialing (badges) • Scaffolding • Conclusion

Digital badges have been around for ages

...but they’re difficult to verify and they’re easy to copy

Enter Open Badges! (or more accurately, the OBI)

Image CC BY-SA Kyle Bowen

This is how it works

A person or organisation issues a badge

Earner chooses to put it in their backpack

Collections of badges can be shared to unlock new opportunities and possibilities.

Some recent badges created in association with DigitalMe

Interoperable

welcometobusinesstown.tumblr.com

March 2015: • 14,000 issuers worldwide • ~2 million badges issued • ~350,000 badges sent to backpacks •~90,000 backpacks

How do you quantify value?

Progression

120 badge partners

Badge Design Canvas

digitalme.co.uk/badgecanvas

Structure

• Intro • Identifying • Credentialing • Scaffolding (pathways) • Conclusion

Skill tree from Path of Exile (an MMPORG)

Self

Peer Expert

Badge

Badge Badge

BADGE

Learning Pathways

Image CC BY-ND Bryan Mathers

Badge pathways

Cow paths?

Prescriptive learning pathways are those that are created ahead of time and chart a series of activities towards a pre-determined goal.

Descriptive learning pathways, on the other hand, are those that are created after learners have reached their goal. As the name suggests, they represent what has already taken place.

http://goo.gl/yB5FFB

(unfinished Mozilla whitepaper)

Image CC BY-ND Bryan Mathers

http://bryanmathers.com

Structure

• Intro • Identifying • Credentialing • Scaffolding • Conclusion

Learners are already doing their own thing. Let’s identify , scaffold, and credential that.

Image CC BY-ND Bryan Mathers

Let’s work together!

hello@dynamicskillset.com

Here: ask now or grab me later

Twitter: @dajbelshaw

Email: hello@dynamicskillset.com

Ask hard questions!

• http://badgealliance.org

• http://dynamicskillset.com

• http://badges.thinkoutloudclub.com

• http://digitalme.co.uk/badgecanvas

Useful links:http://gum.co/digilit

(code = ‘worcester’)