Improving Literacy Instruction through Striving Readers Comprehensive Literacy Grants
Digital Badges and Information Literacy Instruction
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Digital Badges and Information Literacy
InstructionAndrew Battista
ALA 2014 Annual Meeting LITA Games Making Interest Group
June 29, 2014
Academically Adrift
• Limited college learning
• Grade inflation• No measurable
acquisition of critical thinking skills
Flawed Measures
Multiple choice tests condense learning into a finite set of choices, one of which is ostensibly “correct”
Demonstrate an understanding of the major policies that form the foundation of social welfare
Identify populations-at-risk and describe the dynamics whereby such populations come to the oppressed and discriminated against..
Apply critical thinking skills to the analysis of issues of social and economic justice.
Describe the roles of social work in relation to social policy, including the role of the NASW Code of Ethics in social welfare policy practice.Analyze policies in terms of
their influence in the lives of citizens and clients of the social welfare system, with special attention to such diverse groups as children, women, racial and ethnic minorities, the elderly, gays and lesbians.
Read, analyze and evaluate social welfare policies and programs
Broken Assessment
We will not eliminate grade-grubbing until we change our current educational system
•Treated as secondary to classroom learning
•Not attached to grades•Limited contact with
students•Duplication of
instruction efforts
Information Literacy Instruction
Badge Initiatives
Badges contribute to, identify, recognize, measure, and account for new skills wherever and whenever learning takes place
Learning Management Systems
• Design badge systems
• Assign to specific users
• Transfer achievements across courses
Infrastructure
1. Department or Program
UC Davis Sustainable Agriculture and Food Systems
SWK 203 Introduction to Social Welfare and Social Work
SWK 350 Introduction to Social Work Practice
SWK 355 Research in Social Welfare
SWK 373 Social Policy
SWK 420 Social Work Practice with Communities
SWK 455 Social Work Practicum
Social Justice Badge
Census Data Badge
Credential Achievements
2. Ongoing System of Rewards
Char Booth, Claremont Libraries Lemontree, University of Huddersfield, UK
3. Credit-Bearing Course
Curation Culture: Information Literacy, Brain Science, Social Media
● One-credit● No grades
Platforms Literacies
List Criteria• Create a Twitter account with a public profile• Establish topically-oriented lists that have
descriptions• Create multiple lists that span disparate spheres• Follow other users and their lists• Follow and save hashtag searches that are
meaningful to you (e.g., #curationculture)• Establish principles for consuming information on
Twitter• Differentiate between Twitter’s various functions,
retweets, favorites, replies, and show how you use each of them
Structure Recursiveness
Encourage the mastery of concepts by rewarding students who revisit earlier learning
Incorporate Fun Elements
• Create hidden achievements
• Instill elements of surprise to enhance the game
Improvement
• Establish game environment
• Downplay competition
• Find middle ground
Andrew BattistaInformation Literacy and Reference Librarian, University of Montevallo
E mail: [email protected]: @rawdeal85Blog: http://curationculture.org
Slides: http://tiny.cc/gamesmaking
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