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Student Digital Leaders Glyn Barritt, SSAT
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A grassroots movement has led to Student Digital Leadership initiatives operating in a number of UK schools, both at primary and secondary level. Until now there has been no mechanism to provide transferable recognition for the skills and achievements that students acquire in these roles. Mozilla's Open Badges technology offers an opportunity for addressing this, whereby students are able to collect badges for the roles they take on and display them on selected websites - for example, social networking profiles, job sites, online CVs and more .. The session will describe how the SDL initiative is operating in schools, including the roles that students typically take on, and the design and development of the badging framework that helps define each badge/role.
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Student Digital LeadersGlyn Barritt, SSAT
Student Digital Leaders
• Passion to help their school shape vision and strategy around the use of technology
• Eagerness to promote their school and their SDL activities – expanding network
• Eagerness to research new technologiesand train their teachers and peers
• SDL roles ensure appropriate and engaging technology use
BenefitsSch Embeds most effective technology across school lifeSch Maximises the impact of the ICT budget
Stu Develops leadership and specialist skillsStu Develops other 21st Century skills … Stu Flexibility & credibility in the jobs marketStu Important! Helps students bring ‘fun’ into learning!
Nat Co-construct curriculums to engage all students in relevant and enjoyable learning
Nat Work alongside teachers to lessen effects of new demands on their workloads
Nat Help narrow the gap between policy makers and those designing/delivering the curriculum
Nick … I feel trusted as a person
and I’m developing new skills
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Tim … My role gives me responsibility
and the ability for me to make a difference
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Vicky ..I am able to have my say about what happens with ICT in school
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Planning• What issues might SDLs help to address/overcome?
• Whole school initiative or piloted by certain classes?• How will you choose students for the roles?• What qualities will your SDLs need to demonstrate?
• What year groups might you approach first?
• How long will SDLs serve?
• How do you ensure continuity?
• Who in school will oversee SDLs & champion widely?
Initial training & Group ID• Listening and speaking– Active and sympathetic
• Asking for help– For themselves, others
• Communication skills– Peers, teachers, community
• Sharing and showcasing– SDLs continually moving foward
• Using and applying– Getting the most from tech for learning
• Reviewing and feedback
Joining a growing network• SSAT promotes at every given opportunity– Importance of student voice/impact in 21C learning where
students are encourage to co-construct schemes of work– Redesigning Schooling – encouraging school leaders &
classroom practitioners & student to shape education futures
• Extended outwards with help of social media– #dlchat on Twitter, every Thursday evening at 9pm
• See www.digitalleadernetwork.co.uk where our first pioneer teachers are sharing ideas & resources
• Join http://makewav.es/digitalleaders ...
SDL Accreditation• Remember those roles? Badges recognise achievement
• Digital badges can be displayed online!
• Mozilla Open Badges take the concept further
• Badge the UK, DigitalMe, Makewaves,Mozilla and SSAT working with teachers,students & partner organisations on an accreditation scheme for SDLs
Mozilla Open Badges• Top global brands have come together
to support a new way to recognise development of 21C skills
• Visual representations of learning, achievements, skills, interests & competencies
• They can represent hard and soft skills, peer assessment and stackable lifelong learning
“Over 70% of employers want employability skills to become a top education priority.” The CBI
Mozilla Open Badges cont’d • Free open global technical
standard for recognising achievement
• Transferrable: badges from different sources are collated in one ‘backpack’
• Badges can be displayed onsocial networking profiles, job sites, websites …
• Badges are information-richwith details of achievement,criteria, evidence, issuer
Badges are info rich!
Metadata ‘baked’ into the badge permanently: description, criteria, evidence
Value of badges in the rigour of how they are earned …
Growing number of employers, colleges and universities endorsing badges = new opportunities for young people
Doug Belshaw is Web Literacy Lead at the Mozilla Foundation; he offers a great explanation of Open Badges http://is.gd/PJMqRp
What do students think?
“Online badges are a great way to
showcase what you can do, inside and
outside school”
“They are great to have on
your CV”
“They help to motivate students to do more, not just in the curriculum but outside in the wider world .. ”
“Makes you want to achieve more and
get more out of yourself ….” “I would put my badge on social networking sites .. ”
“If it’s going to be beneficial for getting a job, then someone could look at your profile and see that you’ve done all these wonderful things .. “
• Students are now contributing to the digital leaders network on Makewav.eshttp://makewav.es/digitalleaders
• First three national SDL badges are now available to earn .. more on the way!
• Makewav.es offers technology for teachers to design their own badges
• U-13s cannot earn Mozilla Open Badgesbut Makewav.es has conversion technology
• Other platforms and plugins offer badging technology elsewhere
Makewav.es badges
• Badges have disruptive potential in the world of accreditation … not just for students but for teachers undergoing professional development too!
• SSAT Speed Learning attendees & presenters are claiming badges to accredit their professionaldevelopment at these eventsaround the country
Badges for teachers too!
