Use digital badges to recognize skills, supplement report cards, and manage equipment training access in maker education¶

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Description¶

The paper describes digital badges as serving to organize, communicate and display accomplishment and progress, with special application to maker-based classes. Badges recognize a skill learned or task accomplished, can supplement report cards, and can act like a credential system: displayed badges let teachers across a building and between grade levels know who is trained in what and who should be given access to what equipment.

Design Implications¶

Context¶

Requirements¶

• Students complete established requirements and then receive a digital image that can be displayed using some type of online presence

Constraints¶

• Some open badge systems take some technical skill to utilize and can be challenging to manage for classroom use

Target Learners¶

• K-12 students in maker education programs using expensive or dangerous equipment

Target Learning Goals¶

• Recognition of skills learned, collaboration, and safe independent tool use

Related Strategies¶

• Badges
• Micro Credentials

Examples¶

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Key Sources¶

• Lundberg, M., & Rasmussen, J. (2018). Foundational Principles and Practices to Consider in Assessing Maker Education. i-manager's Journal of Educational Technology, Vol. 14 No. 4, January - March 2018. https://eric.ed.gov/?id=EJ1179517