Digital Media and Learning Competition Workshop 2012, Day 1, Session 3
Session begins at 2:30 in. Panel: Badges from design to adoption Introductions by Cathy Davidson and Carla Casilli, Open Badges Project Lead/Learning Group Badges and Assessment: The Myths, the Models and the Opportunities Erin Knight, Senior Learning Director, Mozilla Foundation Featuring an overview of the assessment landscape plus a deep dive on opportunities and approaches for assessment with badges and badge system design. Special attention on embedded, peer, and self assessment. Implementing Badges In Organizations: Amazon.com to Inside Jobs Todd Edebohls, CEO, Inside Jobs Helping organization members accept, embrace, and evangelize digital badges can be easy. Todd Edebohls will share how Amazon.com's ten years of digital badge for employees and customers shaped his view for Inside Jobs and its career exploration site insidejobs.com. Let's Issue Badges (Technically)! Chris McAvoy, Open Badges Product Lead, Mozilla Foundation Chris McAvoy will talk about how to issue a badge with a text editor and a web server to cover the bare essentials, then talk about other issuing options, including Wordpress. Realizing the Common Core: Investing in Teacher Learning & Leadership Barnett Berry, Founder and President of the Center for Teaching Quality (CTQ), Inc. Participants will explore the impact the Common Core State Standards are having on teaching and learning and identify ways to transform the profession through badging. We will explore how teachers are teaching to the Common Core today — including a look at pedagogical snapshots — and the implications for education entrepreneurs now and in the future.
