Some thoughts… 1. I commented on one of the things that impressed me most about the plans for Hwb was how it joined the dots between a number of existing plans and technologies. 2. The previous week the National Qualifications Review recommended that: R28 The Welsh Government should work with awarding organisations and stakeholders to […]
Badges update
Last term I spoke at the Teachnocamps Bring and Brag about an idea I’d had to move the KS3 ICT lessons into an Open Badges style environment, where students where free to work through tasks and earn badges as they went. It was agreed with managers that we’d trial the idea with yr 7, but […]
#openbadges / #digitialstudies / ICT update
I don’t think I’ve been prouder of receiving any tweet than the one that appeared yesterday from Mark Clarkson: This blog by @davestacey is making#digitalbadges harder to resist (although the scope of his vision still scares me!).http://is.gd/PY6rU9 No one’s ever been scared by the scope of my vision before! I quite like it… Anyway, I […]
How digital badges could revolutionise ICT teaching – a plan.
There’s a growing buzz at the moment around digital badges, and I’m going to try and put down my thoughts, specifically on the following: Why I was initially so negative, and why I now think I was wrong One possible vision for the delivery of ICT embedding student choice and badges. I first came across […]