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Re-Designing Learning For Democracy
Ann Pendleton-Jullian, the architect and educational redesigner, notes that: “Design has the capacity to shape contexts as frames for things to happen.” My excitement at being part of the connected learning movement and the Digital Media and Learning initiative sponsored by the John D. and Catherine T.… more
Why We Need Badges Now: A Bibliography of Resources in Historical Perspective
It was something over a year ago when we first began talking about badges as a powerful new tool for identifying and validating the rich array of people’s skills, knowledge, accomplishments, and competencies that happens everywhere and at every age. That’s when we decided that this year the Digital Media and Learning Competition would be dedicated to an array of competitions on badging. I remember when we started writing, blogging, talking, speaking, and in other ways trying to create a conversation around badges as an alternative mode of assessment, people would look at me like… more
Standardizing Human Ability
Here’s a thought experiment. Let’s try to imagine a society (there were lots of them before modernity) where there is no interest in measuring educational success. Let’s imagine a society where the only goal of teaching (it’s a high bar) is to help every child master what they need in order to lead the most fulfilling life they are capable of leading—productive, creative, responsible, contributing to their own well-being and that of their society. No grades. No tests. Just an educational system based on helping each child to find her or his potential for leadin… more