Identifying, scaffolding, and credentialing skills in an ever-changing digital environment

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Dr. Doug Belshaw Dynamic Skillset

@dajbelshaw

#celt15http://bit.ly/celt15db

AbstractHow do we identify, scaffold, and credential skills in an ever-changing digital environment? In this keynote, Doug Belshaw will discuss work he began at Mozilla around Open Badges, as well as the findings from his doctoral thesis on The Essential Elements of Digital Literacies. Doug will argue that digital literacies are plural, context-dependent, and socially negotiated. He will give practical examples of ways digital skills can be scaffolded through badge-based learning pathways, and show how colleagues can get started immediately after the keynote!

Dr. Doug Belshaw

@dajbelshaw hello@dynamicskillset.com

Who are you?

Teacher (History/ICT)

Jisc infoNet (OER, mobile learning,

digital literacies)

Director of E-Learning

Open Badges / Web Literacy

(Mozilla)

Consultant (Dynamic Skillset)

Backstory

Structure

• Intro • Identifying • Credentialing • Scaffolding • Conclusion

Structure

1. What does it mean to be educated in the 21st century?

2. What does it mean to be digitally literate?

3. What actually is 'digital literacy'? ?

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DIGITAL LITERACY IS...

ONE DEFINITION TO RULE THEM ALL (and in the darkness bind them?)

DIGITAL LITERACY

DIGITAL LITERACIES

CONTEXT-DEPENDENT

DIGITAL LITERACIES

:-(TOO HARD? GIVE UP?

META-ANALYSIS

THE 8 ELEMENTS OF DIGITAL LITERACIES

CoCommunicative

CuCultural

CgCognitive

CnConstructive

CiCivic

CrCreative

CfConfident

CtCritical

http://youtu.be/A8yQPoTcZ78

http://gum.co/digilit

(use code ‘gimme10’ for 10% off)

http://dougbelshaw.com/ambiguity

Digital literacy is a condition, not a threshold.

Martin (2006)

““

WORK WITH OTHERS (don’t reinvent the wheel)

CO-CREATE DEFINITIONS

FOUR SKILLSETS

CoCommunicative

CuCultural

CgCognitive

CnConstructive

CiCivic

CrCreative

CfConfident

CtCritical

(skillsets/mindsets iteration by @MrTedP)

FOUR MINDSETS

CoCommunicative

CuCultural

CgCognitive

CnConstructive

CiCivic

CrCreative

CfConfident

CtCritical

http://digitalliteraci.es/wiki

Use my wiki! (these are M.Ed. students

from the Uni of Alaska)

DIGITAL LITERACIES

WEB LITERACY

Mozilla!

https://teach.mozilla.org/teach-like-mozilla/web-literacy

Structure

Digital badges have been around for ages

...but they’re difficult to verify and they’re easy to copy

Enter Open Badges! (or more accurately, the OBI)

Image CC BY-SA Kyle Bowen

This is how it works

A person or organisation issues a badge

Earner chooses to put it in their backpack

Collections of badges can be shared to unlock new opportunities and possibilities.

Some recent badges created with DigitalMe

Interoperable

welcometobusinesstown.tumblr.com

March 2015: • 14,000 issuers worldwide • ~2 million badges issued • 342,300 badges sent to backpacks • 88,585 backpacks

How do you quantify value?

Progression

120 badge partners

Badge Design Canvas

digitalme.co.uk/badgecanvas

Structure

Skill tree from Path of Exile (an MMPORG)

Peer Expert

Badge Badge

Learning Pathways

Image CC BY-ND Bryan Mathers

Badge pathways

Cow paths?

Prescriptive learning pathways are those that are created ahead of time and chart a series of activities towards a pre-determined goal.

Descriptive learning pathways, on the other hand, are those that are created after learners have reached their goal. As the name suggests, they represent what has already taken place.

http://goo.gl/yB5FFB

(unfinished Mozilla whitepaper)

Structure

Learners are already doing their own thing. Let’s identify , scaffold, and credential that.

Image CC BY-ND Bryan Mathers

Let’s work together!

hello@dynamicskillset.com

Now: ask now or grab me later

Twitter:@dajbelshaw

Email: hello@dynamicskillset.com

Ask hard questions!

• http://openbadges.org

• http://dynamicskillset.com

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