Social discussion of CS in K-12

[katrina.kennett AT gmail.com]

Hi Charles! Someone who has helped me think about games and education is Scott Nicholson - http://www.scottnicholson.com/ - he focuses a little less on badges and more on various types of play and learning that games support. He writes about games in different spaces (libraries, classrooms, online) and uses the term “gamification” often - like this one on gamification techniques.

The Digital Media Lab also published a working paper in 2011 about badges that might one to look through. Their conferences in 2014 and 2015 have a few papers on badges (if you change the year in the URL you can go back and see some conversation trajectories). 

Excited to hear how your tinkering/prototyping/experimenting goes, 

ksk

Katrina Kennett

Literacy & Language, Doctoral Student

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 

Education Resources Consortium, Consulting Practitioner 

kennettenglish.blogspot.com // @katrinakennett

On Aug 20, 2015, at 9:56 AM, Charles Schultz <sacrophyte AT gmail.com> wrote:

Good day, Shifters,

I am keen to learn what you all think about online badges (ie, openbadges.org). During the fall I am a part-time teacher at Parkland, and I am seriously considering using badges to signify completions of projects (#pbl). Are these just a passing fad, or do they have viable merit in the education profession?

What I like about them is that it forces me, as an instructor, to "packetize" the content of the class in such a way that it makes sense to the world at large. It is not much different than leveling up on games (and hence the whole gamitization historical context), or gaining "achievements" that unlock new characters, attributes or accessories.

Toughts and comments are appreciated. :)

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Charles Schultz

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