Tag Archives: badges
The Badges of Oz
Almost a year ago I wrote a post about being a “skeptical evangelist” when it comes to the uses of badges in learning. This was spurred, in large part, by a workshop run by Mitch Resnick at DML2012 that was critical of the focus on badges. This year Resnick was back, as part of a […]
Posted in Research, Teaching, Technology Also tagged anti-learning technology, Appalachian trail, Bill Gates, Dorothy, Dorothy Gale, Heraldic badge, Kansas, magician, Mitch Resnick, Napoleon, Oz, Salmon Kahn, Scarecrow, technology of motivation, Tin Woodman, Wizard of Oz 2 Comments
Re-Presenting Badges
Yes, it’s another badge post. Feel free to skip, or take a look at some of the other badge-related stuff I’ve posted earlier to get some background. One of my earliest questions, asked a couple of years ago, about badges and the Open Badge Infrastructure is whether you could put badges into the infrastructure that […]
Posted in Research, Teaching, Technology Also tagged API, badge systems, Facebook, Fitbit, Four Square, helper site, Heraldic badge, OAuth, twitter 2 Comments
Reddit, Course Discussion, and Badges
This semester I am using a community on Reddit to run my course. I’m certainly not the first to do this. Here, for example, is a subreddit for a Japanese language course, part of the whole University of Reddit project. Using existing social software for course management is also nothing new. The code that runs […]
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