Scaling Up Badging

Scaling Up Badging In a recent professional learning workshop (at #MVCollider), our team made new strides in the pursuit of badging and micro-credentialing. 3 significant insights have got our team thinking. The first insight revolves around how to create a badge using the 6 components of a badge. A second strand fuses badges with vertical learning progressions. The third one envisions taxonomy or a framework for organizing badges and ‘permission’ for ‘local level’ badge building by anyone in the learning community without diluting the quality of the overall badging program. Build a Badge At the start of the session, participants […]

MVIFI Introduces Collider Conference

MVIFI Introduces Collider Conference Yesterday, Mount Vernon spent a half day introducing a new, in-house approach to professional learning: Collider. The new MVIFI nucleus team, wearing their sweet new ‘mechanic’ shirts, led the charge. More personal reflections coming soon. Meanwhile, here is a list of all sessions/topics and Jim Tiffin’s storify of major tweets and insights… List of Workshops and Sessions/Topics Jim Tiffin highlights the key moments via twitter via Storify I am proud of the Middle School teachers who led several sessions and took an active role as participants.

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