Geoscience Education in the Boy Scouts of America

Hintz, R. S.

doi:10.5408/09-192.1

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“…Digital badges seem to be a metaphorical and more flexible extension of recognition practices such as the merit badges used by the Boy Scouts association around the globe (Hintz, 2009). The merit badges highlight the achievement of the scout in terms of a clearly defined skill or knowledge set demonstrated at an established standard or level of practice, a model that suits the educational context especially well.…”

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Digital badges in education

Gibson¹,

Ostashewski²,

Flintoff³

et al. 2013

Educ Inf Technol

323

107

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Digital badges provide new affordances for online educational activities and experiences.When used with points and leaderboards, a badge can become a gamification element allowing learners to compete with themselves or others, and to know how close they are to accomplishing a goal and acquiring its accompanying reputation. In this role, badges motivate continued engagement, which increases time on task and supports skill acquisition through performance. Learning outcomes signified by badges can also be displayed in an e-portfolio or on web sites and are highly transportable to social media sites. In this role they summarize achievement and signal accomplishment. With these characteristics, digital badges have the potential to become an alternative credentialing system, providing visible recognition in digital symbols that link directly via metadata to validating evidence of educational achievements in public displays. This paper will trace the brief history of digital badges, define what they are, give examples of their use, and discuss their educational affordances.

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Section: Origins Of Badgesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Digital badges in education

Gibson¹,

Ostashewski²,

Flintoff³

et al. 2013

Educ Inf Technol

323

107

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“…Users can accrue points to move through different levels, gaining badges and early access to new Google features. The concept of gaining badges could be seen as an extension of the worldwide Girl Guiding & Scout movement, who regularly award badges to its members for completing a variety of different activities or skills (Hintz 2009). Primary school children might be given an achievement sticker for good behaviour or a piece of work.…”

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Nostalgia, gamification and staff development – moving staff training away from didactic delivery

Foster

Warwick²

2018

Research in Learning Technology

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There is growing evidence that incorporating games into education supports active learning and student participation. With that in mind, we created a staff development session that involved a playful learning activity, in which attendees experienced 90's nostalgia, whilst working on an important learning and teaching issue. Based on the British game show, The Crystal Maze, The 'Crys-TEL' maze required attendees to complete a number of challenges as a group to attempt to 'solve' a pressing learning and teaching issue. Using gamification techniques, defined as game design elements in non-game settings, attendees experienced different delivery styles, whilst always working towards the learning and teaching issue they had been asked to consider. In a nod to the original Crystal Maze game show, attendees worked in groups to score points for completing various tasks. The two groups with the most points competed against each other in the final to collect crystals, and ultimately conquer the 'maze'. This article will describe the journey we took from the initial concept through to the delivery of the session, and our reflections and proposed future developments of the Crys-TEL Maze.

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