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Civics, digital badges and alternative assessment:

Preparing students to be engaged citizens

this presentations is based on a working paper by the Center for Information and Research on Civic Learning and Engagement (CIRCLE).

It can be found here:

http://www.civicyouth.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/WP_77_Sullivan.pdf

What are digital badges?

Credentials

We welcome your thoughts on digital badges, ePortfolios, performance-based assessments, games and other strategies to recognized and affirm civic skills, knowledge and dispositions (values, attitudes and beliefs) on the related blog post here:

http://www.civicyouth.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/WP_77_Sullivan_Final.pdf

like a degree, certificate, report cards

http://www.civicyouth.org/?p=5406

Represent Skills & Knowledge

Don’t Stand Alone

minute and comprehensive

need assessment, infrastructure, and

understanding to work

Performance-based

K-12 Social Studies in Washington State - http://bit.ly/Vm56q8

Rubrics

Generation Citizen - http://www.generationcitizen.org/

American Association of Colleges & Universities - http://bit.ly/ZUXbmo

ePortfolios

Loyola University - http://bit.ly/Z9ZJYU

Games & Simulations

Tennessee's Project Citizen -http://tccle.org/projectcitizen.html

iCivics - http://www.icivics.org

Civics

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Alternative Assessments

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BETTER??

Community PlaneIt - http://www.communityplanit.org

The harder assessment challenge is of civic skills, both participatory and intellectual, and civic values, habits, and attitudes.

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Standardized Tests

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GOOD?

Do Digital Badges Work?

Only 18% of states assess students in social studies, and most assessments are narrow – focused on memorization rather than demonstrating civic skills

Proponents say . . .

  • Activates individual’s motivation by rewarding learning

Civics

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Digital Badges

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Critics say. . .

  • Recognizes skills developed on the way to larger mastery

Digital badges are one promising approach to overcoming these difficulties.

  • Dampens individual’s love of learning by focusing on reward, rather than value of knowledge
  • Allows learners to piece together skills and abilities gained in multiple environments
  • Incorporates skills and knowledge currently not recognized within formal credentialing systems
  • Breaks up knowledge as a consumable commodity, rather than treating it as a developmental process
  • Fosters learning in a diverse set of locations and situations
  • Creates a system where it’s impossible to compare the same badge offered in different locations
  • Creates opportunities for peer-to-peer learning and opens up credentialing to new players
  • Creates a confusing array of badges that don’t adequately communicate skills or knowledge
  • Could be hampered by incompatible technology infrastructures
  • Lack of authority and trust creates unreliable and invalid credentials

In a time of complex social problems and deep public disagreement, it’s more important than ever to develop civic skills, knowledge and dispositions.

Yet, high stakes testing, increasingly fragmented learning environments, and shifting demands from employers create challenges for those who seek to create more robust civic learning environments.

How do advocates for civic education meet these challenges?

Additional Resources to Check Out

Digital Media & Learning Competition

http://www.dmlcompetition.net

Open Badges

http://www.openbadges.org

Civic Skills for Civic Engagement

http://bit.ly/13xXVys

A CIRCLE Working Paper

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