article thumbnail

Educators Make, Play, and Connect This Summer

Educator Innovator

In Dallas, it might mean exploring community action with digital storytelling. In Pittsburgh, kids might join the growing Maker Movement or pick up some engineering skills while making robots. Connecting all these activities are digital badges. Your learning will be directed by you.”

MOOC 30
article thumbnail

What Education Technology Could Look Like Over the Next Five Years

MindShift

The NMC Horizon report highlights four principles of collaborative learning: “placing the learner at the center, emphasizing interaction and doing, working in groups, and developing solutions to real-world problems.” Badges are already being used to recognize competence in a skill in digital spaces like Khan Academy.