Aug 28, 2013
Building a 'Badge Economy'
Philadelphia, Chicago, and Providence have introduced "digital badging" allowing students to earn credentials outside traditional education settings--for example, by attending workshops in libraries or museums. The schemes give credit to skills and talents that "too often go unrecognized in the K-12 school system and other institutional contexts."
Digital badges are a way of forcing educators to recognize that learning is no longer confined to a classroom and is taking place anytime.
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