Badging System – Global Kids

November 5, 2012

On October 24, Daria and Joliz presented a HASTAC Webinar for their badge community and Digital Media and Learning Competition on Badges for Lifelong Learning winners. Through funding from the MacArthur Foundation, Global Kids is developing networked badging systems for the Hive Learning Networks in...

Key Questions for Global Kids Badge Development

by GK Admin

Badging System

May 25, 2012

By Daria For the past few months, we’ve been meeting with a small group of Global Kids staff members called the Badges Fast Action Team or B-FAT. The group consists of five staff members who convene every other week to discuss big picture questions...

Designing a Program-Based Badging System at Global Kids

by GK Admin

Badging System

May 14, 2012

By Barry Joseph When we began the badge development process at Global Kids, we focused heavily on "global"-badges, which is to say badges which could work across the institution. We looked at our organizational Outcomes & Indicators, and developed a process for analyzing nearly four...

Using Outcomes and Indicators to Shape Organizational Badges

by GK Admin

Badging System

May 4, 2012

By Barry Joseph Today we held second meeting of the Global Kids Badge ADvisory (or, B-AD for short). This is a meeting open to all GK staff members to offer feedback on and consult in a meaningful way about the development of the GK...

Badge-A-Palooza at GK

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Badging System

May 1, 2012

By Barry Joseph This past week has been a veritable badge-a-palooza. The only reason we had four separate badge meetings was because the fifth was postponed for a week when an earlier meeting ran over. Phew!Global Kids' Youth Badge AdvisoryLast Thursday, Daria and I...

Badges in Action: Global Kids, Girl Scouts Develop New Badge Systems for Learning

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Badging System

April 4, 2012

By Joliz Cedeño The MacArthur Foundation highlighted the badge system work Global Kids is developing in their recent Spotlight post. Read the excerpt below. For the full article you can visit Spotlight. Along the lines of badge exploration, Global Kids is developing a new badge system...

Badges For Learning: An Abridged Recent History

by GK Admin

Badging System

April 2, 2012

By Barry Joseph We recently produced this one-page recent history of badges for learning, to support our efforts to develop a badging system for the Hive Learning Network. We thought it might be of interest to others as well. ...

Launch of the Public Development of the Badging System with Hive NYC

by GK Admin

Badging System

March 30, 2012

By Joliz This morning the Hive NYC Network came to Global Kids Headquarters for the launch of the public development of the Hive NYC Badge System. Check out the photos below! ...

Working on Badges in Atlanta

by GK Admin

Badging System

January 20, 2012

By Daria This week, GK spent a productive day visiting The Epstein Middle School School in Atlanta, where the school has implemented a badging system beginning with their sixth grade. Global Kids, along with staff at Epstein, custom designed a badging system to...

GK Presents on Networked Badging Systems

Key Questions for Global Kids Badge Development

Designing a Program-Based Badging System at Global Kids

Using Outcomes and Indicators to Shape Organizational Badges

Badge-A-Palooza at GK

Badges in Action: Global Kids, Girl Scouts Develop New Badge Systems for Learning

Badges For Learning: An Abridged Recent History

Launch of the Public Development of the Badging System with Hive NYC

Working on Badges in Atlanta

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