• Understand How Badges Affect College Admissions –

  Understand How Badges Affect College Admissions – @ChipHouston1976 @MeghanCureton @ErinMVPS @boadams1 @AmyMWilkes https://t.co/6Twl5ILsaU

  HT Pam Ambler

  tags: badges microcredentialing badging college #MustRead #mvifishares assessment

  • Where badging might most upend traditions, however, is in kindergarten through 12th grades, particularly in how students build portfolios for themselves and use those portfolios to apply to college.
  • A world in which everything a student does, whether inside or outside of school, can be measured and categorized by a digital badge would – with a common set of standards and if viewed as legitimate by colleges and universities – greatly change the college admissions process, as well as how students think about learning.

• How One School Integrated Global Citizenship into Maker Education – Independent Ideas Blog

  An interesting and compelling case study of Austin, TX, grade 7 designers partnering with a school in Nicaragua to fabricate lamps.

  tags: designthinking #MustRead #MVIFIshares maker

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