Sometimes Twitter is just too small for big ideas– below is a twitter conversation that sprung up around my recent post Competency vs. Mastery. This post will describe how Knowledge Skills and Attitudes fit into the big picture of assessing student mastery of learning competencies.
Competenc...
“At this time in our history, the most valuable institutions will be those that generate real learning from average or disadvantaged students, not those that generate learning from those students for whom learning is, frankly, easy.”
When we ask “why offer Mozilla Open Badges in education?”, the answer often comes back “to motivate students”. When we ask “how exactly does that work?” – well, uh, it seems people have differing ideas.
I think that many people take it as an article of faith that giving badges will magically mot...