<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>From: <b class="gmail_sendername">HASTAC .org</b> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:hastac@gmail.com">hastac@gmail.com</a>></span><br>Date: Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 9:31 PM<br>
Subject: Badges for Lifelong Learning: 4th Digital Media & Learning Competition<br>To: HASTAC Organization <<a href="mailto:hastac@gmail.com">hastac@gmail.com</a>><br><br><br><div><p></p><p style="border-collapse: collapse;">
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</font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 13pt;"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Apple Symbols";">The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation,
in collaboration with Mozilla and HASTAC, invite you to an event on September
15th at the Hirshhorn Museum in Washington, DC to explore the potential
of Badges for Lifelong Learning. Badges are a new assessment tool that
will help identify skills mastered in formal and informal settings, virtually
and in physical spaces, and in schools, workplaces and communities. Badges for
Lifelong Learning, the 4th Digital Media & Learning Competition,
will will provide up to $2 million in grants for innovations in the use of
Badges for Learning.</span></font></p><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 13pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Apple Symbols";">Learning happens in K-12 and college classrooms,
adult education and in professional development programs. Learning also happens
in an array of other online and in-person environments: in afterschool programs
and online tutorials, through mentoring, playing games, interacting with peers
in person and in social networks, with smart phone apps, in volunteer
workshops, at sports camps, during military training, and in countless other
ways and other places. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 14pt;"><b><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Apple Symbols";">Badges</span></b><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Apple Symbols";"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 14pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Apple Symbols";">A badge is a validated indicator of accomplishment,
skill, quality or interest
that can be earned in any of these learning
environments. Badges can support learning, validate education, help build
reputation, and confirm the acquisition of knowledge. They can signal
traditional academic attainment or the acquisition of skills such
collaboration, teamwork, leadership, and other 21st century skills.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 14pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Apple Symbols";">Badges are used successfully in games, social
network sites, and interest-driven programs to set goals, represent
achievements and communicate success. A digital badge is an online record of
achievements, the work required, and information about the organization,
individual or other entity that issued the badge. Badges make the
accomplishments and experiences of individuals, in online and offline spaces,
visible to anyone and everyone, including potential employers, teachers, and
peer communities.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 14pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Apple Symbols";">In addition to representing a wide range of skills,
competencies, and achievements, badges can play a critical role in supporting
participation in a community, encouraging broader learning goals, and enabling
identity and reputation building. For a learner, a sequence of badges can be a
path to gaining expertise and new competencies. Badges can capture and display
that path, providing information about, and visualizations of, needed skills
and competencies. They can acknowledge achievement, and encourage collaboration
and teamwork. Finally, badges can foster kinship and mentorship, encourage
persistence, and provide access to ever-higher levels of challenge and reward.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 14pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Apple Symbols";"><a href="http://dmlcompetition.net/" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 245);">Digital Media and Learning Competition</span></b></a></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 13pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Apple Symbols";">The Fourth Digital Media and Learning Competition
focuses on building digital badges for lifelong learning. The Competition is
designed to encourage individuals and organizations to create badges – digital
tools that support, identify, recognize, measure, and account for new skills,
competencies, knowledge, and achievements for 21st century learners regardless
of where and when learning takes place.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 13pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Apple Symbols";">The success of badges as an alternative path to
accreditation and credentialing for learners relies on a significant
“ecosystem” of badge issuers, badge seekers, and badge displayers. The
Competition aims to spur the development of that ecosystem through the creation
of high quality, valuable individual badges and sets of badges. The Mozilla
Foundation, with support from the MacArthur Foundation, is building an Open
Badge Infrastructure to enable the interoperability and collection of badges.
The infrastructure will support badges from any issuer across the Internet. It
will allow learners to collect, carry, and display their badges across websites
and experiences and from youth through adulthood. All badges and sets of badges
developed through the Competition will be designed to plug into the Mozilla
infrastructure— which will contribute, in turn, to the development of the
larger badge ecosystem.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 13pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Apple Symbols";">In this ecosystem, each digital badge or collection
of badges can inspire learning and translate “anytime, anyplace, any age”
learning into a powerful tool for getting jobs, finding communities of
interest, and demonstrating skills, competencies and achievements. For more on
the Mozilla Open Badge Infrastructure, please see
<a href="https://wiki.mozilla.org/Badges" target="_blank">https://wiki.mozilla.org/Badges</a> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Apple Symbols";">Connect with the Digital Media & Learning
Competition:</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Apple Symbols";">Web: <a href="http://www.dmlcompetition.net/" target="_blank"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 245);">www.dmlcompetition.net</span></a></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Apple Symbols";">Winners' Hub: <a href="http://hastac.org/competitions" target="_blank">http://hastac.org/competitions</a></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Apple Symbols";">Scoop.it: <a href="http://www.scoop.it/t/badges-for-lifelong-learning" target="_blank">http://www.scoop.it/t/badges-for-lifelong-learning</a></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Apple Symbols";">Twitter: <a href="http://www.twitter.com/dmlComp" target="_blank"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 245);">www.twitter.com/dmlComp</span></a></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Apple Symbols";">Facebook: <a href="https://www.facebook.com/DMLcomp" target="_blank"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 245);">https://www.facebook.com/DMLcomp</span></a></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Apple Symbols";">LinkedIn: <a href="http://www.linkedin.com/groups/Digital-Media-Learning-Competition-3935137" target="_blank"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 245);">http://www.linkedin.com/groups/Digital-Media-Learning-Competition-3935137</span></a></span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: "Apple Symbols";"></span></p>
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