BLC14-SDL CueTips Presentation

• 1. Student Digital Leaders Glyn Barritt, SSAT

2. Student Digital Leaders Passion to help their school shape vision and strategy around the use of technology Eagerness to promote their school and their SDL activities expanding network Eagerness to research new technologies and train their teachers and peers SDL roles ensure appropriate, engaging technology use Student Digital Leaders at Lady Lumleys School, Yorkshire, UK 3. Benefits Sch Embeds most effective technology across school life Sch Maximises the impact of the ICT budget Stu Develops leadership and specialist skills Stu Develops other 21st Century skills Stu Flexibility & credibility in the jobs market Stu Important! Helps students bring fun into learning! Nat Co-construct curriculums to engage all students in relevant and enjoyable learning Nat Work alongside teachers to lessen effects of new demands on their workloads Nat Help narrow the gap between policy makers and those designing/delivering the curriculum 4. Planning What issues might SDLs help to address/overcome? Whole school initiative or piloted by certain classes? How will you choose students for the roles? What qualities will your SDLs need to demonstrate? What year groups might you approach first? How long will SDLs serve? How do you ensure continuity? Who in school will oversee SDLs & champion widely? 5. Initial training & Group ID Listening and speaking Active and sympathetic Asking for help For themselves, others Communication skills Peers, teachers, community Sharing and showcasing SDLs continually moving foward Using and applying Getting the most from tech for learning Reviewing and feedback 6. Joining a growing network makewav.es www.gr8ict.co.uk Extended outwards with help of social media look out for #dlchat on Twitter, every Thursday evening 2100 BST www.digitalleadernetwork.co.uk 7. SDL Accreditation Remember those roles? Badges recognise achievement Digital badges can be displayed online! Mozilla Open Badges take the concept further Badge the UK, Makewaves, SSAT working with Mozilla, teachers, students and partner organisations on accrediting SDLs 8. Mozilla Open Badges Top global brands have come together to support a new way to recognise development of 21C skills Visual representations of learning, achievements, skills, interests & competencies They can represent hard and soft skills, peer assessment and stackable lifelong learning Over 70% of employers want employability skills to become a top education priority. The CBI 9. Mozilla Open Badges contd Free open global technical standard for recognising achievement Transferrable: badges from different sources are collated in one backpack Badges can be displayed on social networking profiles, job sites, websites Badges are information-rich with details of achievement, criteria, evidence, issuer 10. Badges are info rich! Metadata baked into the badge permanently: description, criteria, evidence Value of badges in the rigour of how they are earned Growing number of employers, colleges and universities endorsing badges = new opportunities for young people Doug Belshaw was Badges & Skills Lead at the Mozilla Foundation offers a great explanation of Open Badges http://is.gd/PJMqRp 11. Video shown with the kind permission of DigitalMe 12. What do students think? If its going to be beneficial for getting a job, then someone could look at your profile and see that youve done all these wonderful things .. 13. Other platforms and plugins offer badging technology elsewhere Students are now contributing to the digital leaders network on Makewav.es - www.makewav.es/digitalleaders/ Makewav.es offers technology for teachers to design their own badges U13s cannot earn Mozilla Open Badges but Makewav.es has conversion technology Why Makewaves? 14. First three national SDL badges are now available to earn .. more national badges are in the pipeline Chris Sharples & colleagues have produced a framework based on Blooms consulting with colleagues currently Keep a watch on the links above for further updates particularly Chriss blog www.gr8ict.com Badge beginnings 15. Beginning to identify the requirements of each role in order to build up a framework of skills development and achievement for Open Badges accreditation. See next slide 16. Ambassador Leader Networker Reporter Communicator Creator Educator Presenter Technologist Technician Reviewer Safeguarder Shared framework .. Student Digital Leaders at Lady Lumleys School, Yorkshire, UK 17. Shared framework .. Shown with the kind permission of Chris Sharples, Lady Lumleys School Yorkshire who with colleague Paul Scott from the Yorkshire Curriculum Innovation Team have drafted open badges missions for levels 1 and 2 for some of the roles 18. L1 Knowledge and Comprehension Being told how to do things and doing them with friends and in own class L2 Comprehension and Application Taking what you have learned and applying it to other situations L3 Application/higher Blooms Taking a brief and applying it to different audiences outside school Evaluating and improving Levels based on Blooms Student Digital Leaders at Lady Lumleys School, Yorkshire, UK 19. Badges have disruptive potential in the world of accredition not just for students but for teachers undergoing professional development too! Here are two badges that SSAT offered to presenters and attendees of a speed learning conference (hence the clock design!) Badges for teachers too! 20. Glyn Barritt [email protected] www.ssatuk.co.uk @ssat @ictregister @sdigileaders @glynbarritt