Category: Connected Learning

  • Design Crit: Playlists for Learning (and what we learned)

    Design Crit: Playlists for Learning (and what we learned)

    It’s a wrap! Our DML 6 Playlists for Learning grantees met for a day-long design crit at the Chicago Architecture Foundation’s wonderful design studio (peek here for a look at how great this space is) last week in Illinois. Connie Yowell (above), CEO of LRNG.org, kicked off the event by sharing her vision for what is possible…

  • Co-designing Playlists, XPs, and Badges with Youth

    Co-designing Playlists, XPs, and Badges with Youth

    Over the last two months, the Youth and Media team at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society has been facilitating a set of co-design workshops on Digital Citizenship in collaboration with youth from the Boston metropolitan area. Using a design thinking approach, through these workshops we have been able to create, with youth,…

  • Helping to launch a science career

    Over the past five months our Sky, Water, Earth initiative has evolved more towards a focus on helping youth launch their science careers. The initiative encourages youths to follow their passion and through a variety of activities that helps them build competencies employers value. We’ve focused primarily on supporting the development of ‘soft skills’ that are…

  • Lights, Camera, Action: Creating Content

    Lights, Camera, Action: Creating Content

    Based on feedback from teens in the initial focus groups described in our first blog post, we’ve decided to rely on video, as much as possible, to convey information and instructions in our playlists. This has kept us busy over the past few weeks with script-writing, filming and video editing. After reviewing the focus group results,…

  • Playlist Design: Creating Partnerships and Getting Feedback

    Playlist Design: Creating Partnerships and Getting Feedback

    Over the past few months our team at the Providence Public Library (PPL) has been working closely together to create the three playlists for our My City, My Place DML project. Entering them into the LRNG framework and discovering the capabilities of the platform has been a great learning experience and has helped us begin…

  • Recapping the IMS Global Summit on Digital Credentials and Badges

    Recapping the IMS Global Summit on Digital Credentials and Badges

    First, a little backstory for those newly on-ramped to the digital credential and badging work. IMS Global, a members-based standards consortium, announced in 2015 that it planned to partner with Mozilla Foundation “to accelerate adoption and interoperability of badges in the education and workforce sectors.” This is good news for a couple reasons, not least of which…

  • Marine biology, astronomy, and the interconnected of the two areas

    Sky, Water, Earth is a joint project between the University of British Columbia, the Vancouver Space Centre, and the Vancouver Aquarium. The playlists touch on 4 themes, which are 1) Extreme Environments: Exploring marine and terrestrial extreme environments and their roles as analogues for space-based research and exploration; 2) Water: Maintaining a healthy water system…

  • Designing Playlists for Learning with DML 6 Grantees

    Designing Playlists for Learning with DML 6 Grantees

    How do playlists help guide learners toward mastery? How do we map the learning pathways associated with the development of expertise and learner identities? Our DML 6 Playlists for Learning grantees are taking on these questions, and others, as they adapt their learning content to work in playlist format on the LRNG.org platform, complete with…

  • DesignLaunch – A Design Education Playlist

    DesignLaunch – A Design Education Playlist

    DiscoverDesign.org is a free digital platform that enables students nationwide to learn about architecture and design while completing design challenges and receiving feedback from teachers and professionals in the field. Achievements on the platform lead to skills development and digital badges. With over 8,000 registered users nationally, including 201 registered architecture and design professionals, DiscoverDesign…

  • Building LRNG Badges: Beyond Graphics

    Building LRNG Badges: Beyond Graphics

    Teachers in the New York City Writing Project, Paul Allison, Kiran Chaudhuri, Gina Moss, and Grace Raffaele, talk through the Badge Builder on LRNG. A link to the assessment documents we refer to: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/0B52TLTNub3z9T3V4SjhLdkIwa3c A link to a PSD version of the Picture Me Badge that can be used as a template: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B52TLTNub3z9TzlvenhlZkNXNlU/view?usp=sharing ALSO: Here’s a close…