DM&L Grant Badges for Lifelong Learning (Spotlight Update)

The Week in Digital Media & Learning As we report in this week’s Playback, since the launch of the 2012 Digital Media and Learning Competition: Badges for Lifelong Learning there’s been a robust conversation going on in the blogosphere about digital badges. HASTAC and the Mozilla Foundation will be hosting a series of webinars on the subject beginning Oct. 6 at 3 p.m. (EST). The first one, Badges 101, will address the basics: “What are badges? What are open badges? How can badges work for learners?” You can register for the event or submit questions in advance here. Additionally, for those of you in the Chicago area, Cathy Davidson, one of the hosts of the webinar, professor of English and Interdisciplinary Studies at Duke University, and HASTAC co-founder will be reading from her new book “Now You See It: How the Brain Science of Attention Will Transform the Way We Live, Work, and Learn” on Oct. 4 at 6 p.m. at the Harold Washington Library. FROM THE BLOG 9/30/11 By Sarah Jackson PLAYBACK: The Freedom to Read, Research and Explore Banned Websites Awareness Day, why collaborating on Facebook might be an integral part of a contemporary education, badges for learning, and transliteracy and children, all in this week’s Playback. 9/28/11 By Christine Cupaiuolo New AP/MTV Survey Shows Need for Digital Ethics Curriculum - Fortunately, it’s Here The findings of a new survey on attitudes toward online behavior highlight the need for a digital ethics curriculum—which is precisely what researchers at Harvard and USC released this month. 9/26/11 By Sarah Jackson Can a Digital Teaching Corps Help Close the Literacy Gap? In a new brief, Michael Levine and James Paul Gee say the answer is “Yes.” 9/24/11 By Christine Cupaiuolo PLAYBACK: The Good, The Bad, and Who’s Missing From bullying in the younger (and older years), to colleges embracing teaching social media from a pedagogical perspective and the importance of encouraging high school girls to consider STEM career fields, this week’s Playback looks at changes in networked environments throughout education systems. 9/22/11 By Christine Cupaiuolo World Maker Faire 2011: Kids Take Things Apart in the Interest of Building Curiosity and Learning If there was ever any question of the future growth of the maker movement, last weekend’s second annual World Maker Faire in New York extinguished them as quickly as a fire-breathing dragon. 9/21/11 By Sarah Jackson New Toolkit for Educators on Cyberbullying, Digital Citizenship Common Sense Media has just released a new toolkit on cyberbullying available at no cost to K-12 educators. 9/20/11 By Sarah Jackson A Digital Promise From Washington Aims to Increase Technology Use in Schools A new public-private partnership will help develop technology for learning in and out of the classroom. 9/16/11 By Christine Cupaiuolo Digital Media & Learning Competition Aims to Recognize and Reward Learning Outside the Classroom This year’s Digital Media and Learning Competition aims to demonstrate how badges can revolutionize learning assessment—and demonstrate a learner’s skills, achievements and qualities to potential employers, educational organizations and communities. 9/07/11 By Sarah Jackson With a Focus on Badges, Digital Media and Learning Competition Prepares for Launch The annual Digital Media and Learning Competition will kick off on Sept. 15 at an event in Washington D.C. attended by a number of education leaders.

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Meeting review: OCPRC DM&L Grant Thursday, September 29, 2011 9:00AM

Our Things Too Do List


Comcast Cable Installation (Susana Ditter will speak with Mike Donnellon to determine next-steps, etc.)
   *We briefly mentioned it to Mike during our "Hello" parking lot encounter on departure 


Operating M.O.U. (Possible #5 addendum updates: Susana Ditter will speak to Becky)

DM&L Grant (1000 Word Narrative: Draft Jim Ross & 21st Century Team)

Informal discussions with identified potential partners (Jim Ross)

Visit: Wilkop Garden Center 6550 Coolidge, Troy, MI 248-250-9168 (Susana Ditter at her convenience)
    *Google MAP Link: http://maps.google.com/maps?q=6550+Coolidge+Highway,+Troy,+MI&hl=en&sll=37.0625,-95.677068&sspn=43.934478,90.439453&vpsrc=0&hnear=6550+Coolidge+Hwy,+Troy,+Michigan+48098&t=h&z=16
    *Met briefly with Bob Wilkop (Cell: 246-688-2967) 9-29-2011 continued intellectual buy-in discussion and "possibilities-thinking."  

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The Fourth Digital Media and Learning Competition offers two related competitions:
a design competition on Badges for Lifelong Learning
a research competition on Badges, Trophies, and Achievements

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Badges Competition:
Badges For Lifelong Learning

Awards: $10,000 to $200,000

This Competition focuses on building digital badges for lifelong learning. The Competition is designed to encourage individuals and organizations to create digital tools that support, identify, recognize, measure, and account for new skills, competencies, knowledge, and achievements for 21st century learners wherever and whenever learning takes place. [Click for more]

Research Competition: Badges, Trophies,
and Achievements

Awards: $5,000 to $80,000

This Competition focuses on online networks, digital resources, and gaming environments that provide rich opportunities for demand-driven, learner-centered learning. These include networked knowledge communities, online tutorials, and other digital resources for wide-ranging learning needs.
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"Any Time, Any Place, Any Way, Any Pace!" (Digital Learning Model)

Schools of Choice bill coming

Legislature likely to get proposal this week as foes from Detroit, suburbs gear for fight

By CECIL ANGEL FREE PRESS STAFF WRITER

   An education reform package that includes mandatory Schools of Choice and cyber schools could be introduced in the state Legislature as early as Wednesday, the chairman of the state Senate Education Committee said.

   “It’s a good possibility on Wednesday, the 24th, we’ll have part of the package ready for introduction,” said state Sen. Phil Pavlov, R-St. Clair Township.

   The education package also addresses charter school caps and school aid. The package is part of Gov. Rick Snyder’s proposed “Any Time, Any Place, Any Way, Any Pace” public school learning model.

   Education Committee hearings on the package will begin Sept. 7, Pavlov said.

   Mandatory Schools of Choice is emerging as the most controversial part of the education package.

   Opposition is strong in the heavily Republican Grosse Pointes. In heavily Democratic Detroit, three legislators have said they are opposed to state-mandated Schools of Choice because, they said, it will negatively impact Detroit Public Schools.

   “I don’t want the state to help usher children from one community to another at the expense of the community where they are,” said state Sen. Bert Johnson, D-Highland Park, whose district includes the Grosse Pointes and part of Detroit.

   State Sen. Coleman A. Young II, D-Detroit, said every proposal out of Lansing that was supposed to help DPS has hurt it. He cited the 1999 state takeover that was supposed to improve the district academically.

   At the time, the district had 180,000 students, a $93-million fund balance and a $1.5-billion bond project. Under state control, DPS wound up with a $200-million deficit, he said.

   “I don’t think the state should be imposing another mandate on the city or any other city,” Young said.

   State Rep. Lisa Howze, D-Detroit, said mandatory Schools of Choice “would further impact DPS’s ability to stabilize.”

   Last week, the Grosse Pointe Woods City Council passed a resolution against mandated Schools of Choice.

   The Grosse Pointe Woods-based Michigan Communities For Local Control has set up a Web site at www.miclc.com   and is contacting other school districts to build opposition.

   Peter Spadafore, assistant director of government relations for the Michigan Association of School Boards, said the MASB has been talking with the Snyder administration and legislators about the bill.

   Based on the ongoing discussion, the bill likely will include “universal choice K-12 up to capacity. The problem is how to define capacity,” he said.

   Spadafore said the MASB is opposed to mandatory Schools of Choice. “We feel that decision should be made by the local school district,” he said. “By mandating Schools of Choice, it’s just a solution looking for a problem.”

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The GELT-ART of the LINCHPIN!

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LINCHPIN by Seth Godin





A linchpin, as Seth describes it, is somebody in an organization who is indispensable, who cannot be replaced—her role is just far too unique and valuable. And then he goes on to say, well, seriously folks, you need to be one of these people, you really do. To not be one is economic and career suicide. 

No surprises there—that’s exactly what one would expect Seth to say. But here’s where it gets interesting. 

In his best-known book, Purple Cow, Seth’s message was, “Everyone’s a marketer now.” In All Marketers Are Liars, his message was, “Everyone’s a storyteller now.” InTribes, his message was, “Everyone’s a leader now.” 

And from Linchpin? 

"Everyone’s an artist now." 

By Seth’s definition, an artist is not just some person who messes around with paint and brushes, an artist is somebody who does (and I LOVE this term) “emotional work.” 

Work that you put your heart and soul into. Work that matters. Work that you gladly sacrifice all other alternatives for. As a working artist and cartoonist myself, I know exactly what he means. It’s not what you do, it’s the way that you do it. 

The only people who have a hope of becoming linchpins in any organization, who have any hope of changing anything for the better in real terms, are those who have the capacity to do “emotional work” at a high level—to be true artists at whatever they set their minds on doing. The guys who just plod around the office corridors, just turning up for their paycheck.... Well, those guys don’t have a prayer, poor things. The world is just too interesting and competitive now. 

And Seth then challenges us, the readers, to become linchpins ourselves. To make the leap. To become artists. To do emotional work, whatever the sacrifice may be. It’s our choice, and it’s our burden. Seth won’t be there to catch us if we fall, but to become the people we need to be eventually, well, we probably wouldn’t want him to, anyway. 

Congratulations, Seth. You have penned a real gem of a book here. Rock on. 

--Hugh MacLeod

Meeting: Greenhouse Wednesday evening, June 22, 2011 7:30PM

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