{"id":15742,"date":"2018-05-16T19:45:00","date_gmt":"2018-05-16T23:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tiie.w3.uvm.edu\/blog\/?p=15742"},"modified":"2019-11-03T16:10:43","modified_gmt":"2019-11-03T20:10:43","slug":"students-design-digital-badges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tiie.w3.uvm.edu\/blog\/students-design-digital-badges\/","title":{"rendered":"Students design digital badges"},"content":{"rendered":"

Badging growth toward goals’ attainment<\/h1>\n

\"digitalA small group of these 6th grades at Peoples Academy wondered how they could help their peers be more engaged in the school’s Opportunity Time, time devoted to goal-setting and exploring student interests, so they took on the challenge of designing a digital badging system to incentive their peers.<\/p>\n

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“What makes you interesting?”<\/h2>\n

Students at Peoples Academy Middle School worked hard to answer this question. These 6th graders explored what makes them interesting as a step toward goal-setting. They took the <\/span>Johari Window Test<\/span><\/a> to establish the “word” they would aim to call their own.<\/span><\/p>\n

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After taking the test, students chose a word from their list that they didn’t see in themselves; that others didn’t see in them; or that no one saw in them and developed a goal.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Then, a small design group collaborated to build a badging system to:<\/p>\n