If you’re like me, you haven’t earned a badge since the Brownies (or Cub Scouts) in second grade. But a growing chorus believes that badges are a very special tool for 21st-century learning. They’re everything that a standardized test is not: a modular, personal recognition of a specific accomplishment or skill achieved in, or especially out of, school that can be displayed publicly.
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Disney-Pixar, NASA, Mozilla Partner On Badges To Shape The Future Of Learning