This is a really interesting conversation about badge system design and the purposes underlying each. Where is your school fitting in with these "buckets"?
"Here, teachers are a bit like farmers, Detterman says. And children are a bit like corn. "You have corn plants that do well in certain environments, and don't in others. And the farmer's job is to get the corn plants into the right soil.""
Wonderfully rich set of curricular resource kits, including Script Changers, Short Circuits, Soft Circuits and Gaming the system. Not sure where to begin with connected learning in a digital word? This is a wonderful jumping off place.