Faculty from a 2016 Innovative Instruction and Technology Grant team shared research and practices with local school teachers and administrators for the University at Albany's School of Education Day. IITG Project Description: http://commons.suny.edu/iitg/view/project-view/entry/466/

1. Scaling the Metaliteracy
Badging System for
Open SUNY
Collaborative Customization for
Teacher Education Programs
School of Education Day
September 9, 2016

2. Overview of IITG Grant
• Collaborative project: University at Albany & Empire State College
• Adapts Metaliteracy Badging System to produce a customized
badge for teacher education programs
• Includes a suite of resources for higher education faculty and K-12
educators interested in metaliteracy and digital badging
• Enhances students’ ability to participate successfully and
responsibly as digital citizens
• Foregrounds exciting disciplinary overlaps between literacy studies
and metaliteracy
• Will be available to all interested SUNY institutions

3. Campus and Faculty
• University at Albany
– Stephanie Affinito, ELTL
– Kelsey O’Brien, University Library
– Trudi Jacobson, University Library
• Empire State College
– Donna Mahar
– Michele Forte
• SUNY Office of Library and Information Services
– Karen Gardner-Athey

4. Learning Objectives
Objective 1: Refine Current Metaliteracy
Badging Program for Multidisciplinary Use
Objective 2: Customize Metaliteracy
Badging System to Create Discipline-
Specific Badges for Teacher Education
Programs
Objective 3: Create Educator’s Corner
Suite of Resources to Enhance Sharing

5. Significant Components
• Credentialing via digital badges, certifying that new
teachers are conversant with topics such as Digital
Citizenship and Collaborative Creation, in order to teach
their students--enhancing citizenship and employability at
both levels
• Open resources to help teachers share and adapt their
new knowledge, gained from the badging, with their
students
• Flexibility such that the result can be used throughout the
SUNY system
• Modeling the potential of integrating metaliteracy badging
into various disciplines

6. What is a Digital Badge?
A record of achievement
Acknowledgement of an accomplishment
Indication of a proven skill or ability
Evidence of learning
Verification of competency
Validation of non-traditional skills or experiences

7. Image Source: Open Badges Anatomy by Kyle Bowen, CC BY-SA 3.0

8. Metaliteracy: Reinventing Information
Literacy to Empower Learners
(Mackey and Jacobson, 2014).
“Metaliteracy expands the
scope of traditional
information skills (determine,
access, locate, understand,
produce, and use information)
to include the collaborative
production and sharing of
information in participatory
digital environments
(collaborate, participate,
produce, and share)” (p. 1).

9. Metaliteracybadges.org
Digital Citizen Badge

10. A Three Stage Plan
• Refine: Add features to scale the system
for customized use by other disciplines
and institutions.
• Create: Create discipline-specific
Metaliteracy badges for teacher education
programs
• Share: Create The Educator's Corner and
a K-12 conference on digital badging.

11. Timeline
• Summer 2016:
– Develop template to refine current Metaliteracy Badging
System
– Develop goals and objectives for literacy badge
• Fall 2016:
– Create content in badging system
• Spring 2017:
– Trial of new content with students at Albany and ESC
• Summer 2017:
– Launch 'Educator's Corner' and K-12 Educators’
Conference