Schools offer
Boosting awareness of digital badges with children and young people
Region of Learning is excited to introduce our schools offer! We want to build awareness of digital badges in schools, colleges and training providers across our region. With a suite of badges, bespoke support and workshops on offer, we have what schools need to help young people to embrace digital badges – the skills currency of the future.
In conversation with schools and colleges, we are developing a suite of digital badges that can be used ‘off the shelf’ in schools’ settings. Badges that can recognise the soft and human skills not always picked up by exams and qualifications, such as communication skills, or entrepreneurship - for those side hustlers! We are excited to be working in partnership with Form the Future too, who specialises in careers engagement with young people, to deliver skills mapping and Digital CV workshops. These workshops will provide support to those looking to build confidence and recognition of their skills and achievements beyond formal qualifications and develop their digital CV writing skills. They will earn badges throughout the workshops and use these to begin building their own digital CV. They’ll use My Skills Backpack, a secure digital wallet for badges, that can be shared with potential employers.
We can also work directly with schools who are keen to develop their own badges, and we’ve been doing just that with pioneering local school, Milton Road Primary School, Headteacher, Rae Snape, says:
“We are delighted to be working with Region of Learning to create digital badges as a portfolio that children will add to as they progress through the school on their learning adventure. To ensure that this is compliant and safe, the digital portfolio will be retained by the child's parents. We are looking to develop a suite of 50 badges that the children will gain as they progress through the school. The RoL team have joined us to show our faculty how to create the badges. It has been really great to work with them, and their help has been invaluable. They have supported teachers to use the badge writing website to help define the skills and knowledge the children will be acquiring each term. Our first set of badges are currently being Quality Assured and we are hoping to be able to share the badges with children and parents by the end of this term. “
The Region of Learning team are thrilled to be able to offer schools various ways to engage with digital badges, all of which will help our young people explore and recognise their essential skills, helping to raise self-esteem, aspirations and expand their future career options.
If you’d like to talk to us about how your school could benefit from the use of digital badging, don’t hesitate to get it touch with our dedicated Learner Liaison officer, Jenny Kehrer: jenny.kehrer@cambridge.gov.uk.
More about Region of Learning and digital badges:
Region of Learning is championing digital badges, working with employers, colleges, schools and learning and training providers across Cambridgeshire and Peterborough to encourage more local people to explore digital badges as a way to evidence their skills.
The skills captured in a digital badge speak the same language as employers. By matching this language it is easier to spot any gaps in your own skills and improve your offer.
