This is a really really good article on the topics of both badges and competencies and the point where they intersect. The idea of 'competency badges', writes Serge Ravet, is that they apply badge thinking to competencies, when in reality our thinking about competencies has changed a lot in recent years with a recognition that competencies are context-specific and practice-based. "Taking Scout badges out of context, like creating an accessible 'fire maker' competency badge that would be 'recognised' by Scouts, would be a complete heresy." Instead, he proposes "the concept of RE/VE (Recognition of Experience / Validation of Experience), whose object is to play on the dialectic (dialogic) recognition-validation." This is very much on the right track, in my view. Image: Class Hack.
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