This is a guest post by Daria Ng, a Senior Program Associate at
Global Kids. Next week she’ll continue her work with
international education as a consultant for UNICEF. Global Kids
has experimented with digital badging in various contexts for
the past few years. From badging an afterschool program four
years ago at the New York Public Library, to badging the Urban
Biodiversity Network program at the American Museum of Natural
History, Global Kids has used digital assessment to support
youth to recognize, talk about, and demonstrate essential
digital literacy skills. Currently, we are consulting with three
schools as they develop badging systems for their students,
developing our own badging system for all Global Kids youth
programs, and supporting Hive NYC and Hive Chicago to build
their digital badging systems and infrastructures. For the past
year and a half, Global Kids has been navigating the badge
universe. Global Kids has followed the growing interest in
badges in both formal and informal learning conte