Sheryl Grant, a veteran in the Digital Media and Learning community, has written a concise and very helpful report on open digital badges called "What Counts as Learning." I am personally really interested in digital badges and view them as having a lot of potential for opening up learning pathways for young people, allowing them …
Here's a fun pic of our core team in Youth Programs at the California Academy of Sciences. We've had some big transitions and changes in the past months, but through it all, we've supported each other, created awesome experiences for our young people, and developed some amazing programs. I couldn't ask for a better group …
Attention all educators, artists, scientist, facilitators, and otherwise generally awesome people. The California Academy of Sciences’ Youth Programs is looking for the perfect person to help lead our Teen Advocates for Science Communication (affectionately known as the TASC Force) program as the new Assistant Manager. What is the TASC Force? Well, TASC is one of …
Welcome to my new blog, RangerRik.com! This is where you will find my thoughts and activities from my work as a digital learning educator and program developer at the California Academy of Sciences. This is also where I am going to share out lots of the awesome work, tools, approaches, conversations and events happening …
Today was so strange I don’t even know where to start. I’m in Ivano-Frankivsk, a small city in Western Ukraine, where I was brought by the US Embassy to lead some trainings in digital media for local NGOs. I’ve done a few of these technology trainings for civil society organizations around the world, and had …