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Hive Directors on Putting Connected Learning into Action–Live from MozFest 2013

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This is re-posted from the Remake Learning blog.

Hive Directors Sam Dyson, Matt Hannigan, and Leah Gilliam at MozFest 2013 / photo: Dustin Stiver

Hive Learning Networks are working with formal and informal educators in New York, Chicago, Pittsburgh and across the globe to advance the principles of connected learning and re-imagine how learning is organized and supported across youth-serving organizations in urban centers. At the Mozilla Festival on October 25–27, 2013, webmakers and learning innovators came together to kickstart the creation of interactive tools for connected learning that help people explore, make, and share.

In conjunction with Connected Educator Month, three Hive directors Leah Gilliam (New York), Sam Dyson (Chicago), and Matt Hannigan (Pittsburgh) had a conversation at Mozilla Festival in London to share how these networks are linking academic achievement, peer social networks, and personal interests so that youth can learn anytime, anywhere.

Learn more about Hive and the activities that were mentioned:

Special thanks to Dustin Stiver and Jordan Mroziak for the audio engineering and editing that made this podcast possible.

Digital Waves 2013: Popup Newsroom Event for Young Reporters

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This is re-posted from the Radio Rookies blog.

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At the 3rd Annual NYC Digital Waves Youth Media Festival: NewsHive @ St. Joseph’s College youth came together to produce, report, and make their own stories in just 10 hours.

This year’s festival kicked off October 18-19th. Teens reported on issues related to the 2013 NYC mayoral campaign, professional media mentors and participants shared skills and collaborated in our popup newsroom style event.

The entire event was centered around asking the question: “What would happen if we gave youth the resources, space and a tight deadline to tell stories that affect their lives and communities?” With the ultimate goal being to promote youth voice and empowerment, creativity, connectivity and knowledge building through an experiential and immersive process. The festival finished off with a Multimedia Slam Throwdown hosted by Blunt Youth Radio from Portland, Maine where teams compete for the best stories. The format for the competition took place with an adrenaline filled live judging rounds. The first place went to “Teen Parents Speak,” created by youth media makers Leo Hilton (Blunt Youth Radio, Portland High School), Yaqian Liu (The Academy at Urban Arts Partnership, Baruch College), Jocelyn Rivera (Red Hook Initiative) and Jairo Gomez (Radio Rookies, West Brooklyn High School), and mentored by Cassie Wagler. Each team member of the winning team received $100. The second place award of $75 each went to “Bodegas to Starbucks.” The third place award of $50 each went to “Bloomberg Teen Pregnancy Campaign.” And the Audience Choice Award of $25 each went to “Sexual Education Reform.”

Check out the winning stories below!  We congratulate them for all their hard work and accomplishing their pieces in such a short amount of time!

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5 Ways to Teach and Share on Webmaker.org

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This is re-posted from the Webmaker blog.

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Earlier this month, we invited you to teach and share using our new Teaching Kit templates on webmaker.org. The goal: make it easy for educators, mentors and techies around the world to share creative ways for teaching web skills, digital literacy and making.

Here’s five creative ways our community are using the new kits:

1) Teach web skills by making something fun
That’s what Christina Cantrill‘s great new teaching kit does. Christina and her colleagues at the National Writing Project have assembled a unit full of fun activities that explore what memes are and how they work. They then encourage students to dig deeper, tracing the origin of the meme concept to Richard Dawkins’ theories of cultural knowledge and the first-ever “lolcat” photos — dating back to the 1870s!

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2) Train the trainers
Michelle Thorne made this teaching kit as a step-by-step guide for training other facilitators and mentors. She tested it out at a training event in Bangalore. You can remix and share it to train other facilitators, mentors and coaches for your next webmaking event or hack jam.

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3) Introduce the basics of exploring, building and navigating the web
Doug Walters created this teaching kit for an adult education course. Borrowing from the Web Literacy Standard, it links through to several individual activities to create a larger overall unit and lesson plan.

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4) Explore online privacy issues
Karen Smith, Patrick Wade and the Our Privacy Matters team have been developing a whole series of teaching activities around online privacy. Using an online documentary as starting point, their kits explore youth, identity, and online sociability. Karen is also going to be working with university students to develop a whole series of their own teaching kits this fall.

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5) Send learners on a trip to Mars
This kit (still a work in progress) will introduces learners to free 3D resources they can use to build their own “Mission to Mars” experience. Created by Cizzle, one of the winners from the Mozilla Ignite program, their kit is a great example of how baseline themes in Thimble can be remixed to create something that looks and feels totally unique.

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Make and share your own Teaching Kit

  1. Get started here. Choose a template and start remixing to add your own content.
  2. Have a look at examples. See what others are doing. Or if you see something you like, just hit the “remix” button to customize or adapt it.
  3. Stuck? Have a look at these tips and tricks. Or get in touch with OpenMatt or Laura — we’re here to help!
Teaching kit overview

These new templates make it easy to share lesson plans and learning activities