Festival2012/Submit/Educator Design Jam

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Title of session: Educator Design Jam

Your name and affiliation: Mozilla Hive NYC

Session format: Learning Lab (On-going)

What will your session or activity allow people to make, learn or do?

  • Develop new approaches to teaching and learning on the web
  • Develop prototypes, frameworks, projects to fuel interest-based learning activities on the web
  • Create web-based learning projects and online assets
  • Collaborate with developers, designers and peers
  • Explore intersections between code, content, teaching and learning
  • Expand skills, competencies and areas of expertise
  • Hack and remix learning activities using Mozilla Webmaker tools

How do you see that working?

Mozilla Festival 2012 will feature a strand for instructors and educators (loosely termed Hactivators) looking to build, work on and extend Mozilla's learning tools and practices. The Educator Design Jam is a moveable feast that will run throughout the festival, providing a maker space for educators to brainstorm, design, prototype, play and test in the company of peers and facilitators. Design Jams will be outfitted with comfortable seating, collaborative work spaces, paper prototyping materials, media stations and facilitators. Zones will be set-up at specific times and will be joined by facilitators, educators, developers and designers who are there to work with educators, interest-based projects and new ideas.

How will you deal with 5, 15, 50 participants?

The more the merrier! This is an ongoing design lab that will run throughout the course of the festival, ending with share-outs on the final night of MozFest.

How long within your session before someone else can teach this?

This is an ongoing collaboration and innovation space designed for peer learning.

What do you see as outcomes after the festival?

Participants will be equipped with new skills, insights Follow-up and planning for development of future educator-generated learning activities and instructor-related resources, networks and programs.