Festival2012/Submit/Educator as Hacktivator
Title of session: Educator as Hacktivator
Your name and affiliation: Hive NYC/Mozilla Foundation
Session format: Learning Lab
Contents
What will your session or activity allow people to make, learn or do?
This session is designed to activate anyone invested in teaching others to make things! The goal will be to catalyze the educator community at MozFest and collectively set an agenda, present ideas/projects/builds and set trajectories through festival events.
How do you see that working?
Participants will join in a facilitated and participatory discussion designed to make explicit the activation of a teaching, learning and engagement zone within Mozfest. The discussion will involve project shout-outs, brainstorming and the presentation of interest-based projects and ideas that participants would like to prototype, design and build during the festival. Participants will quickly present (three minutes or less) their projects, prototypes and half-baked ideas to the group and pick-up the gauntlet to become an activated educator—or "Hacktivator"—dedicated to using the web and its accompanying skills and literacies to change how people make, share and learn.
How will you deal with 5, 15, 50 participants?
The more the merrier! No matter the number of participants, the education zone team will have an arsenal of activities and facilitators to engage participants in discussing, prototyping and planning their projects and course through Mozfest.
How long within your session before someone else can teach this?
Each member of the session will use a custom-built Thimble project to chronicle their makes, hacks, discoveries and prototypes. Within 20 minutes participants will be either prototyping ideas, remixing web pages or designing their Hactivator profiles.
What do you see as outcomes after the festival?
- Creation of interest-based activities, manifestos, artifacts, media and projects
- Meaningful connections between educators, designers, coders
- Identification of an activated group of people committed to teaching, learning and making using the web
