Archive: Teach Like Mozilla

This document is to help us collate and annotate content across our various properties to pull together and remix into a fully fledged “Teach Like Mozilla”.

A great deal of reusable content was created for Webmaker Training, and the curricular structure below notes specific points that need to be remixed. Much of this content exists on Github and is displayed using Github pages. The github pages are a temporary way for us to imagine the flow of this content utilizing the platform that was prototyped through Webmaker Training.

Curriculum Structure

This outline represents the potential structure of Teach Like Mozilla and notes specific changes to preexisting content. If suggesting content, please include links.

Course: Participatory Learning

Course Needs: This course has *too much* content, if that’s a thing. Modules need to be streamlined and edited, activities/makes for people to do to extend their learning need refocused away from the old Webmaker tools. Goal: Learn about the theoretical frameworks and pedagogies (teaching methods) the Mozilla community uses, put learning theory into practice. Modules:

• Introduction (Needs reworked to cover the new structure)
  • http://mozillascience.github.io/instructorTraining/knowledgeAndExpertise/index.html (in depth on edu psych, novice vs expert, chunks 7+-2 etc - good “indepth” module)
• Making is Learning (needs images and example “make”, reword “makes” as “activity or projects(?)
• Connected Learning (needs review from Hivers, review “makes”, add examples)
• Working Openly (needs tightening and refocus on working openly (as opposed to open web). Other (potential) sources for this module:
  • from the the Summit
  • p2pu (wide range of courses around openness)
  • school of open
  • http://hivechicago.org/working-open-hive-chicago-style/
• Building on the Web (needs tightening, edits on teaching kit references, new make projects, fleshed out thinking & participatory methods with physical tools sections, reduce web literacy map references)
  • http://mozillascience.github.io/instructorTraining/designAndAdaptation/index.html
  • http://akenygren.tumblr.com/mymakerboxes
• Playtesting and Feedback (needs tightening, rearranging and new projects)
  • http://mozillascience.github.io/instructorTraining/feedback/index.html (loads of good content to build out this module.)
• Facilitating (add training agendas from live trainings)
  • http://mozillascience.github.io/instructorTraining/compellingInstruction/index.html (includes metacog)
• Resources (not really a module but probably a good idea to keep, needs revision)

Course: Organizing this Work

Course needs: Creation. This content did not exist on Webmaker Training, so we’ll need to find and pull together. On a practical level, what are the how-tos and logistical guides our community needs to do the work we do everyday. We use a sort of muscle memory to collaborate with people around the world. We need to recontextualize our modes of being and create learning material that helps other people work the way we do. Goal: Use open, participatory practices in organizational work. This course is all about using open resources and technology to organize and collaborate with more people. Using these methods and practices will help you build successful infrastructures and initiatives to share with the world. Modules:

• Introduction
• Open Tools (needs a more complete list and better examples, integrate some of the open practices stuff (practical, not metacognitive like the “working openly” module) from Project Ascend)
  • http://ascendproject.org
  • SOO
• Collaborating / Forming Working Groups (need to determine four or five scenarios of collaborative work. Practical advice)
  • http://hivechicago.org/moonshots/moonshot-working-groups/
  • https://juliahivenyc.makes.org/thimble/hive-nyc-cohort-guide
  • https://hive.etherpad.mozilla.org/JuliaGH
• PR (“how to create an online presence” from webmaker training integrated with some really practical how to guides for marketing)
• Funding (project briefs, local partnerships, grant writing – need to make determinations of how much of this is doable outside of FT)
  • https://wiki.mozilla.org/Webmaker/HiveCookbook
  • Geoffrey’s blog / fundraising team might have some basic tips and tricks
  • Remixing for your context (specific how to with examples on remixing contextually using clubs curriculum)

Course: Spreading this Work

Course Needs: We have a good amount of content for this topic, just need to pull it together more succinctly and focused. It needs to avoid being a repeat of “tips and tricks”. Goal: This module should focus on the relationship between local action and global community and help people understand how to amplify their work while supporting their causes. Modules:

• Cultures of Participation (cleanup of connecting module from webmaker training and adding more diversity from across Mozilla)
  • http://ascendproject.org
  • reps stuff
• Working Locally
• "organizing and mobilizing learners to take action in their community"
  • case studies of local activities in our community (Hives, clubs, one-time events)
• Joining Campaigns
  • MP
• Growing and Adapting (create a final “next step” module that covers further participation in the community)