The document discusses the Hive Learning Network, which connects organizations like libraries and museums to support learning outside the classroom. It is currently active in New York City with 38 member organizations. The Hive believes learning should be driven by youth interests, use digital media, and involve collaboration between groups. Examples provided include the KickFlip program and ways others can get involved through pop-up events, hack jams, or starting their own Hive network in another city with the right conditions.
2. “Average Americans spend less than
5 percent of their life in classrooms”
John Falk & Lynn Dierking
“The 95 Percent Solution Professors/Researchers of Free-
Choice Learning”
http://www.ilinet.org
3. What we will be talking about
• What is the Hive Learning Network?
• What about Hive is working?
• How can you get it?
• Your ideas!
4. Hive Learning Network NYC
• Ecosystem of
organizations
(libraries, museums, afte
rschool programs &
universities)
• 38 members
• 2 full-time employees
• 30 funded projects at
various stages
(currently)
• 6 month cycle for RFP’s
to incubate and develop
learning tools and
programs
5. MacArthur
Digital
Media &
Learning
New York
Mozilla Community
Trust
Hive NYC
(A Mozilla Learning Lab)
6. Hive Core Beliefs
• School is not the sole provider in a community’s
educational system
• Learning should be driven by youth’s interests
• Digital is the glue and amplifier for connected learning
experiences
• Out-of-school time spaces are fertile grounds for
learning innovation
• Organizations must collaborate to thrive
• Youth need to be both sophisticated
consumers and and active producers of digital media
13. Hive Pop-Up: A collaborative mini-festival of youth serving organizations who
plan and run an event for youth, educators and families with curated, table-top
projects and activities. Models in bite-size fashion the energy, activity and
community of a Hive Learning Network.
Hive Hack Jam: In spaces such as libraries, learning spaces and youth media
centers, learners take part in flexible programs based on hands-on
projects, media creation and webmaking. Just like a music jam, a hack jam gives
participants the chance to make something and have others riff off of their work.
Hive Design Charette: Convening a diverse cohort of interested
organizations, institutions, educators, philanthropists and other creative people
to come together with skilled facilitators in a short, concentrated amount of time
to build a strategic plan towards the launching of a Hive Learning Network.
15. Conditions for Hive-Ness
• Funding (incl. dedicated resources to solicit
funds/grants)
• Geographic location with community
organizations that offer quality youth programs
• Shared vision to advocate for youth and their
intellectual and creative interests
• Commitment from orgs to work in a collaborative
manner
• Central administration hub to mobilize, oversee
and champion the network
Note, I am not a graphical wizard, would love help stylizing this prez
http://www.sciencemadness.org/talk/viewthread.php?tid=14723Probably little variations amongst other countries
Notice the diversity in Orgs. Everyone from big orgs to small orgs. Range of content expertise
What the meta-organizational structure looks like for Hive NYC
Don’t read! Highlight
Program opp from the Hive for members – demonstrates the learning lab conceptYouth with deep interest (poetry) + artists, designers, software engineers = learned a new medium that represented their passion, and shared with publicArtists, software engineers and designers tweaked and redesigned their tools based on youth input/testing (similar to popcorn, BAVC model)
Programming from youth interests obviously outside of the domain of school (movie production and skateboarding)What happens when you cross-pollinate deeply youth-interest driven communities Use of mentor and expert feedback Design challenge and hack jam construct
Can be a trajectory or doesn’t need to be
We need to get better at sharing our tools and work
Mini-Hive around the eventDrive interest (among potential members, youth, funders)
Mini-Hive around the eventDrive interest (among potential members, youth, funders)