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No due date•6/6 issues closedWrangled by Bekka Kahn @rebamex Grif Peterson @grifpeterson Mark Anderson Carl Ruppin Online learning offers great promise for bring education to those who do not have access to it. However, more people drop out of MOOCs than finish them - something critical is missing. We believe the lack of peer-support keeps newcomers out of successfully participating in and completing online learning experiences. To try and address this, P2PU and Chicago Public Library have developed a program of in-person study groups to support open online learning. These are Learning Circles - free, peer-supported groups, facilitated by non-content experts. They're designed to be engaging for participants, taken with few prerequisites, and hosted in publicly-accessible spaces, like community centres and libraries. At Mozfest, we're going to be running Learning Circles which will teach you how to run your own Circles - equipping participants with the know-how they need to go out into their communities, and build face-to-face communities of learning for online content all over the world!
No due date•1/1 issues closedWrangled by George Roter (@geroter) and Emma Irwin (@emmairwin) Participation is both one of the pillars of universal web literacy and at the heart of Mozilla and MozFest’s approach to learning. But participation doesn’t just happen: it’s built through great design and great leadership. This space will have a mixture of learning workshops, hack sessions, open challenges and product tinkering to build participation and help develop leaders who can teach and build participation. These will be aimed at: personal leadership exploration (e.g. ego out, participation in) skill development (e.g. storytelling; facilitating participation) designing and testing new approaches to participation and building community (e.g. scaling Tech Speakers; building Community-lead IT; participation and FirefoxOS) Target participants Mozilla Participation Leaders These Mozillians have applied to and been accepted for full sponsorship to MozFest. They come from every continent, are generally under 35 years old, tech savvy and are passionate about building learning experiences for young people, tech enthusiasts and other Mozillians. They have done a lot on their own to innovate and build participatory experiences for others related to Mozilla’s goals. But they know they can have more impact and want to “take it to the next level” of either quality or scale. Community Builders and Leaders The individuals understand the power of building communities that invite participation, because they’ve done it themselves. Maybe they are a high school student who is passionate about gaming as a force for good and started a student club to hack on a game that will help young people learn about cyber-bullying. Or maybe they have recently started a Mozilla Club on their campus. Or they are leading a local seniors group focused on fostering intergenerational learning. They have common challenges: How can they build new and diverse opportunities for people to participate in the community? How do they balance the need to be inclusive and inviting new ideas, against the focus that’s necessary to get things done? How can they create space for others to lead? How can technology unlock even more potential in a community? They are interested in both exchanging and workshopping ideas, finding others who understand and help them navigate their challenges, finding other communities they can intersect with, and learning about new approaches and technologies that will help their work. Education, especially leadership development, nerds This might be a professional educator, a museum curator, someone running professional development at a large company, an NGO organizer, or someone who setup a participatory public art installation. What connects them is a passion for creating participatory and interactive learning experiences. They stay up late reading about pedagogy or sketching ideas for workshops and conferences. Some of them might be leveraging technology and the web as early adopters, rolling their own code or hardward; some might be dabbling with off-the-shelf web applications; and some might just be “confused” about how to navigate all that’s available and curious about playing around with some new ideas. This might be their first time at MozFest, but they feel totally at home in the learning activity and chaos, and it feeds their need to be observing others, how they learn and how they engage with ideas. What they need is a laboratory for building learning experiences and participation -- a place to rapidly test and get feedback on new ideas. They also need to connect with other education nerds, exchanging stories, articles and technology on the leading edge of education. Technology and participation mavens This is the friend that told you (and their 1,000 Facebook friends) about the RaspberryPi they rigged up to play Frogger on the old Atari operating system. Or the friend that hosted a murder mystery night that they wrote themselves. Or the colleague who hacked the company fun day by partnering with a charity to build a playground. They might not be formal leaders, but they ‘live’ participation through and through, and revel in the chance to unleash creativity and fun and meaning onto their friends and colleagues. They want to play with new technologies, get inspired by new experiences, be surrounded by people, and get ideas for their next project. Learning objectives 1) Leading participation Participants will learn about: their own habits and approaches to leadership, and how they can be more participatory the tools/technologies and approaches available for (or that they can create) organizing people and communities in an open and participatory way 2) Experience design and facilitation Participants will learn how to design and facilitate great participatory learning experiences (and how these are different) -- this includes formal workshops and more open learning spaces like hackathons. 3) Technologies that are designed for participation Participants will: learn about and tinker with existing technologies that are designed with participation in mind learn about creating technologies are designed for participation by building something themselves
No due date•28/28 issues closedWrangled by Lindsey Frost (@lindseyfrost) and Sam Dyson (samueledyson) The Mozilla Learning Network space at MozFest will convene and catalyze leaders who equip others to advance their lives on the Web. Our leadership space and pathways are part of a broad effort to cultivate a global network of web literacy leaders, people of all stripes and ages who are teaching others to read, write and participate on the web while still actively learning themselves. Over the festival weekend the MLN Space at Mozfest will: Convene a growing global network of web literacy leaders; Catalyze connections across the network that lead to the spread, scale, and adoption of web literacy programs created by us and by our communities; Create clear pathways for web literacy leadership development tailored to the various stakeholders MLN serves; and Communicate a narrative about MLN for our diverse audiences that is clear, concise, and deeply aligned with Mozilla's broader goal of universal web literacy.
No due date•47/47 issues closedSpace Wranglers Heather Bailey (@hjbailey) & Dwayne Bailey Entry level of awareness, being sensitized to the issues. Practical connections or localization skills. Walking away with some knowledge, skills or connections to people that would help to address things once they are back home. Global thinking or localization strategy. Having a much higher level view of how localization is integrated into their project or language strategy. Strange as it might seem, the web is not English. In fact HTML speaks no language. Even more odd is the fact that web has no real requirement for English literacy, apart from the one we may have created. So as we're targeting the next few million people who are to become web literate and who are to become creators and participators on the web it may help to consider that most of them will most likely no be English literate. Our space will help you understand how all languages and cultures are uniquely different, valuable and critical if we are to make a difference in the lives of the majority of the worlds population. The Mozilla community is vast in its different cultural and language backgrounds and it is important for us to acknowledge this and adapt what we do to not only include everyone but to celebrate differences. Buy participating you will learn how languages are different, how to include diversity into products and how to take some of those skills to local communities and make it happen locally."
No due date•4/4 issues closedSpace Wranglers Dorine Flies (@dorineflies) and Harry Smith (@zebetus) Through the lens of youth, is an explanatory mix of conversations and workshops about what young people know to be important to them vs. what we the adults might feel they should instead be doing. The space will have 3 main workshop themes with 30 session over 2 days to help the story develop, led by youth and adults in partnership: *News to me! Come discover how technology has meaning and in what way it is relevant to you *TECH! What else you can do with it from fulfilling careers to using new medias to express your passions together across the generational chasm. Craft - Bridging your digital divide. You already know this stuff, but you might just not see it that way?
No due date•43/43 issues closedWrangled by: Melissa Romaine (@Melechuga), Stacy Martin (@mozstacy), Shane Caraveo (@mixedpuppy), and Sara Haghdoosti (@shaghdoosti) --- When we talk about reading, writing, and participating on the Web, we often forget that access for participation isn’t equal, and that not everyone is safe. The Digital Citizenship space will explore how limitations to access can include not only technical abilities, but also external forces like government surveillance, blocked access to certain areas of the Internet, lack of privacy, marginalization, and fundamental socio-cultural beliefs that bleed into online life. Come work with policy experts, legal practitioners, activists, and technologists from all over the world to raise awareness about limitations to online participation. Hear their stories and share your knowledge about online privacy and safety, mobilizing people for effective campaigning, and help create tools to keep the Web safe for everyone. We hope this experience will increase empathy about different experiences online, and will help Mozilla better understand Internet policy issues in various regions worldwide. @MozillaAdvocacy Pathways: R-E-S-P-E-C-T: Sessions focused on the experiences of people marginalized online. We’ll look at gender equality, human rights abuses, government surveillance, and other issues affecting online participation. Building a Crowd: Sessions focused on mobilizing people to protect the open Internet. We’ll look at strategies for growing our advocacy community, and tools that help people lend their voice to protest. Don't Feed the Trolls: Sessions focused on cyberbullying and online harassment. We’ll look at ways to protect yourself and your family, and design tools for better protection. Backdoors + Cryptowars: Sessions focused on using tech tools to protect our freedom of expression. We’ll play with features in Firefox 42, discover ways to teach others about Tor, and design privacy tools we want. What’s your policy?: Sessions focused on Internet policies worldwide. We’ll learn about Mozilla’s stance on certain issues, and talk about how to engage the community in a meaningful way.
No due date•73/73 issues closedWranglers: Arliss Collins (@arlissc99), Abby Cabunoc Mayes (@abbycabs) Science is for everyone, and helps us understand the world around us. The Open Science track offers a space to be curious, tinker, learn new tools and skills, and hack together on projects and data. Interested in citizen science, open data, learning or research? Join us to get help with your project, learn new data and collaboration skills, and get your hands dirty playing with tools to apply to your work. --------------------------------- This track is for science hobbyists, researchers, librarians, and those working with data. There will be participatory sessions focusing on specific tools and projects, as well as trainings on tools like GitHub, citizen science, open mapping, and skills to help you get your hands dirty with data. Have a project you'd like help with? We'll be running an Open Research Accelerator at the Festival, to provide 1-on-1 mentorship around open source and project skills to help you run your very own session at the Festival. Participants will interact with educators, researchers, tinkerers, developers and data scientists, as well as learn tangible skills to apply to their own projects. Our target participants are those who are curious about science, looking to learn about open source, data, and tools to advance their work on the web. This encompasses researchers, but also youth interested in astronomy or citizen science, educators looking to fold learning back into their work, data journalists and more.
No due date•45/45 issues closedWrangled by: Erika Owens (@erikao) and Ryan Pitts (@ryanpitts) Journalism influences the web we inhabit. Journalism shapes the web through code that was developed in newsrooms, like Django and Backbone. Journalism drives web content, stories that amuse and enrage as well as reporting that leads to meaningful changes in our communities. Journalism works at a scale that few other industries can muster–millions of readers engage with reporting every day. How can the work we do inside and outside of newsrooms continue to strengthen the web and change people's lives? Through the journalism space, participants will gain a foundation of understanding about this role that journalism plays in the web. They'll better understand how they contribute to journalism on the web as well--whether it be through code, writing, or community contributions. Participants will have multiple ways to engage with journalism on the web, based on their existing skills and interests. Through each of the pathways, participants will deepen their connection with journalism on the web and gain skills that will inform their own work and allow them to contribute to journalism in a way that is manageable for them. They'll leave the journalism space excited about the importance and impact of journalism on the open web and with clarity about their own role in supporting that work to help support their own community. Activists: Efforts toward privacy, inclusion, and other indicators of safe communities and a healthy internet rely on the energy of people driven to make those worlds into better places. Building skills and finding collaborators are two ways to amplify those efforts, and MozFest can make both those things happen. * Developers from outside journalism: Talented programmers who love solving problems through code often don't realize that journalism is such a rich, fascinating space to work in. We've found that developers from other fields are often energized by the opportunity to join a newsroom and take on projects they find personally meaningful. * Developer/journalists: One of OpenNews' goals is to support collaboration between news organizations; everyone benefits when journalists work together to free data and build tools, making more time for analysis and storytelling. Bringing them together to build skills not only makes them better at their jobs, it connects them with people they'd like to work with down the road. * Regional journalists: Journalists in the UK and Europe have data analysis as a core part of the journalists' skillset. They already use data to understand local and regional issues like immigration that affect their communities and influence the political landscape. They're interested in building connections with other journalists, sharing their skills and data, and continuing to build their skills. * Journalism educators/university students: University instructors are often a few years removed from practice, so it's difficult to avoid a divide between what gets taught in the classroom and what modern newsrooms need. Bringing students and educators together with cutting-edge designers and developers is great opportunity to help influence the next generation of journalists. Participants will leave with knowledge about existing tools that support journalism, areas where tools are still needed, opportunities to contribute to open-source projects. * They'll leave with the ability to use a tool--whether that's Tabula, a mapping library, or something else--that they didn't know how to use before. * They'll leave with an understanding of the ethics of journalism, how to treat a subject fairly, represent an entire community, be honest with data, etc. * Existing journalists will leave having seen the way Mozilla's mission aligns with their own * They'll leave with knowledge of the broad range of fellowship opportunities that might allow them to help influence the future of the open web."
No due date•42/42 issues closedSpace Wranglers Ian Forrester (@cubicgarden) Jon Rogers and Jasmine Cox Athena ‘The Connected Library’ is… A portal to different social learning spaces, which link you to the world, and connects you with the larger community through the familiar metaphor of the library.A portal to different social learning spaces which links you to the world and the connects you with the larger community through the familiar metaphor of the library. Its about the fabric of life Athena ‘the Connected Library’ blurs the boundaries between physical and digital media to create a shared space community brought together by an appreciation or love of learning. It will bringing together a group of people with a common interest: Where relationships can develop and continuous learning can happen. It is an opportunity for r&d to explore, build and collaborate on a part of the connected future. Developing public infrastructure for public use and gain. It takes the understanding of Affinity Spaces, and creates a framework for a Physical internet of things/space. Athena will be a hub for combining various disparate elements of the Mozilla festival, including physical spaces, themes, attendees and facilitators. Into an experimental space with values based in public good. Athena will be a visually and physically inviting space for people to visit, for people to learn, and participate together. The space may inherit features of a library and allow people to spend as much time as they wish engrossed in the environment, with opportunities to take home a memento to extend their experience beyond the festival. The Connected Library is not only for passive consumption. Visitors will contribute to the library, creating and publishing books for others to browse, they will broadcast knowledge… transcending the consumer creator barrier. An Affinity Space to Learn, Do, Share, and support ‘A life-long learning journey’. Athena will need a network of printers, sensors, and humans.
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