Mountains of Enrichment
When I was in the fifth grade, I was pulled out of my classes and put into a series of classes called “Enrichment”. It was… Read More »Mountains of Enrichment
Learning
Mozilla wants YOU at Learning at MozFest 12
Calling all teachers, educators, instructors, mentors, youth and anyone teaching digital skills: Mozilla wants YOU at Learning at MozFest 12 Photo Credit: Angela Jimenez The… Read More »Mozilla wants YOU at Learning at MozFest 12
2.3 Concept
2.3.1 Overview A summary of how this course broadly fits within Kerschensteiner’s seven relevant functions (Scheibe, 1999) of project-based learning follows. The target audience of… Read More »2.3 Concept
2.2 Methodologies
2.2.1 Learning through Making Learning through making is quintessentially a project-based approach to education. The approach values practical learning with work aimed at forming a… Read More »2.2 Methodologies
2 Educational Concept 2.1 Introduction
This educational concept proposes interactive, social, gamified, E-Learning modules for self guided study in combination with real world, collaborative workshops. Embedded assessments are used to… Read More »2 Educational Concept 2.1 Introduction
Hacktivating Educators
Recently there have been some gentle shifts in the Learning Team at Mozilla. The ebb and flow of changing the world through the educational hacktivism… Read More »Hacktivating Educators
The Power of Contribution
As part of our attempts to understand what drives the auspicious event hosts who are willing to try out event formats, tools and other materials… Read More »The Power of Contribution
1-Pagers and Contributing
In the course of conceptualizing our modular Hacktivity Kits, we decided to create simple, visual 1-pagers for activities. Here are some prototypes (that are crappily… Read More »1-Pagers and Contributing
The #EdTech “Hysteria”
I read this article “Let’s get to the Bottom of the #Edtech Hysteria” and my thought pattern got all jangle jumbled up. Then I read… Read More »The #EdTech “Hysteria”
Hacktivity Kits and Modular Curriculum
We’re in the process of creating Hacktivity Kits for each of our software tools and for a variety of event types. The kits contain information… Read More »Hacktivity Kits and Modular Curriculum