{"id":5287,"date":"2014-03-07T17:34:28","date_gmt":"2014-03-07T22:34:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hivetoronto.wpengine.com\/?p=5287"},"modified":"2014-03-07T17:34:28","modified_gmt":"2014-03-07T22:34:28","slug":"taking-hive-global","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/foundation-archive\/mozilla-science\/taking-hive-global\/","title":{"rendered":"Taking Hive Global"},"content":{"rendered":"

This is the first in a series of blog posts where Chris Lawrence<\/a>, Mozilla\u2019s Senior Director of the Webmaker Community, details plans for a global network of Hive activity. These posts will provide an overview of Hive, as a philosophy and as a Webmaker strategy. They will detail Mozilla\u2019s ongoing involvement and map a path for how Hive will spread to new cities, from initial interest to the creation of sustainable and connected networks.<\/em><\/p>\n

Originally posted on the Hive NYC blog.<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

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The Hive Learning Network project is a global set of values, strategies, tools and design principles. Hive has become an integral part of Mozilla\u2019s work and has connected hundreds of organizations and tens of thousands of youth engaged in interest-based production. In line with Mozilla\u2019s mission, Hive also helps people know more, do more, and do better.<\/p>\n

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We believe 2014 will be a pivotal year in establishing Hive as a global effort linking local educators to an international community through the advancement of connected learning, web literacy, and digital skills.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Together, Mozilla, MacArthur Foundation and other key stakeholders plan to increase Hive participation at the individual, city, and global level by activating educators and empowering them with the tools, community, culture, and practice to re-imagine learning in the cities in which they live.<\/p>\n

We have a responsibility to optimize how youth learn.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The inspiration and design of the Hive model springs from a fidelity to connected learning<\/a>, an emergent educational theory that recognizes the need for a new approach to learning. It is defined by its core values, learning, and design principles. We also know that the technology and the culture of the web is critical to learning in a connected world\u2014helping all young people become citizens of the web is an issue of justice and equity. Our experiences, whether digital or analog, are informed by the web. The web is so integrated into our collective daily lives, we believe that web literacy is essential <\/a>for youth and the adults who interact with them to be positioned for success in our ever changing world.<\/p>\n

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We need a Global Hive to spread tools and practices from existing Hives and to help people who want to start Hives in new cities.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Through the work we have done over the past two and a half years with Hive NYC, and more recently with Hive Chicago<\/a>, Hive Pittsburgh<\/a>, and Hive Toronto<\/a>, we have learned:<\/p>\n