{"id":8926,"date":"2015-04-30T09:06:31","date_gmt":"2015-04-30T14:06:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hivekc.org\/?p=8926"},"modified":"2019-02-26T12:40:22","modified_gmt":"2019-02-26T20:40:22","slug":"the-mozilla-effect-high-impact-change-agents-accelerate-learning-for-all","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/foundation-archive\/mozilla-learning\/the-mozilla-effect-high-impact-change-agents-accelerate-learning-for-all\/","title":{"rendered":"The Mozilla Effect – high-impact change agents accelerate learning for all"},"content":{"rendered":"

It\u2019s been an intense fifteen months. \u00a0I started at Mozilla in January 2014 as a \u201ccommunity catalyst\u201d tasked with constructing the social scaffolding that would support the experimental Gigabit Community Fund<\/a> project and fertilize the Kansas City environment so a Hive Learning Community could take root. \u00a0We funded nine Gigabit Fund pilot projects<\/a> hosted in more than 24 educational spaces and created Hive KC<\/a> with a locally created fund<\/a> to support innovative projects, like Tech sHeroes<\/a> that champion digital literacy and connected learning in K-12.
\n\"Hive_Community_Kansas_City_2015\"I could never have imagined Mozilla\u2019s effect on Kansas City, or me<\/a> for that matter. \u00a0I think the speed of Mozilla\u2019s process, the rapid flow of expectations, deliverables and open practices all give way to a ripple that churns activity at a constant clip, pushes impact out with force, and illuminates a path forward allowing others to contribute.
\nIn 2014, we opened two rounds of funding, reviewed over 40 gigabit-inspired concepts, funded 9 of them with $162,500 over two 12-week pilot periods, analyzed their impact and efficacy and reported<\/a> our findings to the broader community, hosted a couple hack jams and<\/i> more than 45 community events. In January of this year, we designed an entire Education track for the Gigabit City Summit<\/a> featuring speakers like Richard Culatta<\/a>, Tom Vander Ark<\/a>, Krishna Vedati<\/a> and Erin Mote<\/a>, and it was standing room only.
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Richard Culatta, Director, US Dept. of Education, Office of Ed Tech hosts a fireside chat at Gigabit City Summit 2015 in Kansas City<\/p><\/div>
\nThroughout the entire project, we racked up some miles taking our talent (and projects) to some pretty amazing places. \u00a0We went to DC often – once to mingle with NSF\u2019s Cyberlearning<\/a> cohort, a few times to join a series of events that catapulted PlanIT Impact<\/a> onto the smart applications<\/a> stage, and most recently to the US Ignite Application Summit entitled Smart Future 2015<\/a>. \u00a0We took our Kansas City Public Library\u2019s virtual reality project<\/a> team to London for the Global Hive Meetup at MozFest. \u00a0The Gigabots<\/a> went on tour several times including the 2014 US Ignite Application Summit<\/a> in Sunnyvale, complete with a main stage demo, then onto KC\u2019s Maker Faire and New York City\u2019s Summer Quest.
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The Gigabots at Maker Faire KC<\/p><\/div>
\nI call it the Mozilla Effect. \u00a0Mozilla is special – they are unique from their very origin<\/a> story, but also from the unique way in which they operate around the globe. \u00a0They are global, yet hyper local. \u00a0They are a nonprofit, yet with a savviness and influence reserved for respected, tenured corporations. \u00a0The brand stands with such a knowing force – both of their purpose and of the impact within their army of followers that contribute to their cause. This righteousness creates a kind of culture that gives every Mozillian the permission to be completely impassioned, driven and unquestionably determined to see projects succeed.
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Mozilla Festival 2014 in London<\/p><\/div>
\nMozilla aims to label this construct and effect within their academy-style approach, called Mozilla Learning. \u00a0It makes such sense to me. \u00a0While we Mozillians are dispatching, distributing, engaging and teaching, we too, are learning. \u00a0It\u2019s so elegant.
\nMy fifteen-month Mozilla deployment has been a kind of boot camp – an invaluable and intense experience that put me at the most influential and important position in this movement to teach the web, and it rewarded me with such gratification and pride in what I was able to do and give back to Kansas City. \u00a0I have achieved a level of professional fitness that can now easily support the even bigger and more ambitious initiatives I plan to take on next.
\nI have Mozilla<\/a> to thank for that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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