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The Hive Cookbook

This cookbook is designed to offer you specific recipes that can be used as a guide, or as way to share specific formulas that you can use to cook up the Hive model of networked learning in your community. Each section concludes with a selection of recipes submitted from Hive members, leaders and stakeholders.

About Hive

Hive is a city-based strategy to teach, learn, promote and explore connected learning, digital skills and web literacy. A growing and vibrant community, Hive actively supports an open source, laboratory-approach to learning by generating and supporting opportunities for exploration, experimentation, iteration, and shared discovery. Taken together, Hive models and mechanisms provide a recipe for the spread of new ideas, tools, and digital media practices. Through participation in Hive, a community's civic and cultural organizations, businesses, entrepreneurs, educators and learners of all ages can build, shape, teach and learn together.

Context and Rationale

In 2005, the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation established a new grantmaking area in Digital Media and Learning. Representing an investment of more than $80 million, the effort is focused on understanding how digital media are changing the way young people learn, play, socialize and participate in civic life, as well as how institutions are adapting to these changes.



As part of this initiative, the Foundation invested in the creation of two Hive Learning Networks, one in New York City and the other in Chicago. The rationale behind Hive is two-fold: First, every day, young people move among learning experiences in a variety of environments. These environments—which can be formal or informal, physical or virtual—are increasingly defined by learners’ personal interests and social networks and less by geographic proximity. Second is the capacity of new technologies and media to provide the necessary integration and coordination between formal and informal education organizations within a community. When they are designed to link together, these multiple environments can create connected learning experiences in which youth can more easily participate in accessible, "anytime, anywhere" learning activities by pursuing their interests and working alongside their peers.

Core Values and Principles

Hive recognizes that in the digital age, the fundamental operating and delivery systems are networks. When coordinated to work together, organizations can provide opportunities beyond what they can do on their own. When networked in this manner, learning experiences are connected, extensive, easily accessed and align with local interests. Mentors and educators are learning guides who direct youth on pathways to proficiency and expertise in specific content areas and fields, enabling them to build and curate a diversity of experiences that develop the necessary skills to navigate their world.

Hive is made up of participating organizations with a wide range of missions, youth populations, institutional sizes, media art forms, disciplines, and engagement strategies, but who share a clear set of values and aspirations. Reflective of the intentions of connected learning, Hive members act on and advance core principles and practices in their programs, in their partnerships, and throughout the network itself that are:

  • Collaborative & Cooperative: multidisciplinary teams have shared goals, objectives
  • Experimental & Catalytic: efforts nurture new ideas, new ways of working, new partnerships
  • Relevant & Consequential: experiences address needs and potential of children, youth, and teens
  • Equitable & Open: productive exchange of ideas and opportunities for all
  • Engaging & Participatory: connects the personal with shared interests of the community to actively produce, create, design and test new knowledge

Recipes

Prospective Hive Learning Network Readiness Self Assessment Document- submitted by Hive Pittsburgh

Taking Hive Global

Hive Global functions as a “big tent” for educators and organizations with diverse approaches to come together around connected learning and web literacy. A unified Webmaker with the Hive Network project functioning as the city network deployment strategy, will build momentum for and global adoption of the philosophy, tools, and strategies of connected learning.

As steward of the Global Hive network, Mozilla will construct and convene a governance structure, create materials, offer badges, run events, provide web platforms, and collect metrics that support the work of local Hive leaders.

Three Tiers of Hive

Over the last two years MacArthur and Mozilla have grown Hive NYC and Hive Chicago, helped on-board Hive Pittsburgh and Hive Toronto and responded to a growing chorus of communities eager to incorporate Hive values, ideas and platforms, or as we have dubbed it, “Hivey-ness.” As a result, we’ve developed a three-tiered engagement ladder, outlining ways to contribute to Hive as well as the path towards creating and sustaining a Hive Learning Network.

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Current Hive Cities

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Currently, Hive Networks are located in Chicago, New York, Pittsburgh and Toronto. Hive Learning Communities are emerging in Berlin, Chattanooga, India, Indonesia, Kansas City and San Francisco Bay Area.

Connecting to Hive Global

Mozilla houses a team dedicated to growing the Hive network globally who work in concert with Hive's Global Constellation Team. Mozilla adds value and strength to the Hive work by embedding it within this team and adding financial, human, and technological resources to the project.

The Hive Learning Network site is a great starting place for further information on Hives. You can also get involved with Hive interested people through:

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Tier I: Bringing Hive Events to your Community

Attributes of Hive

The extent to which the following attributes are in place or committed to will help determine the readiness of a new location to plan and launch a Hive:

  • Professional Learning Community: A community of youth-serving organizations committed to testing new ideas to initiate a Connected Learning framework
  • City or Metropolitan Area Presence: A strong and credible voice representing the Hive vision for learning at important events
  • Sustainability: A sustainability and financing plan to support Hive administration and innovative programs
  • YOUmedia or Maker-Like Space: An existing, or the commitment to developing a, permanent space for youth, similar to YOUmedia, that connects young people’s interests, peer culture, and academics
  • Programming and Shared or Open Assets: The regular development of innovative learning programs and activities that contribute to a pool of shared and open assets for others to use and remix.
  • Youth: Young people willing and able to participate in Hive programs and activities, and a commitment to launching a community of youth to help advise on Hive operations and programs
  • Research: The willingness to collect standardized data and to be observed by a team of researchers gathering information about the Hive model and its contributions to improved learning for youth.
  • Technology: A commitment to implementing a technology infrastructure that connects young people to one another and to mentors for shared learning and critique, and to collecting real-time data about activities for continued improvement. This may include specific tools like digital badges as a way to value and make visible the learning that takes place in informal spaces.
  • Connected Learning Commitment: Active participation in Digital Media Learning networks, discourses and communities.

Getting Started

If you are interested in bringing Hive to your community, you can begin by familiarizing yourself with the three tiers of Hives. Building interest for connected learning and making activities in your community can be an initial first step to work towards launching successful Hive events. Some individuals have used social media to share out information on connected learning and the types of events that are possible to build interest and enthusiasm.

Finding out if there are organizations that want to collaborate to create a connected learning experiences for youth is a great early step to bring Hive programming to your community. With individuals such as librarians, teachers, youth workers, technologists and makers, you may be able to plan a Hive event. Organize a meeting to gauge interest and establish a team motivated to plan and execute a Hive event. At an initial meeting, you may find it helpful to use video clips showing a Maker Party event in Pittsburgh or a Connected Learning TV topic of your choice.

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Hive Learning Events

Hive Learning Events are gatherings that bring network practice and connected learning principles to life for an inter-generational audience. Examples include Pop-Ups, Hack Jams, media production sessions, Maker Faires and other events. These events are branded in two ways:

Hive Pop-Ups have an intentional program design towards fostering a “Hanging Out, Messaging Around, Geeking Out” (HOMAGO) experience. For more on HOMAGO check out this handbook written by the Yollocalli Arts Center and Hive Chicago. At these events, multiple organizations come together with some of their best programs and deliver activities via learning stations tailored towards three levels of users:

  • Those who sample (Hang Out) by searching the room for what interests them most
  • Those who lightly experience all the activities offered (Messing Around)
  • A smaller but focused group who lock into one activity for the duration of the event (Geeking Out)

Participating educators and mentors get to both contribute to and observe what it’s like to see youth self-direct their learning and design their own experience in a networked space. Often the question, “Why Hive?” is better answered after seeing a Pop-Up in action: adults see youth interacting and learning with peers, remix and re-interpret their programs, become part of the energy in the room, and perhaps most importantly, see youth travel from different activities/interactions guiding their own path through the controlled chaos. We have distilled the Hive Pop-Up into a Webmaker Teaching Kit [ADD LINK]and this video details the Brooklyn Public Library Storymakers Maker Party/Hive Pop-Up. [A]

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Tier II: Operating a Hive Learning Community

Hive Learning Communities (HLC) begin to use the connected learning principles and the practices of Hive to operationalize a learning network. They draw heavily from the experience of existing Hive Learning Networks whose leaders function as consultants and mentors sharing information about structure, program design and strategy. Local facilitators then adapt tools, practices, frameworks to their local contexts. They are free to self-identify themselves as Hive and use the branding assets and developmental resources that are openly networked.

Specific characteristics might include:

  • Educator meet-ups
  • Recruitment and curation of affiliated organizations
  • Wider participation and implementation of communication networks

The Hive concept has really developed into a grassroots movement with Hive Learning Communities forming around the globe. Current examples include Hive India, Hive Bay Area, Hive Berlin and others.

Hive Community Engagement

Each Hive develops its own approach to interacting and facilitating the work of its community of participants and stakeholders. Hive's adult participants interact in real time and online through meet-ups, community calls, professional development workshops, funded collaborative partnerships and co-design charrettes. While some Hive cities work with specific member organizations and use memorandums of understandings, other Hive cities embrace an open structure, welcoming institutional participation without written commitments or agreements.

tk Generalized description of activities that every HLN does on an ongoing basis, potentially grouped as follows:

    • Catalytic Support & Project Assistance
    • Program Development & Field Building
    • Knowledge Sharing, Communication & Outreach
    • Documentation, Measurement & Assessment
    • Brief notes about unique things that certain HLNs do
    • Examples of cross-network initiatives/thematics (e.g., Hive Fashion)
    • Listing of major conferences of shared interest with significant Hive/Connected Learning representation: DML Conference, MozFest, World Maker Faire, SXSWedu

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Tier III: Building a Successful Hive Learning Network

Hive is both a networked community that learns together and a networked community for learning. As such, Hive programs describe the range of learning activities and events that Hive facilitators, leaders and participating organizations may offer to their community.

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Creating an Infrastructure for Innovation

Finding ways to distribute and share the learning outcomes of your Hive is an essential component to Hive’s open, participatory, production-focused model. Hive Learning Networks (and some Hive Learning Communities) are distinct in their ability to provide funding, consultation and support to seed and incubate collaborative partnerships between its participants and contributors. This ability to create new ideas, tools and practices enable Hive participants to test out their theories, try new things, and capitalize on the cross-disciplinary ties that develop within the network. Hive communities and networks make funds available through grants and other funding models, with Hive facilitators and leaders acting as advisors to an interdisciplinary panel of local leaders. In this way Hive cities create an infrastructure for innovation: seeding new projects, supporting their development and providing ongoing support to ensure that tools and practices can develop and scale. It is highly recommended that partnerships adopt creative commons licenses and use free and open tools so that outcomes can be more easily circulated and distributed.

Becoming an Official Hive Community or Network

As a model for ways to organize local stakeholders and seed local innovations, Hive models and practices have been adapted to a number of different communities. While local facilitators and community organizers are welcome to use Hive models and practices as a way to organize and convene local stakeholders. Local communities that would like to become official Hive Learning Communities are admitted through a review process of the Hive Global stewarding body. Hive Learning Communities are distinct in that they are not required to seed innovations through a grantmaking apparatus but do provide a sustainable mechanism for convening their community and providing equitable, participatory, Existing communities who would like to become full-fledged networks are admitted through a review process of the Hive Global stewarding body, MacArthur, Mozilla and a panel of independent stakeholders.

The minimum requirements for Hive Learning Networks are:

  • Demonstrated alignment and programmatic commitment to connected learning values and principles
  • At least one dedicated, full-time staff member
  • An operational budget of at least $150K/year
  • A grantmaking apparatus that seeds no less than $15K into the local ecosystem
  • Participation in Hive Global stewardship beyond home city

Specific characteristics of the networks include:

  • Demonstrated commitment to providing equitable, accessible connected learning and web literacy opportunities to youth
  • A laboratory-approach
  • Portfolio of funded partnerships
  • Cross-disciplinary collaboration
  • Incubation of inter-connected learning experiences for youth

Funding and Sustaining a Hive

Bringing Hive to your community and implementing Hive models requires funding, planning and strategy. Finding local stakeholders who can support Hive and its vision is an essential component of making a Hive community sustainable. While Hive practices and mechanisms can be bootstrapped or begun with minimal funds, in order to create a model that provides stable and reliable programming, innovations and interventions in your community, it is essential to find support.


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Impact, Outcomes, and Research

Case Studies

Hive NYC Learning Network

Hive NYC History

The history of Hive New York dates back to 2009 when the MacArthur Foundation asked three principal investigators, Diana Rhoten, Phoenix Wang, and Colleen Macklin to write a proposal for starting a learning network.

Initially called, New Youth City Learning Network, the network was designed to recognize that kids were pursuing their own interests and paving their own learning pathways by piecing together multiple sources of information and sites of interaction largely on their own—both in physical and virtual spaces.

Rhoten, Wang and Macklin proposed that a network with a focus on learning could help more kids make these vital, “geeky” connections.

Along with MacArthur, this group of investigators curated six NYC-based, youth-serving organizations to become the founding members of The New Youth City Learning Network. Those organizations were: Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum, Global Kids, MOUSE, New York Hall of Science, New York Public Library and Parsons The New School for Design.

Parsons was identified as the design and technology production node, established to assist the other organizations in creating new, relevant learning products for a connected and networked environment. The Center for Social Sciences Research was identified as the steward and research partner.

After a formal request for proposals, three initial projects were chosen. The projects were asked to adhere to the following guidelines:

  • At least three organizations serving as collaborators
  • A commitment to the Citizen Scientist, Designer, Journalist paradigm
  • A readiness to leverage ideas about neighborhoods and local, situated learning

During Fall 2009 at NYC's first World Maker Faire, New Youth City Learning Network featured its collaborative projects.

In 2010, The New York Community Trust and the MacArthur Foundation joined together to create Hive Digital Media Learning Fund in New York Community Trust so that, together, kids, teachers, scientists, and artists can design new and exciting ways to learn, create, and participate beyond the classroom.

Hive NYC Case Study: Hive as Learning Laboratory

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Hive Chicago

Hive Chicago's mission is to transform the learning landscape by empowering youth and educators to enact connected learning through a diverse network of civic and cultural institutions. Our 50+ member organizations are serving youth in a variety of in-school and out-of-school contexts. As a network of organizations united in service to youth, we pursue our goals by empowering adult educators in their service to Chicago teens.

Read more about Hive Chicago current plans on their 2014 page

History of Hive Chicago

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Hive Pittsburgh

The Hive Learning Network supports connected learning experiences in the Greater Pittsburgh region that help prepare tweens, teens, and young adults for college, the workforce, and civic participation. Hive Pittsburgh programs happen in schools, museums, libraries, afterschool programs, community centers, and on the web.

Hive Learning Networks are connected learning in action. Situated in urban centers, these networks re-imagine how learning is organized and supported across youth-serving organizations. Every day, young people move among learning experiences in a variety of environments, from formal classroom-based schooling to informal educational settings like museums and libraries, to virtual communities and social networks.

Hive links together these multiple environments to create Connected Learning experiences in which youth can participate in accessible, “anytime, anywhere” learning activities by pursuing their interests and following their peers. Visit HivePGH.org to learn more.

Read more about Hive Pittsburgh on their page

History of Hive Pittsburgh

Case Study

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Hive Toronto

Since its first iteration in 2012, Mozilla Hive Toronto Learning Network has emerged as a dynamic force for learning and engagement. A thriving collaboration with 42 youth-serving member organizations across the city, Hive Toronto has engaged more than 3,500 youth and educators in connected learning experiences through funded programs and public events.

  • For youth, Hive Toronto creates opportunities that enable learning through hands-on making and exploration with peers and mentors, and that develop digital and web literacy skills for future success.
  • For educators, including youth-serving organizations, formal and informal educators, designers, makers, artists and technologists, Hive Toronto offers the opportunity to inspire and be inspired through shared commitment and participation in building innovative and transformative educational experiences for youth.
  • For partners, technologists and tool-builders, Hive Toronto a distributed learning lab that provides opportunities to mentor young makers and inventors, playtest and provide feedback for new prototypes, and develop new approaches and tools with learning innovators.

For more on Hive Toronto see their page

History of Hive Toronto

Case Study

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Annotated Resources

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