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Teaching open data & civic literacy in the streets’ of New York City. #771

Open mozfest-bot opened 7 years ago

mozfest-bot commented 7 years ago

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[ Session Name ] Teaching open data & civic literacy in the streets’ of New York City. [ Primary Space ] Web Literacy [ Secondary Space ] Digital Inclusion

[ Submitter's Name ] Noel Hidalgo [ Submitter's Affiliated Organisation ] BetaNYC [ Submitter's Github ] @BetaNYC

[ Additional facilitators ] Lauren Rennée,Emily Goldman

What will happen in your session?

Since fighting for the passage of NYC’s open data law, BetaNYC has sought collaborators on how to teach and empower the next generation of civic hackers. In 2014, BetaNYC was commissioned to develop an intro to open data course. It quickly became apparent that every day user environments would limit how the class could be taught. In 2015, BetaNYC started to develop novel approaches to teach within internet limited environments. In this session, we will walk you through our pedagogy and lead you to a road where the internet is limited, the data is limitless, and a card game is your guide. Join us for an hour-long journey to discuss data literacy, algorithms, civic architecture, and algorithms.

What is the goal or outcome of your session?

Participants will walk out of the session with a “mad libs” / “Cards Against Humanity” deck of cards and a new approach as how to teach civic / municipal data in an internet / computer constrained environment. Additionally, they will learn how to use municipal data as a tool for education, empowerment, and self-determination. This session will briefly talk about identifying community partners, teachable key data values, and how to build a deck of physical cards that enable the student to narrate and discuss data in a no-internet environment. At the end, we hope to gather feedback to improve the card game and discuss a shared space to share insights across the smart cities digital/literacy divide.

If your session requires additional materials or electronic equipment, please outline your needs.

While we can host this conversation without a projector, we desire a projector and electrical outlets.

Time needed

60 mins

ArtsAward commented 7 years ago

Hi @betaNYC, Thanks for your proposal. Can you let us know if you are able to attend without a travel stipend, or is the stipend absolutely required for you to come to Mozfest? Thank you!

noneck commented 7 years ago

Hi @ArtsAward, I didn't realize I should have put my personal GitHub account. We have some funds to send one person to MozFest, and will spend airline miles to get the other over. We seek funds to sponsor one, not three.

flukeout commented 7 years ago

Hi @noneck - unfortunately we will not be able to accept your session at this year's festival. We had many excellent submissions and simply do not have enough travel stipends available to accommodate everyone. Thanks for your understanding and for submitting.

cc @kenyatta1 from your secondary space choice

kenyatta1 commented 7 years ago

Hey @flukeout ! Thanks! Unfortunately we do not have any more stipends.

noneck commented 7 years ago

@kenyatta1 @flukeout that's a real shame. As i pointed out, some of us could travel without a stipend. Second, it is a shame that y'all don't think there is any space for this type of session.

As someone who has attended MozFest for the past two years, no one is working near the work we are doing in NYC. We would love to share our learnings with "the MozFest," and know that we have something that is at the bleeding edge of civic/data/web literacy.

Could y'all provide any feedback as to why this isn't MozFest'able? We'd love to know what you think see as mozfest'able.

flukeout commented 7 years ago

Hey @noneck - we unfortunately are out of stipends. When assigning those we wanted to strike a balance between with respect to geographical diversity and also ability for the presenters to otherwise have similar opportunities. We definitely recognize the quality of the proposal though.

Also, my bad for misreading / missing the point about being able to sponsor a person on you own. We DO have a couple of spots left in our space for sessions that don't require a stipend and so I would be happy to accept you there - if that works for you, please let me know as soon as you can. We could try to arrange a co-facilitator to have a presence over video conferencing or something like that as well.

Cheers.

flukeout commented 7 years ago

I'll add the Web Literacy back milestone for now.

noneck commented 7 years ago

@flukeout thanks for the update. Lauren and I would love to participate. While we were interested in a 90 min session, we are flexible and can shorten this engagement down to 60 mins. Lets us know what works for your schedule.

flukeout commented 7 years ago

Sounds good @noneck - we'll consider you a part of the space now, welcome! We'll reach out over the next little while as we figure out the space & schedules. Cheers.

jonathanprozzi commented 7 years ago

Hello @noneck! As MozFest is approaching we’re asking that you reply to this issue with an outline of the topics and activities for your session. A rough, bullet-point outline with time estimates would be ideal.

I saw you were also willing to shorten your session to 60 minutes. This would actually be a huge help for us as we have a very limited amount of 90 minute spots. Thank you and let us know if you have any questions.

noneck commented 7 years ago

Hi @jonathanprozzi, I'm cc @lbrennee.

Let me update the whole thing...

[ Session Name ] Teaching digital civic literacy in the streets’ of New York. [ Primary Space ] Web Literacy [ Secondary Space ] Digital Inclusion

[ Submitter's Name ] Noel Hidalgo [ Submitter's Affiliated Organisation ] BetaNYC [ Submitter's Github ] @BetaNYC

[ Additional facilitators ] Lauren Rennée @lbrennee

What will happen in your session?

Since fighting for NYC’s open data law, BetaNYC has sought collaborators on how to teach and empower the next generation of civic hackers. In 2014, we were commissioned to develop an intro to open data course, and we quickly learned that real world user environments limit how much could be taught. In 2015, we rethought our curriculum for internet constrained environments. In this session, we will walk you through our pedagogy and down a path where the internet is limited yet the data is limitless. Join us for an hour-long journey to discuss data literacy/basis, civic architecture, and algorithms.

What is the goal or outcome of your session?

Participants will walk out of the session with a “mad libs” / “Cards Against Humanity” deck of cards and a new approach as how to teach civic / municipal data in an internet / computer constrained environment. Participants will learn how to use municipal data as a tool for community empowerment, and self-determination. We will briefly talk about identifying community partners, teachable key data values, and how to build a deck of cards that enable the student to narrate and discuss data in a no-internet environment. We hope to gather feedback to improve the card game and discuss a shared space to share insights across the smart cities digital/literacy divide.

If your session requires additional materials or electronic equipment, please outline your needs.

While we can host this conversation without a projector, we desire a projector and electrical outlets.

Time needed

60 mins

Session Agenda

edovio commented 7 years ago

Dear Facilitators, we are happy to share with you the MozFest facilitators 2017 Guide at the Link: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1fezzIH8u0Li6pIHMNYDCuUjA_gHpB4Px9eXQo4Ol7es/edit It is also important to sign in here: https://public.etherpad-mozilla.org/p/festival.fabriders.facilitatorcoaching2017 for the coaching session, that helps you in your facilitation role! :)

flukeout commented 7 years ago

Thanks for the update on the outline @noneck - we'll be reaching later in the week with a draft schedule for the space!

noneck commented 7 years ago

Thanks @flukeout & @edovio. We've signed up.

We're looking forward to the slack invite.

flukeout commented 7 years ago

Thanks @noneck! Will Lauren and Emily be attending in person? We were talking about maybe doing some kind of Remote mentoring depending on your travel circumstances.

If they are, could you please send me their email addresses to luke@mozillafoundation.org - I'll need them to send out tickets and grant them access to the session in the scheduling app.

flukeout commented 7 years ago

Edited - updated session length to 60 mins.

flukeout commented 7 years ago

Hello @noneck, we've created the first version of the Web Literacy Space schedule for the weekend and wanted you to have a look...

Please take a few minutes to locate your session (I've had to abbreviate the session names) and let us know if you have any questions or if there are any reasons that you cannot host your session during the chosen time (like a travel conflict or another session you are hosting at the same time). Please comment in this issue and and include @flukeout to get my attention.

We'll be finalizing the schedule next week and updating the Guidebook app that attendees will use during the festival.

Thanks!

flukeout commented 7 years ago

One last question for now @noneck - are you interested in connecting with Matteo. He's attending this year and has led sessions about using games to teach about social issues at previous Mozfests and might be interesting to talk to? He's interested in connecting, so let me know if you are interested and I'll connect you.

noneck commented 7 years ago

@flukeout i'd love to talk with Matteo.

also, i see that we're back to our 90 min schedule. that's great. thanks. lastly, our transit plans means we can't go on sunday after 1.

matteomenapace commented 7 years ago

Hey @noneck I'm looking forward to your session! Hopefully it won't clash with another session that I'm going to attend by Nicky Case and Alex Dytrych on explorable explanations

Thanks for connecting us @flukeout :)

noneck commented 7 years ago

@matteomenapace THANKS! i'd love to circle us via email to schedule a time to chat. I just sent you an email.