Tara Brown - http://teachmestuff.net/
John
Philipp
2 Feb
- Tara is working with Mimi
- Build a platform that matches interest based learners with mentors
- 1-on-1 relationship
- How do we do this?
- Start with a curated pilot programme
- Pick a few communities
- Recruit people to the community
- Meet with coaches in person
- Offer coaches to students
- Model:
- No parameters
- No minimum time
- No required ways of collaborating (can use different tools, etc.)
- See what happens
- How do people structure their mentoring?
- Differences and similarities
- What's the ROI for mentors?
- Who signs up again? Recommends it to others? Why?
- Has developed surveys for mentors and mentees
- Because hosted at UCI some legal restrictions
- Youth mentoring only possible in US
- Outside US possible but only with adults
- Picked 3 pilots
- Starcraft - strategy game (learning from video games)
- Webdevelopers
- Recruited 12 personal friends (twitter, carbon five, etc ... )
- Digital Photograph Retouching
- Next ideas:
Tara - Ask:
- Help recruiting mentees for the pilot
- Start a conversation around doing something together
- P2PU mentoring
- Idea was to make "experts" available to participants in learning challenges
- Using jsfiddle and etherpad as tool to support mentoring
- Currently trying to add an off-line mentoring option
- Next steps of what we will build - an interface for mentorship
- Let mentees pick mentors (and vice versa)
- Recruiting mentors from the people who work through challenges
Web Dev Mentors/Mentee Surveys
Tara Notes:
- Review Learning Challenges
- How are goals established individually vs. school curriculum