Spread and Scale Strategies

of Hive Organizations

Hive NYC Community Meet-UpJuly 2014

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What’s spreading?

• “Digital Tools/Learning Experiences (e.g.: Parsons' Noisemaker microcontroller)

• Online communities/platforms (e.g.: Iridescent's Curiosity Machine)

• Program models/curricula (e.g.: Common Sense Media's Digital Literacy Curriculum)

• Event/Workshop Models (e.g.: Emoti-con, Movable Game Jam)

• Pedagogical approaches and best practices (e.g.: topic selection routines for issue-based media projects)

• Design Principles (e.g.: the Connected Learning principles; making learning interest driven, production centered, and peer-powered)

• Pedagogical Values (e.g.: equity, progress, empowerment, fun)

In what way?

• adoption • replication • adaptation • reinvention

(From Coburn’s Spread/Scale Framework)

Strategies

• “Physical” Footprint Expansion• “Virtual” Footprint Expansion • Open Educational Resources (OER)

Distribution • Professional Development• Consulting• Thought Leadership• Working Open

Questions to ask yourself

What form(s) of innovation I am trying to spread?

What conception(s) of scale am I aiming to achieve and how do they impact my strategy?

Questions to ask yourself

What changes need to be made to the innovation I'm trying to spread, the context I'm trying to spread to or through, or to my own organization in order to make spread viable?

Questions to ask yourself

What have others done that I can learn from? How can I make sure I learn along the way so that course corrections can be made?

Questions to ask yourself

What role(s) can I and do I want to play in the larger Hive ecosystem in terms of spread and scale issues?

What are roles I can see other organizations in the ecosystem playing in relation to my own strategy for scale?

Pair and Share (5/5/5)

What form(s) of innovation I am trying to spread?

What conception(s) of scale am I aiming to achieve and how do they impact my strategy?

What changes need to be made to the innovation I'm trying to spread, the context I'm trying to spread to or through, or to my own organization in order to make spread viable?

Thoughts/Reflections?

What’s my organization’s role in the ecosystem?

• Trainer of Trainers• Thought Leader• Open Innovator (sharing

discoveries/challenges)• Distribution Point• Program Adopter/Adapter• Strategy/Consultant

What’s my organization’s role in the ecosystem?

I am an X, and I’m looking for a Y.