Help Hackasaurus with their new P2PU Challenges  

Hackasaurus spreads skills, attitudes, and ethics that help youth thrive in a remixable digital world. By making it easy for youth to tinker and mess around with the building blocks that make up the web, Hackasaurus helps tweens move from digital consumers to active producers, seeing the web as something they can actively shape, remix…

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This Week’s Community Call – Party Time!  

This week’s community call was something a little different. Under the expert guidance of Chloe-the-challenge-guru, we had a party. Literally. This week’s challenge party was the badge edition, and we focused on brainstorming badges to associate with new challenges that have been created on p2pu.org, and how to build rubrics and assessments for these challenges…

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Learn How to Contribute to Science  

The Test4Theory team is excited to announce their first P2PU challenge to help people to become a volunteer contributor to scientific projects at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN). You might be more familiar with CERN’s giant particle accelerator, the famous Large Hadron Collider (LHC). Participants in the Test4Theory/P2PU challenge  will be welcomed into…

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P2PU in het Nederlands & en Español!  

Thanks to some of our brilliant community members Thieme Hennis and Alexis Hevia, P2PU Challenges are speaking two new languages!   Our first challenge in Dutch (for Dutch teachers) can be found here  and the ever-popular Webmaking 101 Challenges have now been translated into Spanish here. Lekker!

Announcing the OKFN & P2PU School of Data!  

The following post is by Rufus Pollock, Director and Co-Founder of the Open Knowledge Foundation, and Philip Schmidt, Co-Founder and Executive Director of Peer 2 Peer University. Today, we’re announcing plans for a School of Data. The School will be a joint venture between theOpen Knowledge Foundation and Peer 2 Peer University (P2PU). We also welcome other organizations…

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How a Poet Learned to Program  

We recently kicked off a mentoring program at P2PU to help people learn web development. We’re in the pilot stage, but we’re looking forward to opening up for everyone very soon. Here’s a first hand look into what the program is like from the view of one of my mentees. Vanessa Gennarelli is a P2PU…

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New School of Ed Courses are Ready for Signup!  

The P2PU School of Ed is happy to announce a new round of free, open-licensed professional learning groups for educators that will start March 5. These courses are available for sign-up now: Student Grant Writing – A group for high school teachers and students interested in writing a grant to fund a local school project. Empower Your Personal Learning — Taking…

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