The latest Hive NYC member news and links:

• The Queens Library Tumblr has lots of helpful information about how the library branches are serving residents still recovering from Hurricane Sandy. They have provided much-needed comfort to the community, from electronics charging stations and free wifi and computer usage to book readings for youth while their parents were receiving donations. We’re proud of their efforts and are awaiting more details on how we can help moving forward.
• Spotlight on Alston Green, a participant in the Hive-funded Intergenerational Media Literacy Program where seniors and teens work together to remix commercials with ageist stereotypes. The program is a collaboration between The LAMP, Museum of the Moving Image, and OATS.
• Global Kids’ digital summer program was featured in Pittsburgh’s Kidsburgh, following National Summer Learning Association (NSLA) Conference in October.
• MoMA just launched a new destination for teaching and learning about modern and contemporary art – www.moma.org/momalearning

And here’s more recommended reading/viewing:

• MIT Media Lab recap from MozFest 2012
• You Can Make What You Imagine: Hsing Wei at TEDxOrangeCoast
• Top Ed-Tech Trends of 2012 by Audrey Watters
• From the fight over and possibilities of MOOC’s by Clay Shirky:

The possibility MOOCs hold out isn’t replacement; anything that could replace the traditional college experience would have to work like one, and the institutions best at working like a college are already colleges. The possibility MOOCs hold out is that the educational parts of education can be unbundled. MOOCs expand the audience for education to people ill-served or completely shut out from the current system, in the same way phonographs expanded the audience for symphonies to people who couldn’t get to a concert hall, and PCs expanded the users of computing power to people who didn’t work in big companies.

Those earlier inventions systems started out markedly inferior to the high-cost alternative: records were scratchy, PCs were crashy. But first they got better, then they got better than that, and finally, they got so good, for so cheap, that they changed people’s sense of what was possible.