The mobbing manual provides guidelines for working in a group oriented context
- Kindness
- Consideration
- Respect
- Driver Learning Goal: practice keyboarding, listening, and translation skills.
- An intelligent keyboard
- Doesn't type unless directed
- Has a backseat driver role
- The driver can say, "IDK, I need help."
- Primary navigator
- Helps digest the group's ideas and pass them on to the driver Learning goal: to articulate actions/next steps, solve programming problems
- The person to the right of the driver. They get to navigate for fifteen minutes, while the driver is at the keyboard
- Backseat driver
- If the primary navigator doesn’t know what to do next, they can ask the rest of the group
- Express high-level intent. For example, say “show files” instead of “ls”.
- No reaching in when someone is at their keyboard. If someone reaches in, you yell “Hot Potato”.
- Keep a learning journal, recap what you learned at the end of the session.
- Be kind with other people’s equipment, and be gentle with keyboards.
- Keep regular breaks
- When people work remotely, try to loop them in.
- Respect the timer, but be flexible about times when there is a big group.