Integrate Web Literacy
with
Hi!
Emma Irwin
@sunnydeveloper
And that's why I am a contributor to the Mozilla project.
Mozilla is a global, non-profit community dedicated to the mission of building an Internet that is :
Knowable: it’s transparent–we can see it and understand it
Interoperable: it presents opportunity to play and innovate
Ours: it’s open to everyone and we define it
Open Data
" There is a misplaced assumption that everybody knows what data is, and how useful it can be. Yet that’s not the case at all.
-Benedict Dellot, RSA Action and Research Institute
Web Literacy
There is misplaced assumption that youth today are empowered in technology; that they understand the Web is their to make.
Most don't.
- ME, Based on conversations with youth in British Columbia
even ...
Web literacy is NOT part of
British Columbia's curriculum
So that's a problem...
Mozilla Webmaker builds tools, curriculum and community for teaching the web.
Our mission is to teach and promote web literacy.
Web Literacy Map
The Web Literacy Standard is a map of competencies and skills that
Mozilla and our community of stakeholders believe are important to pay
attention to when getting better at reading, writing and participating
on the web. so how .
XRay Goggles
View and then Change Source.
App Maker
Webmaker.org
including teaching kits
Open Data Day 2013
Hacktivity
https://tiptoes.makes.org/thimble/open-data-day
NOw What?
Keep the discussion going…
Include educators and youth in your Open Data events
Join the Webmaker CommunitY
Webmaker Club
webmakerclub.org