An Introduction to ‘Teaching the Web’ and ‘Web Literacy’

What is “web literacy” and why should we teach it? How does creating/remixing the web help strengthen learning?

On Thursday, January 15 from 9-10am PT (12-1pm ET), we introduced the philosophy behind Mozilla Webmakers.

This webinar was part of a January 2015 series titled “Empowering Lifelong Learners by ‘Teaching the Web’ with Mozilla Webmaker”. Check out all the details at http://bit.ly/teachingtheweb.

From this Series:

• Part 2—How the Webmaker Community Is Helping Youth Be Creative and Curious
• Part 3—Ongoing Learning Opportunities with Mozilla Webmaker

View the Conversation
During the broadcast, the conversation also took place on Twitter using the hashtags #connectedlearning and #TeachtheWeb.

Guests for this webinar included:

• Doug Belshaw – Web Literacy Lead for Mozilla
• Ian O’Byrne – Assistant Professor of Educational Technologies at the University of New Haven and Mozilla contributor
• Greg McVerry – researcher and teacher educator at Southern Connecticut State University; e-editor of the Literacy Research Association

Resources for this webinar:

• Webmaker.org
• The “Web Literacy Map” version 1.1.0 (as of Jan. 2015)
• The “Webmaker Whitepaper” (Why Mozilla Cares about Web Literacy)
• Email listserv: “Webmaker — Tools, projects and events for webmakers”
• Webmaker Resources for teaching and learning
• “Web Literacy Learning Pathways” map via Laura Hilliger
• Laura Hilliger blog post: “Prove that people want to remix curriculum.”
• Mozilla wiki page for Web Literacy Map development
• Web Literacy Map tumblr (recordings of community calls, etc.)
• “Guiding Students as they explore, build, and connect online” – upcoming journal article by our guest speakers
• Q&A with Mozilla’s Mark Surman on how Connected Learning powers the Webmaker work
• Doug’s blog about development of Web Literacy Map, and more
• Ian’s blog about New Literacies
• Greg’s blog posts about teaching the web

Photos/Mozilla Webmaker’s Web Literacy Map

#ConnectedLearning Discussion on Twitter