Howdy! My name is Laura Hilliger. I Hacktivate Learning at Mozilla. I'm an unwavering idealist who fights for and protects the Open Web.
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is a community of people inspired by the belief that openness, innovation, and opportunity are integral to the continued health of the Internet.

is a mission driven, non-profit organization.

Mozilla's mission is to promote openness, innovation and opportunity on the web.

Individuals must have the ability to shape their own experiences on the Internet

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Learning through Making

• Interest driven, project based learning
• Connecting head and hand
• Really not a new idea

Open Educational Resources

• Open, Free, Remixable
• Aligning to the Web Literacy Standard
• Made by educators for everyone

Assessment

• Motivation
• Practice
• Intensity
• embedded assessments and other game mechanics
• Skill, Achievement, Participation und Contribution

Blended-Learning

• Both the production and consumption of learning materials is blended
• various workshop formats
• in-person crash courses
• online and offline materials

Learning Events

Hive Learning Networks

Hive NYC Members

Network Engagement

• Tools - tools that support remixing, making and sharing on the web, while building learning into the process. Thimble, Popcorn Maker and X-ray Goggles for now.
• Makes - projects, challenges, games and content that sit on top of the tools and guide people in making cool stuff and provide instructions and learning objectives.
• Badges - marking learning as it happens all across the web.
• Events - Webmaker comes to life through a global community creating projects and events, teaching more Webmakers and scaling impact.

And speaking of code...

The Web is built with code.

HTML, CSS and Javascript

The basic building blocks of the Web.

Look under the hood

with the XRay Goggles

Understanding the Web is a part of being educated.

• Klafki said you are educated when you can think critically about key problems
• The Web holds (most of) the world's information and humanity's knowledge
• It gives us an infrastructure to consider those problems and to help solve them (but only if we have the competencies and skills to do so)
• We need to be able to read as well as write

Program or be programmed

Learn to write

with Thimble

Understanding code isn't enough.

The 4th "R" and Beyond

We need to understand the web, which means understanding how computers work, but Web Literacies are also about the social skills that go with living in a digital world. Collaboration, Storytelling, Community, Civic Engagement, Self-Expression, Conviction, Critical Thinking...

Redefining Video

with Popcorn

Spreading a Movement

We live in a digital world.

• Our global knowledge ecosystem is the World Wide Web
• The Internet has become an important piece of our infrastructure
• We use the Internet to communicate, to work, to make decisions
• We need it to fully participate

the digital world is GIGANTIC

and Mozilla is rather small.

But Mozillians are passionate, and passion can lead to a better world.

one more thing...

one more thing...

YOU can help by sharing webmaking.