We're talented!
We need to help #teachtheweb.
FITC Amsterdam 2014
photo via MozEU
I'm Laura Hilliger. I work at Mozilla to help a global community of lifelong learners build & teach the web.
Questions?
@epilepticrabbit, #teachtheweb
Want more?
http://zythepsary.com
I wasn't supposed to be working...
I taught people how to make things
IRL and Online
Learning, Freedom and the Web
design by Chris Appleton
Mozilla - they make Firefox, right?
Yes, we make Firefox, but...
is a mission driven, non-profit organization.
Mozilla's mission is to promote openness, innovation and opportunity on the web.- The Mozilla Mission
Learning, Freedom and the Web
design by Chris Appleton
is a community of people united by a common purpose – to build the Internet society needs. We think we need an Internet that is open, so we can make and do more.
Humans need connection.
image by David Boswell
The Web is an ecosystem of knowledge.
The Opte Project
Structural Crisis
the age between ages
Digital Native
a myth, most people aren't great with technology
Copyright ©2014 Rolling Stone; fair use, thanks.
29% Adults 18 - 50
How do we solve global problems,
if we can't communicate with each other?
Individuals must have the ability to shape their own experiences on the Internet
culture + mechanics = citizenship
- People who love the web ...
- Take action ...
- To teach other people to about the web.
Look under the hood
with the XRay Goggles
Learn to write
with Thimble
Redefining Video
with Popcorn
Open Educational Resources
- Open, Free, Remixable
- Aligning to the Web Literacy Map
- Made by a coalition of educators, technologists, artists, etc
- webmaker.org/teach
photo by Doug Belshaw
Blended-Learning
- various workshop formats
- in-person crash courses
- online and offline materials
Spreading a Movement
believes that we can all spread Web Literacies by learning and making together. That's why we run in-person trainings and events like the Mozilla Festival.
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 write as well as read
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. https://webmaker.org/
https://etherpad.mozilla.org/helpteachtheweb