Last week it was announced that I was selected as one of the Mozilla Network 50. This initiative seeks to identify the 50 people that made the Internet a better place in 2016. Let me first say that I’m honored by this opportunity and I’ll believe that there are many others that are far more…
The work with the Mozilla Web Literacy Map is coming to a break in the action as the work cycle for the Badge Alliance Digital & Web Literacy Working Group is coming to an end. It seems this is a good time to pause our work and identify exactly where we stand at this point…and…
I recently had the privilege to spend about 45 minutes with my good friend Doug Belshaw to discuss our work on the Mozilla Web Literacy Map. Doug is on a quest to “push pause” on our work with the #weblitmap to talk with some people to figure out what direction we should head next. I…
I written several times about the initiative underway with Mozilla with to develop and release a new Web Literacy Standard. The great folks leading the way behind the development of these web literacies have released a formal “request for comments” (RFC). To view the announcement on Doug Belshaw’s blog, please visit this page….or here on…
The Internet is the defining text of this generation. We use it as a space to read, write, communicate, socialize, and participate globally. This technology facilitates access to an unlimited amount of online information in a participatory learning space. Literacy means many different things to different people. For me, literacy involves the knowledge, skills, and…
Version 2.0 of the Web Literacy initiative was released this past week at MozFest. To learn more about how we got to two…please review this post and watch the video embedded below. In this work I share an overview of the work we conducted over the past two to three years to get to this point,…
This week the video I produced with the help of Greg McVerry was released here as part of the K12 Online 2015 series of videos. In this video, we worked to document the work on the web literacy map up to version 1.5. You can read more about this work in the column we wrote…
Our column on Guiding Students as They Explore, Build, and Connect Online was just published in JAAL. I co-wrote the column with Greg McVerry and Doug Belshaw. As a supplement to the column, we invited a series of experts to spend some time discussing the broader impact of the details presented. The end result is a series…
Our column on Guiding Students as They Explore, Build, and Connect Online was just published in JAAL. I co-wrote the column with Greg McVerry and Doug Belshaw. As a supplement to the column, we invited a series of experts to spend some time discussing the broader impact of the details presented. The end result is a series…
As I’ve detailed throughout this blog I’ve spent a lot of time writing, revising, and helping to promote the use of the Web Literacy standard/map/initiative. After Doug Belshaw left Mozilla, I was concerned with the future of the web literacy work. Recently Doug wrote about a post by Mark Surman, Executive Director of the Mozilla…