Given the recent events surrounding rights, freedoms, and literacy on the Internet, I would like to continue to reach out to interested parties to develop an Internet Bill of Rights. I believe this needs to be a grassroots effort that is collaboratively developed and promoted globally. To that end, I started up a document that…
The Internet is the dominant text of this generation. In order to be considered fully literate, individuals need to be able to read, write, and participate using the web. It is a paradox that history’s first generation of always connected individuals does not have the skills and practices necessary to survive, let alone succeed in…
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…
Our column on Computational Participation: Understanding coding as an extension of literacy instruction was recently published in JAAL. I co-wrote the column with Quinn Burke and Yasmin Kafai. 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…
In a previous post I discussed my planning and thoughts around a Pecha Kucha style talk that I gave while at LRA 2013. This past year at LRA 2014, I worked with colleagues to develop a session in which we gathered a series of literacy researchers to each define our versions of “text.” Each of…
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…
This October, I’ll be presenting a session with Greg McVerry at the 2015 K-12 Online Conference. Our session will be released on Tuesday, October 27th. Our session will focus on the Web Literacy Map, Version 1.5 and opportunities to embed reading, writing, and participation on the web and in your classroom. Video remix teaser As…
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 of short video…
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 of short video…