Students as webmakers: Exploring, building, and connecting online
- Type
- Journal article
- Venue
- Reading Today
- Year
- 2015
- Topics
- webliteracy · digital-literacy · mozilla
Citation
O'Byrne, W Ian; Belshaw, Doug. (2015). Students as webmakers: Exploring, building, and connecting online. Reading Today.
Abstract
Many existing standards and frameworks associated with digital literacy instruction focus on understanding the web. This piece goes further — arguing that all users have a stake in the web as a read/write medium, and that educators and students should be empowered to act as not only users but makers of the web. The article provides an overview of the Mozilla Web Literacy Map (Exploring, Building, Connecting strands) and practical guidance for integrating it into classroom instruction. The three strands are intertwined: exploring, building, and connecting online cannot be taught in isolation.
Notes
Companion to the May 2015 JAAL column: [[McVerry2015 - guiding Students they Explore, Build,]]. This Reading Today piece is the practitioner-facing version of the same web literacy framework — shorter, more classroom-oriented, written with Doug Belshaw who led much of the Mozilla Web Literacy Map development.
Connected Concepts
- [[Digital Literacy Framework]]
- [[New Literacies]]
- [[Four Cs of Digital Literacy]]
- [[ORMS MOOC]]