Webmaker/Curriculum

Webmaker Curriculum design principles

• Webmaker curriculum is a shared responsibility between the Webmaker Product and Community Teams
  • The Product team needs curriculum to be world class. It is the primary way users will experience webmaker.org
  • The Community team needs curriculum to be an effective on-ramp to contribution.
• Our shared goal: fill the Web Literacy Map with outstanding teaching kits, open educational resources and activities that are creative, fun and deliver learning through making.
• We'll do that through:
  • 1) A community contribution campaign. Focused on one skill / competency at a time, working in the open with our lead users. Similar to a localization sprint or thermometer campaign.
  • 2) Contracted professionals. Domain experts who can build curriculum relevant to specific Web Lit skills. Work in tickets and deliver public facing work.
  • 3) Curation systems. Peer review and QA. Systems for reviewing and up-leveling the best work.
  • 4) Internal resourcing. Bespoke tools, content, and apps that team members from both Product and Community teams build. (e.g., building a specific app, video, or widget to help support a given teaching kit or activity.)

Curriculum Roadmap

Flesh out the Web Lit map with great activities, lesson plans and ways to teach and learn.

Q1

• Launch community curriculum campaign. Invite lead users to help fill out the Web Literacy Map. Creating new stuff and gathering existing best-of-breed resources from across the web.

• Hire some leading lights from our community to fill some aspects of the map - Remix, HTML/CSS, and Privacy

• Prototype some new tools that teach aspects of the map more efficiently than current Webmaker tools.

• Deliverable
• Deliverable
• Delierable

Q2

Test, localize and train around that first batch of curriculum. Use that momentum to gather more new great curriculum from community.

• Deliverable
• Deliverable
• Delierable

Q3

Key milestone / change of state / narrative

• Deliverable

Q4

Key milestone / change of state / narrative

• Deliverable

Tickets

• Tagged "Pathways" (coming soon)