Webmaker/Teaching Kits

Kits that Teach the Web

The Web Literacy Map is a flexible specification of the skills and competencies that Mozilla and our community of stakeholders believe are important to pay attention to when getting better at reading, writing and participating on the web -- and the main way our community illustrates these skills is through Teaching Kits.

Teaching Kits are a collection of resources and activities that guide a user to teach a web literacy competency (or competencies). The use, adaptation and creation of teaching kits is an essential contribution pathway for the Webmaker community and its partners.

Teaching kits are not only about Webmaker tools -- they can be built to teach any tool or method that aligns with the culture, citzenship and mechanics of the web. Teaching kits are also designed to be open source and modular. They use web technology so users can easily modify ("remix") and understand them.

We also aim to ensure kits are discoverable across the web. By building on the MakeAPI, users can "discover" teaching kits on webmaker.org and then embed them on nearly any other website. A user's contributions to kits can also show up in Webmaker user profiles as well as be acknowledged by badges.

Definitions

Here is a quick glossary of some of the terms we use to describe the working parts of a Kit within the community. You can also find the full run-down of applicable terms on our /Terminology page.

Kit

A kit is a modular collection of activities and/or resources at Webmaker.org.

We can add modifiers for clarity:

• Teaching Kit: a collection for how to teach a web literacy competency or competencies
• Event Kit
• User Testing Kit
• Codesign Kit
• etc.

Activity

An activity is a something you do with other people together. Many of these are documented and tagged on webmaker.org.

Examples:

• Spectrogram
• Sprint
• Jam
• Event
• etc.

Resource

A resource is something that supports teaching or learning in an autonomous context.

Resources might be:

• Tutorials, templates, Starter Makes, Makes
• Discussion Guide, Reading, Cookbook (ie Hive Cookbook)
• images, links, videos

To avoid confusion, consider all of the things listed above *types* of kits, activities or resources. Most of these terms have been deprecated, but there are instances where we still need the terminology for one reason or another.

Content Roadmap

We have several shared goals this year for Teaching Kits. We want to fill the Web Literacy Map with outstanding teaching kits, open educational resources and activities that are creative and fun to use -- and most importantly, we want kits to teach the web 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 content 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.)

Q1

• Run 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 help fill some aspects of the map (e.g., Remix, HTML/CSS, Privacy). Model best practices.

• Prototype some new tools that teach aspects of the map. Show how new tools and prototypes can help teach the Web Lit Map and publish to the MakeAPI.

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

Feed our curriculum into Maker Party. Tell stories about community using, adapting, and contributing that curriculum in the field. Leverage Maker Party as a giant field-testing, localizing and new curriculum contribution sprint.

• Deliverable

Q4

Key milestone / change of state / narrative

• Deliverable

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