Webmaker/Teach
Hacktivate Learning!
Who is this for? Educators of all shapes and sizes! With the recently identified focus on building a networked community of educators "hacktivated" by both Mozilla's operational approach and our Webmaking learning mission, a team is working to engage both individual educators as well as education systems and cohorts. We seek to hacktivate educators, all of them, from the public school teacher to the camp counselor, from university professors to museum directors, from the home schooler to a group of peers.
What does "hacktivate" mean? To "hack" something is to take something that already exists and change it to make something new: the Open Web community uses it in its original and positive sense. A person can hack physical things – like board games – or a person can hack the web. Hacking has always been a key element in the creative process. It is a constructive, collaborative activity, not a destructive one (Hacker Ethic, n.d.).
By combining the words "Hack" and "Activate" we playfully imply that educators can be activated by the idea of Web Literacy as the 4th R, the Open ethos and the Webmaker mission. Additionally, the word implies that they are activating web literacy skills in their own learners.
Already teaching webmaking?
Brian runs an organization that teaches web skills to senior citizens so that they can stay in touch with their families more easily. His organization holds events in over 10 cities worldwide. Most of his instructors are volunteers so he's looking for help figuring out lesson plans that are easy for volunteers to pick up.
Teaching, but not yet teaching webmaking?
Chantal leads an after school program for girls ages 8-10 and wants to get her kids interested in technology. She's looking for cool fun tools that the kids can use to build fun things, but also learn about the web in the process.
Tinkering in tech, thinking about teaching?
Aliyah teaches filmmaking at a local community college. One of her colleagues sends her a Popcorn demo. She decides to teach her students about the web because she believes that web-native movies are the next frontier in movie making. She wants to become web savvy alongside her students.
Table of Contents
Resources
- Webmaking Resources: Explicit resources that leverage webmaking/code as a teaching goal.
- Digital/Web Literacy: Resources that either leverage webmaking skills in a project based context to teach other learning objectives or resources that teach various aspects of digital literacy (good search, copy paste, etc)
- Youth and Participant Development: Resources that catalogue best practices, techniques, etc that how to work with youth or other specific target groups. Participant management, digital citizenship, best practices, etc
- Creativity/Production: Resources and materials that guide in teaching participants how to build, develop skills, ability and desire to create/produce things. Example: It is hard to build a webpage without skills on ideation, design etc. It is hard to make a good popcorn piece without some skills in video making. This is basically a catch all for resources that fall under broader "making" moniker: Media making, physical computing, electronics...
How can I contribute?
Everyone can pitch in! We're always looking for innovate ways to teach web literacies. There are a ton of ways to contribute, and all of them are super valuable for this budding community:
- Use your powers for good and teach webmaking at every opportunity
- File bugs on Webmaker software
- Write a blog post that helps people teach a specific aspect of webmaking or your reflections on Hacktivation as a concept
- Shoot some video of learning in action
- Pitch in and help a project embed learning into their tool/web presence/strategy
- Help us create new learning projects, resources, publish your own learning materials and resources here on the wiki.
- Become a tester
- Help us localize and translate
- Share your ideas, successes, failures.
- Share with each other and with Mozilla as a whole.
- Contribute to the conversation of Making Webmakers.