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Hacktivate Learning!

Hello and welcome to the Webmaker Educactor Resource Wiki This page is a first and important step in aggregating, curating and developing a diverse resource for a global community of educators to share and use. Mozilla is deeply committed to building a network of practice around the best tools, theories and activities that advance the importance of web and digital literacies. We fundamentally believe that learning designs which moves people from consumption to production are the clearest paths to the protection of the participatory nature of web.

Are you an educator? We think that if you are motivated to teach something to other people then you are. We aspire to have a big tent where scout masters, peer mentors, English teachers, librarians, after-school coordinators, volunteers, tenured professors, artists and engineers can contribute and engage. Just like the people who took pride in loading Firefox onto friends and families computers we want you to be driven by a desire to help others to create on the web.

What we are going to build:

  • A multi-tentacled outreach campaign that seeks to find educators who share and are inspired by this mission and plant signposts and salons for engagement and action
  • Partnerships with like-minded organizations, companies, programs, foundations, governments and other networks who share in a collective Webmaker vision
  • Learning Labs like our Hive Learning Networks that establish cities and locales as powerful connected drivers and beta testers for learning innovations
  • Platforms and spaces for educators to learn, explore, iterate and design learning materials that both support their work and build a collective community of practice
  • Documentation, case studies and best practices on integrating web and digital literacy thinking into learning programs
  • A dynamic and rich user driven Open Education Resource repository that seeks to house tools that support all strands of production based learning. (See below)
  • A networked community with a multitude of hubs, nodes and pathways that both individuals and systems to plug into.

    "Hacktivate Learning" that is what we are setting out to do. Combining the words "Hack" and "Activate" is our benevolently subversive siren call to educators who are motivated by the ideas of "4th R"-Web Literacy, an open ethos and the Webmaker mission.

    So come start to Hack with us and use, add to and improve the resource we are beginning to collect here.

    We're still working on this wiki! Please give us your feedback, use the discussion pages, edit, add resources, etc.

    • 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.

    Webmaking Resources | Help Out

    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.

    Webmaking Resources | Learn More

    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.

    Webmaking Resources | Level Up

    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.

    Relevant Blog Posts

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