Kits to Teach the Web

Webmaker content, illustrated through a series of community-driven Teaching Kits, is a shared responsibility between Webmaker Product Team, Community Team, and mentors.

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. Instead they are intended for teaching any tool or method that aligns with the culture, citzenship and mechanics of the web.

Teaching kits are open source and modular. They use web technology so users can easily modify ("remix") and understand them, and building on the MakeAPI, users can discover teaching kits on webmaker.org and embed them on nearly any site on the web. Usage and contributions to kits will show up in Webmaker user profiles as well as be acknowledged by badges.

Definitions

Web Literacy

Web Literacy is a subset of Digital Literacy skills focusing on the World Wide 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.

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

Tickets

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