The following is based on my doctoral thesis, my experience as Web Literacy Lead at the Mozilla Foundation, and the work that I’ve done as an independent consultant, identifying, developing, and credentialing digital skills and literacies.
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Information and digital literacy in education via the digital path
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Literacy in a digital education world and peripheral issues.
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Elizabeth E Charles
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My first big assignment in 2017 (aside from successfully pulling off our annual conference) was to create a training plan for a 3-hour session for librarians at Brooklyn Public Library on web literacy. I was grateful for the input of BPL’s Director of Customer Experience on shaping the plan for the day, and thrilled as always to work with one of my web literacy partners in crime to make the training a success. 
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As a companion “Best” list to The Best Resources For Learning Research & Citation Skills, I thought it would be useful to create this one.
Elizabeth E Charles's insight:
A great selection of tools and lessons that can be cherry picked in the teaching of information literacy.
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Few weeks ago we shared Mozilla Learning’s Web Literacy Wheel featuring a number of key skills and competencies for 21st century students. Today we are adding another great resource from Mozilla Learning to help teachers prepare digitally savvy students who can ‘read, write and participate on the web’.
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We want more people to see themselves as citizens of the web. The Mozilla Learning Network offers programs and a global community dedicated to helping people learn the most important skills of our age: the ability to read, write and participate in the digital world.
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A Definition Of Web Literacy (And How Students Can Benefit)
Reading, writing and arithmetic are the cornerstones of education. While the methods for teaching them may vary, the three Rs are timeless and universal. They equip learners with the skills necessary to interact and participate in the world. And they lay the groundwork for a set of more complex skills: critical thinking, collaboration, nonlinear thinking and others.
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We're a global community dedicated to teaching digital skills and web literacy. We explore, tinker and create together to build a web that's open and made by everyone.
Teach and learn digital skills and web literacy. The pages in this section are full of fun things to discover, make and teach. Our global community is continually adding new activities, lesson plans and tutorials from across the web that make it easy to learn by doing. Anyone can use these educational resources—they’re free, open and backed by Mozilla’s non-profit mission.
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A couple of months ago my extraordinarily productive and talented colleague, Laura Hilliger, created something epic: a huge spreadsheet of dependencies and next steps for the Web Literacy Map. From this she, used her HTML, CSS and JavaScript... | Doug Belshaw | Web Literacy Lead for the non-profit Mozilla Foundation.
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Impart vital information literacy skills to your students.
In a world of information overload, it is vital for students to be able to find information on the Web, as well as to determine its validity and appropriateness. Our web literacy materials demystify the process Web so you can impart the vital skills students need to be safe, successful 21st century learners.
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Where do you go if you want to get better at your web skills? How do you even know what's important to learn? The Web Literacy Standard comprises a map of competencies and skills 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. The Web Literacy Standard is part of Mozilla’s ongoing goal to create a generation of webmakers – those who can not only elegantly consume but also write and participate on the web. ...Read more
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This is an unabashedly practical guide for the student fact-checker. It supplements generic information literacy with the specific web-based techniques that can get you closer to the truth on the web more quickly. Via Nik Peachey
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Last Friday the Domains 17 organizing committee got to sit down and chat with Martha Burtis, keynote for the Domains 17 conference, to get a preview of what she’ll be presenting in June.…
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Welcome to the Health Library for North Staffordshire.
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The team from Mozilla have prepared a simple but very interesting chart showing which skills become essential in the era of the…
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Creative Commons Licensed Image Source Web Literacy is Essential for Today’s Learners One of the most important skills of the 21st century — web literacy — is often overlooked in the classroom. The ability to read, write and participate
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August 31, 2015 9:27 AM
WARNING- some fun coding activities in here!
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We're a global community dedicated to teaching digital skills and web literacy. We explore, tinker and create together to build a web that's open and made by everyone.
Teach and learn digital skills and web literacy. The pages in this section are full of fun things to discover, make and teach. Our global community is continually adding new activities, lesson plans and tutorials from across the web that make it easy to learn by doing. Anyone can use these educational resources—they’re free, open and backed by Mozilla’s non-profit mission.
Lewis Walker's curator insight,
July 7, 2014 6:44 AM
BFTAA salutes what Mozilla is doing to increase digital literacy.
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The Web Literacy Map is a map of competencies and skills 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. Keep up to date with the latest changes to the Web Literacy Map on the wiki.
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Bingo is an offline activity that can be used to help participants explore the knowledge and expertise of others in the room in relation to a web literacy topic of your choice.
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This slide show accompanied a keynote presentation given for the ICL conference in Villach, Austria on 28 September, 2012.
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10-step guide to web researching.
Trying to find out an accurate number for how many indexed webpages there are online is very difficult. Some websites believe there are 3,700,000,000 while others...
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At Google we believe in the power of education and the promise of technology to improve the lives of students and educators -- leading the way for a new generation of learning in the classroom and beyond. But no matter what subject you teach, it is important for your students to know how to think critically and evaluate online sources, understand how to protect themselves from online threats from bullies to scammers, and to think before they share and be good digital citizens.
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