Web Literacy
- Samantha Stewart
- Apr 3, 2018
- 1 min read
We, as teachers, know that being web-literate is a 21st century skill that we want all of our students to learn. What many don't know is that there are many different skills that go into becoming web-literate. Mozilla does a great job at explaining what those are on its website:
Looking at this image, we see that there are three main factions of being web-literate: Participating, Writing, and Reading. Each of these has different aspects as well, for example: being able to participate means you must learn to connect with others, protect your privacy, foster open and universal use for all, contribute your ideas, and share your work with others. This means that each of these smaller skills must also be fostered. The good thing about this is that it allows us as educators to focus on some of the smaller skills we want to foster in certain assignments and do just that, rather than choosing a huge skill such as being able to digitally 'write'.
Another aspect of this website is that it shows how each of these web literacy skills is related to the 21st century skills of problem-solving, communication, creativity, and collaboration. This is helpful because we can foster both of these sets of skills at the same time, which allows for more worthwhile assignments and learning.
This website is also great because it gives examples of activities that would help to foster each of the skills if you are wondering how to. All in all, this is a great resource for a teacher who wants to foster web-literacy in their classroom.
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