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Web Literacy Map – 1.1.0
Mozilla defines web literacy as the skills and competencies needed for reading, writing and participating on the web. To chart these skills and competencies, Mozilla worked alongside a community of stakeholders to create the Web Literacy Map (below):
You can read all about the project, how it got started and why on the Mozilla site. Spend some time on it and come back here for your assignment
Do This!
In the drop box provided on Canvas, answer the following questions to formulate your thoughts on this project:
- What are your initial thoughts on this project? Meaningful? necessary?
- Do you think this project is an honest attempt by Mozilla to open up the Web and make it ‘open source’? or perhaps a little self-serving?
- What do you think prompted Mozilla to begin this initiative?
- Did you learn anything new? How do you think this project may influence you are a future Web designer, if at all?
- How does this all fit into this course in terms of the major threads/lines of thought that have seemed to come up as the course evolved?