What I’m doing at #MozFest 2014
It’s the Mozilla Festival this weekend. If you’re going and it’s your first time, then you might find my 10 survival tips for MozFest useful.
I’m co-leading three sessions this year. I’ll update this post when I know when and where they all are! (Done!) Here’s an overview of what to expect in each session.
Prototypes and Pathways for Web Literacy
Saturday, 2-3pm, Track: Build and Teach the Web
Learning pathways are either prescriptive or descriptive sequences of learning experiences. These often have a particular goal in mind.
This session will involve the creation of a privacy badge pathway. We will draw on the Web Literacy Map, Open Badges, Webmaker personas, and a document created by a Badge Alliance working group. By the end of the session we should have completed pathways to share, built to work in a particular context.
Co-facilitator:
- Karen Smith (Mozilla & University of Toronto)
What we’ll be doing:
- Sharing our experiences of high-quality learning pathways
- Thinking through privacy from the point of view of one of eight Webmaker personas
- Exploring the badges created by the Badge Alliance working group on Digital & Web Literacies
- Creating a learning pathway based on the above contexts and badges
I’m looking forward to seeing what people come up with in this session. Preparing for it has involved much cutting out of colourful hexagons… 😉
Learning Analytics for good in the age of Big Data
Saturday, 3-4pm, Track: Science and the Web
According to the current Wikipedia definition, “Learning analytics is the measurement, collection and reporting of data about learners and their contexts, for purposes of understanding and optimising learning and the environments in which it occurs.” In other words, using data to improve learning outcomes. At the moment, this is often done without the consent of users, so we want to build a better, more open, way to do it.
Co-facilitators:
- Adam Lofting (Mozilla)
- Simon Knight (PhD student & Wikimedia UK trustee)
- Andrew Sliwinksi (Mozilla)
What we’ll be doing:
- Identifying the challenges and opportunities in this space
- Making connections between one another
- Building a shared list of questions
It’s early days for this, but there’s potential to form a working group as an output of this session.
Toward v2 of Mozilla’s Web Literacy Map
Sunday, 12.30-1.30pm, Track: Build and Teach the Web
At the end of August we started the ball rolling for v2.0 of the Web Literacy Map. It’s not that there’s lots wrong with v1.1, it’s just that there’s ways we could improve it. Plus, we’ve committed to update it as the web evolves.
We began by interviewing stakeholders. This informed a community survey (still active – and now available in more languages). We’ve also just begun a series of community calls that will end in December. This session will give us extra data to help inform development the Web Literacy Map.
Co-facilitators:
- Kim Wilkens (TechGirls)
- Ibrahima Saar (Teacher & Mozillian)
- Alvar Maciel (Teacher & Mozillian)
- Tom Salmon (Teacher & Mozillian)
What we’ll be doing:
- Answering any questions people may already have
- Spotting any gaps in v1.1 of the Web Literacy Map
- Grouping competencies (existing and new) in various ways
- Discussing what should be in/out of scope for v2.0
This will be an interesting session to lead, so I’m glad I’ve got such experienced co-facilitators. There’s likely to be both people well-versed in the Web Literacy Map as well as those coming to it for the first time.
Are you coming to MozFest? Please do come and say hello – or even better, come to one of the above sessions!
