focusing on the individual student's abilities and dispositions, educators have failed to grasp the social structures and dynamics that are required for progressive knowledge building of the kind Whitehead referred to. In effect, they have remained fixed on a pre-19th century model of science, dependent on "the occasional genius, or the occasional lucky thought."

xpert keep gaining in expertise while the less expert make little progress.

the poorer writers we studied approach the task in ways that minimize opportunities for growth, whereas the better writers maximize them.

Conventional wisdom has it that practice makes perfect and that expertise is the natural outcome of years of practice. But few people become good writers, no matter how much they write.

But as a society, we are not concerned with novices. Eventually they will quit being novices, without our having to do anything about it. The important question is what they will become. Will they become experts in their lines of work or will they swell the ranks of incompetent or mediocre functionaries?

“naming of things” as it applies to this work with the web literacy map. In the call, Marc Lesser shared a post from Clay Shirky that discussed why ontology is overrated.

After that, I urge people to drop the map, and dig in to the real meaning in the web literacy work. I think you should dig in and consider some of the learning pathways (and develop your own). I think you should dive in and

In my opinion the web literacy work is comprehensive, but not complete. What we need now is to run the competencies in the wild, test it in classrooms, develop badges and badge pathways, etc. I want to see what people really think about it.

grokkability

You will be as­tounded by your courage and clar­ity. Even though you will find you can do amaz­ing things for your child, pace your­self, ask for help and un­der­stand the lim­its to your power.

When you learn your child won’t grow up, it’s as­tound­ing how quickly your old life ends. You mourn this old life as much as you grieve over your child’s prog­no­sis

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ut if web literacy, including web programming, was adopted by every school as a fourth basic literacy, kids would not only learn how to code, they would learn about interactivity, collaboration, the melding of the artistic and the scientific, creativity, and precision.

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inline span is the standard inline element. An inline element can wrap some text inside a paragraph <span> like this </span> without disrupting the flow of that paragraph. The a element is the most common inline element, since you use them for links.

* { -webkit-box-sizing: border-box; -moz-box-sizing: border-box; box-sizing: border-box; }

relative behaves the same as static unless you add some extra properties. </div> <div class="relative2"> Setting the top, right, bottom, and left properties of a relatively-positioned element will cause it to be adjusted away from its normal position. Other content will not be adjusted to fit into any gap left by the element.

the nearest positioned ancestor instead of relative to the viewport. If an absolutely-positioned element has no positioned ancestors, it uses the document body, and still moves along with page scrolling.

When designing the on-boarding experience, we have a few goals: We should make a positive user experience where the visitor learns something within minutes of interacting We should have the user take some action which results in signing up for a Webmaker account We should give the user a clear and compelling reason to return.

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pre-defined ontologies

representing literacies, we should probably think more about this.

understand and represent the skills and competencies required to read, write and participate on the Web.

allows users to tag resources they find around the web using competencies from the Web Literacy Map.

Finally from Jess

agency, skills and know-how they need to unlock the full power of the web.

read, write and participate in the digital world.

Three-year vision By 2017, Mozilla will have established itself as the best place to learn the skills and know-how people need to use the web in their lives, careers and organizations. We will have: Educated and empowered users by creating tools and curriculum for learning how to read, write and participate on the web. Gone mainstream. Built leaders, everywhere by growing a global cadre of educators, researchers, coders, etc. who do this work with us. We’ve helped them lead and innovate. Established the community as the classroom by improving and explaining our experiential learning model: learn by doing and innovating with Mozilla.

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will we contribute to Mozilla’s top-line goals? In 2015, We’ll measure success through two key performance indicators

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could connect my students with students in the K-12 system where they (many are future teachers) can practice using digital tools to teach children and mentor children about college along the way.

Why is open better than BlackBoard?

in fact, if anything, it has been easier because I have a significant amount of evidence by which to judge performance (e.g. student-produced videos, blog posts, participation in discussion on VoiceThreads, etc.). This is useful because we know multiple touch points on student work is a better measure of student learning than perhaps, one exam and a few papers.”

For instance, there were some pages with learning activities on them that I made password protected or only editable by people with specific email addresses.

When Bobby Jr. was hospitalized, his father read to him at the bedside. The book for their last month was the classic, Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, "To Kill a Mockingbird." "All kids should read 'To Kill a Mockingbird' in their lifetime, so I read it to him," Bob said. "His eyes would light up and he followed the sound of my voice." Perspective They didn't finish the book - at least not yet. Every couple days or so, Bob and Constanza visit Bobby Jr.'s gravesite, not far from the family home. They bring a lawn chair, a blanket and the book. As of late November, Bob said, they'd shared 22 chapters.

When teens interact with social media, they must regularly contend with collapsed contexts and invisible audiences as a part of everyday life. 4 Their teachers might read what they post online for their friends, and when their friends from school start debating their friends from summer camp, they might be excited that their friend groups are combining—or they might find it discomforting.

Pinterest—It’s mainly female-dominated and is for those who have an artsy/hipster focus. Not too many people talk about it.

Almost all of them work in the tech industry and many of them are tech executives or venture capitalists

Arrested Development

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