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refers to the skills and competencies needed for reading, writing, and participating on the web. It has been described as "both content and activity" meaning that web users should not just learn about the web but also about how to make their own website.
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In the late 1990s, literacy researchers began to explore the differences between printed text and network-enabled devices with screens. This research was largely focused on two areas: the credibility of information that can be found on the
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The Mozilla community finalized version 1.5 of the Web Literacy Map at the end of March 2015. This involves small changes to the competencies layer and a comprehensive review of the skills they contain.
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SCONUL Advisory Committee on Information Literacy (1999) Information skills in higher education: a SCONUL position paper. Prepared by the Information Skills Task Force, on behalf of SCONUL.
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from formal and informal education, as well as industry. Work on what was originally entitled a Web Literacy 'Standard' began in early 2013. Version 1.0 was launched at the
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Detweiler, M. C., Hess, S. M., & Peck, A. C. (1996, October). Acquiring User-Centered Design Skills by Designing and Evaluating World Wide Web Pages. In
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later that year. Going forward, 'standard' was seen to be problematic and against the ethos of what the Mozilla community was trying to achieve.
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position paper in 1999. This paper became the '7 Pillars of Information Literacy', which was last updated in 2011.
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makes to reading and writing. These skills were included in definitions of information literacy and included in a
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Help us redefine the skills underpinning three Web Literacy Map competencies!
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Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society Annual Meeting
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that aims to promote openness, innovation, and participation on the
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The Web Literacy Standard is dead (long live the Web Literacy Map!)
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was released in early 2014 and underpins the Mozilla Foundation's
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Why the Web Literacy Map will remain at v1.1 until MozFest
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Page to screen: Taking literacy into the electronic era.
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Ability to produce, consume or evaluate web content.
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