EduCon 2.5

Critical thinking in combination with creative thinking leads to innovation, something that is only possible through usage of and contribution to the ecosystem of human knowledge and the collective distilling of that knowledge. In short, without a critical mass of contribution to the human knowledge network, we will be unable to distill the truth from the irrelevant and unable to solve key problems that plague the human race. All issues of the human experience are directly related to our ability to communicate and share ideas with one another. The World Wide Web has made both of these processes extremely easy. In this conversation, we will do a collective thought experiment in which we create a tree of dependencies to envision and record the consequences of ignoring web literacies. Mozilla, a non-profit organization best known as the makers of the Firefox browser, has committed itself to tackling the problem of web literacies, literacies that involve the ability to contribute knowledge to the global ecosystem. The National Writing Project is faciliating and participating in the academic conversation surrounding the very definition of "literacy". Together, the National Writing Project and Mozilla aim to spread web literacies and create a culture of sharing and collaboration using the Web as the platform.