Interoperable: it presents opportunity to play and innovate.Knowable: it’s transparent – we can see it and understand it.Whether through the thousands of volunteers who write code for Firefox or the growing community that is designing courses for teaching the web, Mozilla strives for an Internet that is: Mozilla helps people develop web literacy: we help them build, not just consume, the technology, media and information that makes up the web. This act of human collaboration across an open platform we believe to be essential to individual growth and our collective future. We collaborate on a global basis to ensure everyone can be informed contributors and creators of the web. That Do-It-Yourself potential for connected, participatory, improvisational learning requires new skills, what many are calling new “literacies”.” – Davidson, 2012įounded in 1998, Mozilla is a global community of technologists, teachers and makers working together to keep the Internet 1 open, accessible and editable. We can customize and remix, alone or in collaboration with others, located anywhere on the Web. Now, anyone with access to the World Wide Web can go far beyond the passive consumer model to contribute content on the Web. We need to reform our learning institutions, concepts, and modes of assessment for our age. Click the word “Tutorial” in the grey bar above the preview pane to see step-by-step instructions for how to remix the project.“ur world changed in April 1993 when the Mosaic 1.0 browser was released to the general public. In each of the starter makes, the right pane can be toggled to view a Tutorial for the project. The right pane shows a preview of what the page will look like on a web browser or mobile device.The middle pane shows the code for whichever file is currently selected.If you click on different files, it changes what appears in the other two panes. For instance, you might see one file for HTML, one for CSS and another for JavaScript. The left pane shows the files included in the project.Hit the Remix button on a starter project. How can I use Thimble to teach myself to code?Īn easy way to get started is to remix one of the starter projects found on the Thimble homepage.

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