I was having a conversation with someone recently who holds a senior role at an edtech organisation. We both agreed that the equivalent of Mozilla Webmaker these days would not be teaching children HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. Instead, we would be teaching them how to understand and use AI tools to achieve their ends. This is still literacy.In presentations around digital literacies, I've often talked about the historical importance of 'view source' on web pages as helping teach people how the web works. That, of course, doesn't really work any more given the complexity of modern web pages, but the principle is the same: what's the layer beneath the interface?Nowadays, when the layer beneath is AI, what's the equivalent of 'view source'? What comes after web literacy?The Webmaker era was replaced by the Platform eraI won't rehash what I discussed in my recent post Beyond Elegant Consumption (Again) but just to say that, as Karen Smith and I wrote in a Webmaker whitepaper, polished…
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