Re: Teaching the fourth “r:” webmaking as a vital 21st century skill

It's a shame I missed this (I was on vacation). I completely agree with the salient point here. You can teach technology syntax and graphic design skills until you are blue in the face, but people still won't get it unless they really start to get how to solve a problem with CSS or JavaScript. But how to teach that in any kind of sane way? From my experience, to get into this mindset it takes a good few years of experience, messing around with the technologies, and looking at what others have already done.

Thoughts?

Chris Mills
Open standards evangelist and dev.opera.com editor, Opera Software
Co-chair, web education community group, W3C

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On 14 Feb 2012, at 23:09, Janet Swisher wrote:

> Members of this group may be interested in this online event:
> http://lanyrd.com/2012/CathyDavidson/
> 
> Unfortunately, it's rather late in the evening for those in Europe.
> 
> (If you didn't follow the link, the "fourth 'r'" is algoRithms.)
> 
> This brings up an important point: it's not enough to teach Web technologies; we need to teach how to think about working with those technologies. 
> 
> -- 
> Janet Swisher
> Mozilla Developer Network
> Technical Writer/Community Steward