Mozilla Clubs Fact Sheet

A Mozilla Club meets regularly in-person to learn how to read, write and participate with the web in an inclusive, engaging way.

Preamble

The Web is where our personal, civic, and economic lives connect. Knowing how to wield the Web is essential to success today.

There are 2.3 billion internet users today, and another billion coming online soon. It is critical that everyone knows how to read, write and participate in the digital world.

Will you join us to teach digital skills and strive for universal web literacy?

Why Mozilla

Mozilla is dedicated to protecting the Web as a global public resource that promotes openness, innovation and opportunity for all. This Web is as important to education as it is to economy, culture and society.

Mozilla, together with partners and collaborators, are striving for universal web literacy with an approach called connected learning.

Connected learning is based on research that people learn best if they can combine their personal passions with rigorous academic scaffolding and to make projects with friends, peers and educators. Open networks make this learning possible.

We unified our efforts in education in the Mozilla Learning Network. We serve our mission by teaching digital skills in local communities through interest-driven learning and making.

Our goal is to help people become critical consumers, contributors and participants on the Web. If people experience the web as critical to their learning, work and social lives they will better understand their role in helping the Web remain open, accessible and a resource for all.

Why Mozilla Clubs

Mozilla Clubs is a unique and sustainable way to teach the Web in local communities. It has these key elements:

  • Connected learning in action. Research shows you learn best when you learn by making projects you care about, with peers who support and encourage you. That’s why our program is hands-on, production-centered and social. Learners gain confidence with the Web by actively shaping it together.
  • Curriculum that’s free & open and educator-tested. We make curriculum available for local community members interested in starting clubs to teach the web. Our curriculum features hands-on ways to teach the Web, free of cost and free to reuse and remix. Each activity includes step-by-step instructions and tips for how to teach it, all underpinned by the Web Literacy Map. What's more, activities can be taught with limited or no connectivity, ensuring the Web can be learned anywhere and by anyone.
  • Best practices and community mentorship. Clubs are key nodes in the Mozilla Learning Network, which enables connections to other people teaching digital literacy. By connecting with others, individual Mozilla club nodes have access to best practices and mentorship around the world. Local clubs are more resilient and effective when they are networked with each other.
  • Regular engagement. Literacy doesn’t happen overnight. Learning takes time and application of both theory and practice. Through regular meetings, both learners and club captains grow and improve. This deepens peer learning within the local community and with each other.

What is a Mozilla Club

A Mozilla Club meets regularly in-person to learn how to read, write and participate with the web in an inclusive and engaging way.

  • A Mozilla Club will:
    • Meet regularly in-person
    • Develop its learners’ digital skills and leadership in an inclusive, participatory way.
    • Be initiated by one or more members of the local community, who serve as the Club Captains.
    • Have at least one Club Captain who organizes the group, ensures the learning is high-quality and participatory, and connects the club to the broader Mozilla Learning Network.
  • A Mozilla Club Captain pledges to:
    • Teach how to read, write and participate on the Web using inclusive and participatory methods.
    • Empower learners through authentic making, reflective learning, and meaningful action with and on the Web.
    • Commit to the mission of universal web literacy and sharing their club’s experience with Mozilla's community networks.
    • See the Mozilla Clubs Rio Case Study

Who is involved in a Mozilla Clubs

Club Members

You want to explore your interests by learning how to read, write and participate on the web and to share your experience with fellow Club Members.

Club Captain

You serve your Club Members in cultivating their web literacy and leadership skills by ensuring the ongoing, participatory learning of your club.

Regional Coordinators

You serve your 5 - 10 Club Captains in realizing their full potential through continued mentorship, clear leadership pathways and storytelling with Mozilla.

Resources for your club and region

General

For Club Captains

For Regional Coordinators

Other Guides

Office Hours

Have questions about Mozilla Clubs? Want to discuss what Mozilla Clubs looks like in your community? Want to share what your Mozilla Club is doing or where you need help? Sign up for Office Hours to learn how you can get involved.

Something missing?

If there is a resource you'd like to request be made, or you've developed something and would like to share it with the community, please email us at teachtheweb [at] mozillafoundation [dot] org.