{"id":7279,"date":"2014-03-21T10:58:31","date_gmt":"2014-03-21T17:58:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/?p=7279"},"modified":"2014-05-12T15:06:18","modified_gmt":"2014-05-12T22:06:18","slug":"congratulations-to-mozillas-thimble-code-editor-for-being-recognized-as-gamechanger-for-education","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/blogarchive\/blog\/2014\/03\/21\/congratulations-to-mozillas-thimble-code-editor-for-being-recognized-as-gamechanger-for-education\/","title":{"rendered":"Congratulations to Mozilla&#8217;s Thimble Code Editor For Being Recognized as a &#8220;GameChanger&#8221; for Education!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/files\/2014\/03\/IMAG1016.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-large wp-image-7281\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/files\/2014\/03\/IMAG1016-600x339.jpg\" alt=\"Thimble's Common Sense Media Award \" width=\"600\" height=\"339\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/blogarchive\/files\/2014\/03\/IMAG1016-600x339.jpg 600w, https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/blogarchive\/files\/2014\/03\/IMAG1016-300x170.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/blogarchive\/files\/2014\/03\/IMAG1016-768x434.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/blogarchive\/files\/2014\/03\/IMAG1016-1000x565.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Teaching has always been an important piece of what Mozilla does &#8212; right down to the first few thousand people who built Firefox, and then installed it on their friends&#8217; and families&#8217; computers, explaining why it was different.<\/p>\n<p>Several years ago, we became more intentional about integrating education into what we do. We <a href=\"http:\/\/commonspace.wordpress.com\/2009\/10\/25\/mozedu-lotsgoingon\/\">realized<\/a> that <a href=\"[http:\/\/commonspace.wordpress.com\/mozilla-learning-proposa\/\">teaching<\/a> is not just important, but essential to Mozilla&#8217;s mission; to keep the web open, accessible and ours, we need an informed user base who understands its basic building blocks, and recognizes that the web is something any of us can help build and shape. And so, <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/blog\/2012\/05\/22\/introducing-mozilla-webmaker\/\"> nearly two years ago<\/a>, Mozilla&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.webmaker.org\">Webmaker<\/a> was born&#8212; our project to build the right tools and community to teach web literacy on a global scale.<\/p>\n<p>Today, we&#8217;re thrilled to share that <a href=\"https:\/\/webmaker.org\/en-US\/tools\">Thimble<\/a>, Webmaker&#8217;s code editor for beginners, has been recognized by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.commonsensemedia.org\/\">Common Sense Media<\/a> as one of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.commonsensemedia.org\/lists\/2014-on-for-learning-award-winners\">best educational tools online<\/a>, and a GameChanger for education, with a 2014 ON for Learning Award. The <a>&#8220;ON&#8221; award<\/a> celebrates the year\u2019s best in digital media\u00a0 products designed to educate and engage young people.<\/p>\n<p>Thimble also received a <a>5-star rating from Common Sense Media<\/a> for its educational value \u2014 the highest\u00a0 possible rating available from the organization. Common Sense Media ratings are the most comprehensive tool that parents and teachers rely on for\u00a0 understanding the true educational value of digital media resources.<\/p>\n<p>Here are a few of the reasons Thimble was honored with the award:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><b>Engagement<\/b> \u2013 Thimble lets kids experience the delight of\u00a0 learning to write their own webpages with side-by-side windows that\u00a0 instantly show the effects of their coding tweaks.<\/li>\n<li><b>Learning Approach<\/b> \u2013 Authentic coding practice comes\u00a0 alive through fun, community-generated projects. Whether they learn\u00a0 through guided remixing or start a project from scratch, Thimble is a great tool for kids to find\u00a0the right entry point into web design.<\/li>\n<li><b>Support<\/b> \u2013 Thimble&#8217;s immediate feedback, baked-in help and a supportive community all help kids persevere and publish their webpages.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>It\u2019s Webmaker\u2019s goal to help people understand the mechanics, culture and citizenship of the web in a way that enables creativity and encourages empowerment. Our easy-to-use open <a>tools<\/a> such as <a>Thimble, X-Ray Goggles and Popcorn Maker<\/a> help\u00a0 educators, technologists, makers and anyone curious about the web become the creators, not just consumers, of the web.<\/p>\n<p>Webmaker also works with <a href=\"http:\/\/hivenyc.org\/2014\/03\/07\/taking-hive-global\/\">a global community of educators<\/a>, finding the best, open and distributed ways of teaching web literacy on a global scale through volunteer-led events, free online trainings and more.<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019re honored to receive this award from Common Sense Media, but like everything at Mozilla,\u00a0 Thimble was built by a global Webmaker community of contributors. So if you provided feedback on an open community call; filed or closed bugs; or created or remixed content for others to use and learn and share\u2026 we\u2019re celebrating this award with you!<\/p>\n<p><b>How to get involved:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Learn more<\/strong> about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.webmaker.org\">Mozilla&#8217;s Webmaker<\/a> and how to join the <a href=\"https:\/\/webmaker.org\/en-US\/teach\">Webmaker community<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Take part in a conversation<\/strong> with Chris Lawrence, Senior Director of the Webmaker Community Team, on Thursday, April 10th at 7pm ET during an <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.nwp.org\/educatorinnovator\/webinars\/\">Educator Innovator webinar<\/a>\u00a0 with National Writing Project. He\u2019ll be joined by educators who are\u00a0 using Thimble to help teach web literacy skills to their learners, and by Common Sense Media to share more background about the award.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Learn<\/strong> <strong>more<\/strong> about Common Sense Media\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.commonsense.org\/learning-ratings\"><strong>learning ratings<\/strong><\/a><strong>.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Read<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.webmaker.org\">Webmaker&#8217;s<\/a> (<a>Tweeted) acceptance speech<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Teaching has always been an important piece of what Mozilla does &#8212; right down to the first few thousand people who built Firefox, and then installed it on their friends&#8217; &hellip; <a class=\"go\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/blogarchive\/blog\/2014\/03\/21\/congratulations-to-mozillas-thimble-code-editor-for-being-recognized-as-gamechanger-for-education\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":596,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65,15894,67,66,757,27993],"tags":[27995,27994,410,23089,27996,23085],"coauthors":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Congratulations to Mozilla&#039;s Thimble Code Editor For Being Recognized as a &quot;GameChanger&quot; 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