{"id":11122,"date":"2014-03-11T15:21:34","date_gmt":"2014-03-11T19:21:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/webmakerblog.wpengine.com\/?p=11122"},"modified":"2019-02-26T12:42:10","modified_gmt":"2019-02-26T20:42:10","slug":"web-literacy-skills-defined-navigating-the-web","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/foundation-archive\/mozilla-learning\/web-literacy-skills-defined-navigating-the-web\/","title":{"rendered":"Web Literacy Skills Defined: Navigating the Web"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Did you know that most popular web browsers are free, and easy to install yourself? And that while a good browser can enhance your online experience, a bad web browser can limit your interaction with the web?<br \/>\n<strong>Learning how to <em>navigate<\/em> the web is a core skill for building web literacy.<\/strong> This includes everything from understanding browser basics, using hyperlinks and reading and manipulating URLs, to using available add-ons and extensions for better web functionality.<br \/>\nWhen teaching the web, we sometimes take these skills for granted, but they&#8217;re important and often a good place to start.<br \/>\nWe compiled the following resource as a primer on web navigation, and to help learners understand a little bit about the history of web browers\u2013what they are, why they matter, how to download them for free and more.<br \/>\n<div id=\"attachment_11123\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mozilla.makes.org\/thimble\/firefox-is-free-learn-about-your-web-browser\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11123\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-11123 \" alt=\"Screen Shot 2014-03-11 at 9.44.35 AM\" src=\"http:\/\/webmakerblog.wpengine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Screen-Shot-2014-03-11-at-9.44.35-AM-600x350.png\" width=\"600\" height=\"350\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-11123\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Click the image to link to the page<\/p><\/div><br \/>\nPlease share, and create or curate additional resources to help us teach the mechanics, culture and citizenship of the web.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Did you know that most popular web browsers are free, and easy to install yourself? And that while a good browser can enhance your online experience, a bad web browser can limit your interaction with the web? Learning how to &hellip; <a class=\"go\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/foundation-archive\/mozilla-learning\/web-literacy-skills-defined-navigating-the-web\/\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":144,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[378228],"tags":[359237,30,359471,27996],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/foundation-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11122"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/foundation-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/foundation-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/foundation-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/144"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/foundation-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11122"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/foundation-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11122\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/foundation-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/foundation-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/foundation-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}