Lesson 6 : Developing Basic Digital Skills

As Teacher adjust their teaching to effectively match the new digital world of information and communication technology (ICT), they must clear on what basic knowledge, skills and values (or literacies)  need to be developed by digital learners. These basic literacies will not replace the 3 Rs (reading, writing and rithmetic) but they will be complemented by six essential skills to equip students for success in the millennial world. Rather than call them literacy skills, these are better referred to as fluency skills conveying the ease and facility in acquiring and using them. These are

1. Solution Fluency  

            This refers to the capacity and creativity in problem solving. It requires whole brain 

2. Information Fluency

            This involves 3 subsets of skills, namely

• an ability to access information
• an ability to retrieve information
• an ability to reflect on

3. Collaboration Fluency

                   This refers to teamwork with virtual or real partners in the online environment

4. Media Fluency

                This refers to the channels of mass communication (radio, television, magazine, advertising, graphic arts) or digital sources.

5. Creativity Fluency

                An artistic proficiency adds meaning by way of design, art, and storytelling to package a message.

       Elements of Creative Fluency

• font
• color
• patterns
• layout

6. Digital Ethics

             The digital citizen is guided by the principles of leadership, goal responsibility, environmental awareness, global citizenship, and personal accountability.

4D's – structures problem solving

• define the problem
• design the solution
• do the work
• debrief on the outcome