LESSON 6: DEVELOPING BASIC DIGITAL SKILLS

Content:

            Developing Basic Digital Skills means that the 3R’s (Reading, wRiting, and aRithmetic) known as the Basic Skills are being complemented with the 6 fluency skills: solution, collaboration, media, creativity, and digital ethics. These skills will be used by the learners to execute the learning they acquire from school. Specifically, solution fluency is the capacity and creativity of the learners to solve problems. Information fluency involves ability of students to access information, retrieve information, and of course reflect, assess, and rewrite the information they get. Collaboration fluency is the teamwork of real partners in the online environment. Media fluency is on the channel that students will use based on their analytical mind and creative ability. Creativity fluency is their ability to analyze and synthesize ideas. And lastly, digital ethics is about the “netiquette” of the learners, a term used in the digital world for the values needed from the users. The combination of these skills will make the students succeed in this new generation. And all of these will lead to the using of higher thinking skills of the students which is a must in this generation.

Experience:

            These fluencies are really a matter in our subjects right now especially that most of the activities and assignments are based on digital resources. I believe that we are already applying these higher plane of thinking skills especially the ability to access info, retrieve and reflect on these information. Also, these things are very applicable in this subject, “Educational Technology” because the title itself suggests that these are all about digital technology. Also, I have used these fluency skills to show my ability in the real life scenarios especially that, fluency is a wholesome skill.

Reflection:

I am very privilege to know these fluency skills that result to higher thinking. It is a necessity to be aware of these things which are to be imparted with my future learners. I would like also to emphasize the need of the higher thinking skills framework where it should start in the remembering and end in creating. I better understood that learning is really a process. The fluency skills and higher thinking are not acquired overnight. It needs to be worked out to achieve quality learning. It would also mean that, I should teach my students in a step by step process so they can learn the things without compromising any skill.

Application:

            The fluency skills as well as the higher thinking framework can be a way to a better learning for this new era of technology. Learning is not just a mere knowledge of the computer and all other technologies but it is the holistic skill that should be taught to students. As future educator, I must put in mind these fluency skills for my learners to be equipped with the basic digital skills in their generation.