Lesson 6

DEVELOPING BASIC DIGITAL SKILLS

Knowledge and skills that digital learners should develop must be clear and these literacies will be complemented by six essentials skills for them to be successful in the millennial world.

•  Solution fluency - requires whole brain thinking to create a solution to a problem

• Information Fluency - where learners access to information, retrieved information and reflect on it.

  

• Collaboration fluency - emphasizes on teamwork with virtual or real partners in the online environment.

Media fluency- refers to the channels of mass communication or digital resources where learners used their analytic minds to evaluate the message from the channels. 

• Creativity Fluency - where design and arts, patterns and layouts are given attention.

• Digital Ethics - talks about the principles of leadership. global responsibility, environmental awareness, global citizenship, and personal accountability.

  Entering the new world of information and communication technology opens the way for complex and higher cognitive skills.

In developing higher thinking skills, there should be also an instructional shift from lecture-to-task to digital tasks-to-learning. The structured problem solving process known as 4D’s exemplifies the instructional shift in digital learning these are:

•   Define problem
•   Design solution
•  Do the work 
•  Debrief on the outcome.

The new era of creativity in the digital world has led to new framework of skills; Creating- new product/point of view, Evaluating- justify stand or position, Analyzing- distinguish different parts, Applying- use information in a new way, Understanding- explain ideas and Remembering- recall information.