In
the traditional way of learning, the 3Rs are the given emphasis in the
instruction. But do you think it is still applicable in today’s generation?
Guess not. On this blog post we will know deeper about the basic digital skills
that are looked-for in the new digital world of information and communication
technology (ICT).
On my previous blog we give
prominence on the differences and comparison between the old and new
generation. But on this post, we will tackle on the new generation only for
this is all about their fluency skills.
Going back to the 3Rs, which are
reading, writing and arithmetic, these three are the foundation in the
traditional system of instruction but in the new system where literacies need
to be developed by the digital learners. These literacies were the following: basic
knowledge in ICT, values in ICT, and skills in ICT. These basic literacies will
not replace the 3Rs but they will be complemented with six essential skills to
equip students for success in the millennial world. These literacy skills are
better called as fluency skills conveying the ease and facility in acquiring
and using them. These are the following fluency skills:
1.
Solution
fluency
- Refers to the capacity and creativity in problem solving
- Requires whole brain thinking executed when students define a problem, design the appropriate solution, apply the solution, and assess the process and result.
2.
Information
fluency
- Involves 3 subsets of skills: an ability to access information, an ability to retrieve information, and the ability to reflect on, assess and rewrite for instructive information packages.
3.
Collaboration
fluency
- Refers to teamwork with virtual or real partners in the online environment.
4.
Media
fluency
- Media refers to channels of mass communication or digital sources.
5.
Creativity
fluency
- Also called artistic proficiency. It adds meaning by the way of design, art, and story-telling to package a message.
6.
Digital
ethics
- Guided by 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. Bloom’s Taxonomy of Thinking Skills can serve as a general
framework of skills, a new era of creativity in the digital world has led to
introducing a kind of framework that requires information processing, idea
creation and real-world problem-solving skills.
The above taxonomy is patterned
after new scientific knowledge on how the human brain works. By developing
higher thinking skills, the schools today can inculcate the digital fluencies,
while overcoming limitations inherent in digital technology, resulting in
superficial and mediocre learning skills of new learners.
This serves as a guide for teachers
on how the learning process of their learners took place or how it happens. As
a future teacher, it is very important that we are knowledgeable of the skills
that our learners need to achieve. It is as if the same with our objectives in
the instruction. Also, because we are more onto the digital era, teachers as
well as the students need to enhance their digital skills thus saying that we
should add to the three basic R skills. We will not eradicate the three basic Rs
but rather add improvement in the betterment of our skills.
We can apply this one whenever we
will use audio-visual materials/resources as the aid for our instruction. For
example, we choose PPT presentation in discussing our designated lesson of the
day. But before we come up with that presentation, we should be able to make a
good PPT slides in order for us to deliver the lesson well and attractive to
student. Another thing is that we should be aware of the copyrights when we
will research in the net. Ethics it is.
See? In order for us to
create digital instructional materials we should first improve our basic
digital fluency skills.
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