Lesson 6. Developing Basic Digital Skills

The aim of education is to develop various skills a learner must have. These skills are essential in producing an equip and competitive learners. In the digital generation, teachers must help students to develop these skills for them to be able to use it in their future jobs. As a challenge, teachers must also adjust to the changing educational interest of the students. The use of teachnologies and other educational media must be thoroughly utilize so that the skills that the student has to develop could be attain. These skills include solution fluency, information fluency, collaboration fluency, media fluency, creativity fluency and digital ethics.

 

Solution fluency refers to the ability of the students to solve problems. This could be a problem regarding class discussion or problems in real life situation. Solution fluency involves critical thinking ability as well as the systematic approach in solving a problem. Information fluency refers to the ability of the students to gather information that can be relevant to a certain topic. A student who develop this skill has an ability to access information not only in internet but also other sources like CD-ROM software. This information does not only limit to text but also images and videos. Collaboration fluency refers to teamwork interaction among learners using social sites and online games. Through educational technology, school to school partnership is now possible for more fun and active learning process. Media fluency refers to the ability to use digital sources such as radio, television, magazine, etc. as channels of communication. Through these media, one will be able to publish or retrieve messages and information. Blogs is an example to media used for educational purposes. Creative fluency refers to the ability to use different font, color, pattern and lay-out to produce an artistic work of art. Templates for PowerPoint presentations as well as creative text fonts are available and accessible in internet. All of those fluency discussed above has to do with the use of educational technologies. Therefore, digital ethnics must also be practice. This kind of fluency refers to the principles and ethics that must be followed in using different technologies especially the ones that has to do with communication access in social sites.

 As a learner exposed in digital age generation, I can say that I have attain those skills mentioned. My teachers have mold me to be a problem solver, able to access information on my own and can use different media as a channel to communication. My teachers have let me work collaboratively with other learners and I have develop my social skills. Through projects, I have develop my creative skills. Right manners and conduct are being taught in school, hence, I can say that I am sensitive and tactful digital citizen.

I have reflected that in all the skills that a learner must develop, never will the ethic is out of the line. Attaining those different skills but lack manner and conduct is useless. For this reason, teachers must make sure that a learner will be holistically develop. They must not only attain those important skills, but nothing is more important than having good manners and being a sensitive person.