Lesson 6: Developing Basic Digital Skills

Ganancial, Estela L.  BSEd General Science 4

MW 3:00-5:00 PM

Educational Technology 2

Lesson 6: Developing Basic Digital Skills

Content

            As teachers adjust their teaching to effectively match the new digital world of information and communication technology (ICT), they must be clear on what basic knowledge, skills and values (or literacies) need to develop by digital learners. These basic literacies should not replace the 3Rs (reading, writing, ‘rithmetic) but should be complemented by six essentials skills to equip students for success in the millennial world.

These are the following fluency skills to be developed by students in the 21^st century:

1.      Solution fluency- refers to the capacity and creativity in problem solving.

2.      Information fluency- ability to access and retrieve information  from internet or CD-ROM software; ability to reflect on, assess and rewrite for instructive information package

3.      Collaboration fluency- refers to teamwork with virtual or real partners in the online environment.

4.      Media fluency-   requires analytical mind to evaluate messages in the media as well as creative mind to publish digital messages.

5.      Creative fluency- artistic proficiency adds by way of design, art, and story-telling to package a message.

6.      Digital citizenship-  guided by principles of leadership, global responsibility, environmental awareness, global citizenship, and personal accountability

Experience

           I must say that my Edtech 1 had taught me of those six fluency skills. We were able to develop those  I really experienced a good example of an activity that covers all those fluency skills mentioned and I’m happy because I got good grades from it. I can still remember, we always worked by group and we share a lot of ideas to make our project more appealing and pleasing to our instructor. Right now, Edtech 2 is doing the same, too but in another way like for example, we are required to use blogger.com to post our CERA’s likewise podcast wherein we can take a video on our own to share some of our reflections.

skills through IT-based projects such as video and photo editing and the like. Such exposure to IT-based projects taught us to be more knowledgeable about technology.

Reflection

            To adopt in the certain changes as the technology progresses, it is not a bad idea to be with the flow. I realize that as a science teacher, we must first develop these basic fluency skills so that it will be easy for us to impart our knowledge to the young ones. As of this present, we all know that digital learners are so much familiar with technology so we do also. At least, if we develop these basic skills, we will be able to understand its purposes and limitations. Also, as we apply these skills in our future teaching, we can at least secure to our students that technology is exclusively for learning purposes and not for nonsense matters. Since we want technology to be of good reputation, we must employ good techniques so that our students could really learn from their lessons. These basic digital skills are necessary to be developed by the students because I believe that these can help them a lot especially in the sustainability of their learnings and appreciation.

Application

            For me, the best way is to develop first these skills myself through enhancements by attending IT seminars workshops. When I fully develop these skills, it will be easy for me to use ICT resources for my teaching-learning process. I would always encourage my students simply by hands-on techniques with the involvement of technology for it to be more effective and fun at the same time. For me, hands on learning exemplify a good learning outcome from students because they are the one who explore for their own. Through good facility and guidance, I can assure a good learning outcome from students.