Lesson 6: Developing Basic Digital Skills

Florrie Jane M. Suralta                                                                                                         BSEd- GS4

Educational Technology 2                                                                                                   MW 3-5 pm

Lesson 6: Developing Basic Digital Skills

CONTENT- Teachers need to know what are the basic knowledge, skills and values that needs to be developed by technology learners. These literacy or fluency skills complements the 3Rs and not replacing it. These are the six fluency skills. First is the solution fluency in which students would be able to define the problem, design the the solution, do the work and report the result. Second is the information fluency which helps students access information through internet and other resources. Also to retrieve the gathered information and to reflect and rewrite the information. Third is the collaboration fluency where teamwork with other students in other places is possible through virtual community. Students learn to cooperate well with others because of virtual communication or interaction, thus bridging the distance between them. Fourth is media fluency. This will develop the analytic skills and creativity of students because this fluency involves the publication of works of students in social media. Fifth is the creativity fluency. When students do their written projects, they can design it including the font, color, lay out and other elements, thus developing their creativity. Lastly, the digital ethics in which digital learners are guided by principles in how to use technology that would not cause harm to other people. These fluency will lead to the development of student’s higher cognitive skills.

EXPERIENCE- Now in tertiary level, we are developing those basic digital skills. In making power point presentation for our reports in different subject area, we developed creativity fluency. We also made written reports or summary of the lessons discussed and post it in social media such as in blog spot and developing the media fluency. When we had assignments we research it in internet and get the concept of it thus, developing the information fluency.

REFLECTION- As future teachers, it is important that we knew already the basic digital skills that needs to be developed by our students someday. The new learners for the next generation are more interested when technology is applied. So it is crucial that in our teaching strategies, it should be aided with technology for our students not only to stay focused but also for them to develop fluency skills. Students learn more when they are included in the activity so it is important that we should develop the active teaching - learning process through being student- centered.

APPLICATION- As future teachers, we must:

Ø  Apply inquiry- based approach. We can give students with activities or problems that they are going to solve.

Ø  Aim that our students will develop those fluency skills.

Ø  Let them make reflection papers about the subject matter and post it in the social media.

Ø  Provide them project- based multimedia at the end of the school year.

Give them research activities about some current issues and produce reaction paper or any research articles related to the subject matter.