CHAPTER

2
Digital Skills
CHAPTER 2
Digital Skills
 Learning
Objectives
01
To understand the six basic fluency for digital citizen
 The Six Basic Fluency
Solution
Fluency
Information
Fluency
Creativity
Fluency
Media
Fluency
C E R T I F I C AT E
Collaboration
Fluency
Digital
Ethics
Solution Fluency
The 5 D’s

v Define the problem, because you need to know exactly what you’re

doing before you start.

v Discover a solution, because planning prevents wasted effort.

v Design the process in an accurate and detailed action plan.

v Deliver by putting the plan into action by both producing and

publishing the solution.

v Debrief and foster ownership by evaluating the problem solving

process.
 Information Fluency
The 5 A’s
v Ask good questions, in order to get good answers.

v Access and acquire the raw material from the appropriate digital

information sources, which today are mostly graphical and audio-visual in nature.

v Analyze and authenticate and arrange these materials, and distinguish

between good and bad, fact and opinion. Understand bias and determine what is

incomplete to turn the raw data into usable knowledge.

v Apply the knowledge within a real world problem or simulation using a VIP

action (vision into practice).

v Assess both the product and the process, which is both a teacher and a student

practice.
 Collaboration Fluency

Collaboration fluency
More and more,
working, playing, and is the ability to
learning in today’s
successfully work and
digital world involves
working with others. interact with virtual
and real partners.
 Collaboration Fluency
The 5 E’s
v Establish the collective, and determine the best role for each team member by

pinpointing each team member’s personal strengths and expertise, establishing

norms, and the signing of a group contract that indicates both a collective

working agreement and an acceptance of the individual responsibilities and

accountability of each team member.

v Envision the outcome, examining the issue, challenge, and goal as a group.

v Engineer a workable plan to achieve the goal.

v Execute by putting the plan into action and managing the process.

v Examine the process and the end result for areas of constructive improvement.
Media Fluency
There are two components of Media Fluency.

1 It involves the ability to look analytically at any

communication to interpret the real message,
and evaluate the efficacy of the chosen medium.

2 It’s about creating original

communications that align the message
with its intended audience using the most
appropriate and effective medium.
 Artistic proficiency adds meaning through design, art, and storytelling.
We are all creative people. This means that creativity can be taught
and learned like any other skill. It’s a whole brain process that involves
Creative Fluency both hemispheres working together.

The 5 I’s
Identify Inspire
The desired outcome Your creativity with rich
and criteria. sensory information.
Interpolate
and connect the dots by searching for patterns within
the inspiration that align with your desired outcome
and criteria from Identify.
Imagine Inspect
The synthesis of Inspire The idea against the original
and Interpolate, uniting criteria and for feasibility.
in the birth of an idea.
Digital Ethics
The study of how to manage oneself ethically,
professionally and in a clinically sound
manner via online and digital mediums.
 Higher Thinking Skills

Entering new world of information and communication

technology opens the way for complex and higher
cognitive skills.
Higher Thinking Skills
Reference
Abad, Jade. (2020). Basic Digital Skills