Core Elements

Digital Citizenship

The Five Fluencies of

Digital Citizenship
Below are the Five Fluencies of Digital Citizenship, and how it is aimed at the youth.

Solution Fluency

Information
Fluency

Collaboration
Fluency

Creativity Fluency

Media Fluency

Information fluency

Acording to (Churches, Jukes & Crocket) Information is about interpreting

information unconsciously and intuitively so that we are able to extract knowledge
and interpret its meaning and significance.
From this we can deduce that all the knowledge and education that we acquire from school and all learning instates should
end up at that. Whatever that we have learned we also need to apply those in the practical world. It is very important to apply
our skills and knowledge that we have in order to build a better place for everyone.

Solution Fluency

Solution fluency is about solving problems presented to us through an intuitive

Process. It requires the ability to interpret information and extract knowledge so
that we are able to find a solution to the problems
This would mean whatever that we learn , not only should help us create and new stuff , but we also have to
apply what we learn through our schooling and be able to resolve problems. We need to be able to resolve
problems as we faced with daily challenges.

Media Fluency

Media fluency is people having access to different platforms of communications such as TV, radio, Print
and now one of the most used platform is the internet.

The flow of media fluency is as follows

Medium

The
message

Verification

Form

Flow

Alignment

Collaboration fluency

With everything that we know and have learnt, it is very important that we work and learn to work with others in
order to get maximum productivity With the todays . We living in a digital age which makes it easier to have a
collaborative relationships.

There are 5 Es of the Collaborative fluency which are:

Establish
Envision
Engineer
Execute
Examine

Creativity fluency

This fluency shows how artistic proficiency add meaning, creativity is something that can be learnt through the
practice of our brain. With creativity innovation is born, and new products are developed and improve situations.

Below are the Is to Creativity fluency

Identify
Inspire
Interpolate
Imagine
Inspect