Fluencies



The purpose of this section of the presentation is to ...

1. Provide a brief overview of the five fluencies 2. Take a closer look at a popular social media tool and it's use within the classroom 3. Offer some practical suggestions and resources to help teach digital citizenship in the classroom 4. Get hands on with some digital citizenship activities

One of the most helpful books I've read this year is, "Understanding the Digital Citizen" by Ian Dukes, Ted McCain and Lee Crockett



 In Chapter 7, entitled "A Shift to Whole-Mind Instruction," the authors explain the difference between literacies and fluencies ...

" We prefer to use the term //fluency// rather than l//iteracy// when describing these skills because it conveys a greater ease with which they can be used. You may be literate in a second language, but you still have to make a conscious effort to think about what you are hearing or reading to decode its meaning. However, when you are fluent in a second language, you have attained such a comfort level with it that its use is unconscious and automatic ... the same thing happens after you have been driving a car for a number of years. You become so comfortable with the skill that your mind is freed to think about other things. All of these examples describe a level of proficiency that transcends mere literacy and reaches the level of fluency"



__New Skills __

• Solution Fluency • Information Fluency • Collaboration Fluency • Creativity Fluency • Media Fluency

__Media Fluency__

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 140%;">There are two components of Media Fluency. Firstly, the ability to look analytically at any communication media to interpret the real message, how the chosen media is being used to shape media to interpret the real message, how the chosen media is being used to shape thinking, and evaluate the efficacy of the message. Secondly, to create and publish original digital products, matching the media to the intended message by determining the most appropriate and effective media for that message.

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 140%;">//We live in a multimedia world, and in this interactive world, our children must be able to create and publish original digital products that they can use to communicate with just as effectively as they can with text// (italics mine)

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 140%;">The idea is to challenge learners to create digital products that reflects their understanding of the content, develops technical skills and provides them with empowering principles of graphic design. (Understanding the Digital Citizen pg 66)

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 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 140%;">[|The Fluency Project] **

__<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 140%;">The Digital Citizen __


 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 140%;">[|The Class Without Walls Digital Kids] **

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<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: 140%;">[|Create your own digizen]