Lesson 6: Developing Digital Skills

Content

            This topic is all about how the basic skills could be develop. According to the report and the source, it has six (6) new generation fluency which includes collaboration, media, information, creativity, digital ethics and solution fluency. In developing Basic skills, learner should know how to share, collaborate, create and have purpose to develop this literacy. Collaboration can bridge for partnership and can be virtual interaction through discovery learning. Media fluency is for mass communications. Creativity fluency occurs when you are doing/creating something using technology. However, in Digital ethics focuses as a positive or negative impact of this to the student or learner. They emphasized also that you should develop these skills because you might encounter in your student a more skilled in computer.

Experiences

            I remember when I first tried to use computer, I always think that when I just accidentally click one button, maybe the computer will be damaged or crash. As a student now and as a preparation to the future teaching, I really let myself expose to different things. As I go along to my journey, I observe that most of the students of a public school, still, don’t know how to operate even a single computer since the school where they are in are just making these computers as figurines that stopping them to develop the skills being mentioned above. I also observe that most of the learners who are good enough in operating computers are not equipped enough with these fluencies. Some may acquire these all but mostly are not. Some are good enough and really skilled on one of these fluencies but other fluencies are being stagnant. And based on the observations that I have, collaboration, media and solution are mostly abundant to most of the students especially boys, since most of the boys nowadays are enjoying playing online games which enable them to make strategies and making them think easily of some tactics and solution to the problem they face

Reflection

            Based on the Experiences that I have, I realized that being a teacher soon, it should be crucial for us to face this dilemma. But it also makes us challenge on facing it. I think that as a teacher, we could relate to the students ideas and interest, we should not make these technology our opponent to the students’ interest. But still, we should let them realize the importance and advantages of applying technology in appropriate way; we should let them develop their digital fluency. Because I realize that Digital fluency is the most unnoticed fluency that most of the students lack nowadays. I realize that we should use these fluencies for a better future. And as a future mentor of these technologies, we should still be equipped with this fluency so that the student would learn and inspired by us. we should not just tech them with these principles but we must involve them so that, they would learn and realize something.

Application

            We could apply this topic whatever it is because it can be applied easily when teaching. Since, this topic is like teaching good values and attitude the students. It is like teaching them with the scientific attitude but also tech them with the effects of these If properly used and if not. We would be able to let them see the Beauty of it if appropriately applied and the Ugliness of it if otherwise. It can be applied if we, ourselves are good enough with these different fluencies.