Lesson 6 - Developing Basic Digital Skills

Teachers in the modern times are rapidly improving particularly on their way of teaching to match the new digital world of information and communication technology (ICT). In developing a digital learner, it must be clear to them on what basic knowledge, skills and values which need to be developed. These basic literacy will not replace the 3 R’s (reading, writing, arithmetic) instead they will complemented by six essential skills namely: Solution fluency that focuses on to learners capacity and creativity in problem solving, Information fluency that involves the ability to access information, retrieve and reflect on the information, Collaboration fluency that talks about teamwork, Media fluency in communication, Creativity fluency in artistic proficiency and Digital ethics that states about the different principles of leadership, global responsibility and citizenship, environmental awareness and personal accountability.