Digital+Skills+for+21st+Century+Kids

=Digital Skills for 21st Century Kids =

Fluency vs. Literacy

 * **Technical fluency** - the task drives the use of the technology - learning the technology is incidental of that process
 * **Media fluency** - be able to look critically at the content and be able to understand how the medium is being used to communicate with the users
 * Skills educators need to teach as important as English, Math, History and Science:
 * //Graphical Design//
 * //Color Theory//
 * //Video Editing//
 * //Use of Apparent Motion//
 * **Information fluency** - being able to unconsciously and intuitively interpret information in all forms and formats in order to extract the essential knowledge and perceive its meaning and significance
 * //Ask// good questions
 * //Access// and //Acquire//
 * //Analyze// and //Authenticate//
 * //Apply//
 * //Assess//



What research tells us is that on average after two weeks we recall:
 * less than 10% of the content of what we read, about 20% of what we hear, like from a lecture
 * 20 to 30% of content simultaneously using two or more media, like looking at pictures or watching a movie
 * about 30% of lessons involving demonstration
 * about 50% of content that we hear and see like while watching a demonstration that uses two or more media simultaneously
 * 65-80%% of content that involves practice by doing like participating in a discussion or giving a talk
 * and about 90% that involves the teaching of a concept to others as well as the immediate application of the learning within the context of a real time, real world task or a simulation of that task

Click here to check out Bloom's Digital Taxonomy!

Resource: Jukes, Ian. Closing the Digital Divide. The InfoSavvy Group, May, 2008.