Developing basic digital skills and

Cooperative learning with

computers

RUVILYN M.
BACOLCOL
MAED 1
OPENING PRAYER
GAMES
Developing Basic Digital Skills
In order for teachers to better
adapt of the digital world, it
must be made to know to them
the basic skills to develop.
 1. Information Literacy

Information literacy teaches our children the ability to

understand facts, figures, statistics and data. When searching

3 Literacy Skills online children will be inundated with false figures and made up
numbers on all sorts of topics. Therefore, it's necessary to teach
kids how to identify when figures might not be truthful or seem
a little off. Teaching how to determine between fiction and truth
is vital for success in a world so inundated with information.
 Media Literacy Technology Literacy

The world, especially the online world, is saturated with
false advertising and fake news. Media outlets are guilty of
twisting the truth or simply fabricating stories to sell us
daily and fill the 24 hr news cycle. With the rapid rate that
news and stories are produced and consumed, we must teach
our children that unfortunately, not everything we read
online or in the newspapers is always true. Media literacy is
the practice of identifying publishing methods, outlets, and
sources while distinguishing between the ones that are
credible and the ones that are not.
Technology Literacy refers to the devices that
provide us with our information or the platforms
on which we consume them. Without the
advancement in technology, our information age
would not be possible. Teaching our children how
to correctly use technology while understanding
the downfalls and loopholes, will make them much
more in tune with the online world.
 Solution Fluency
Six essential skills in Information Fluency
equipping the students to Collaboration Fluency
become successful
Media Fluency
Creativity Fluency
Digital Ethics
1. Solution Fluency
This refers to the capacity of
students to devise creative solution
to problems, apply and evaluate the
effectiveness of the solution.
 It involves 3 subset skills:
(a) ability to access information not only in the
internet but on other resources too;
2. Information Fluency
(b) ability to retrieved information;
(c) ability to evaluate and reflect on the validity
and accuracy of information and be able to
rewrite the information in own words.
 This refers to the teamwork be it virtual or
3. Collaboration Fluency
actual, of the learners. There is partnership
among learners in learning.
 This refers to the ability to evaluate information
from chosen media and the ability to creatively
4. Media Fluency make one that can also be published.

Media refers to channels of mass communication:

Radio
TV
Magazines
Advertising
 This refers to the ability to creatively create
stuffs.
5. Creativity Fluency
It is the process by which artistic proficiency
adds meaning through design, art, and
storytelling.
 As a digital citizen is guided by principles of
leadership, global responsibility,
6. Digital Ethics
environmental awareness, global citizenship
and personal accountability
Higher thinking skills are important
to a digital learner. Such thinking
helps him/her process information,
create ideas, and solve real-world
problems. To attain HTS, Blooms
Taxonomy can be a guide, it has the
following framework:
 Cooperative learning with computer

The cooperative learning with the computer is a learning that improve

the personal and social development of students on how they were going
to cooperate with the use of computer like assigning students to mixed-
ability teams, establishing positive interdependence, teaching
cooperative social skills, insuring individual accountability and helping
groups process information. It enhance the knowledge of students to
share and adapt individuals ideas.
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Elements are needed to be
truly cooperative learning
 Advantages of
Cooperative learning
Cooperative learning
and the Computer