Characteristics of the Digital Age

Critical Thinking

Effective Communication

Collaboration Fluency

Creativity # # #

Information Fluency

1) Ask questions
2) Access & Acquire information
3) Analyse information
4) Apply knowledge
5) Assess the process
(Global Digital Citizen Foundation, 2016)

1) Establish the collaborators
2)Envision the outcome
3)Engineer for efficiency
4)Execute and manage
5)Examine & reflect
(Global Digital Citizen Foundation, 2016)

Use...
...critical information & belief generating and processing skills.


Practice...
...habits based on intellectual commitment, of using critical thinking skills to guide actions, decisions and behaviors.
(The Critical Thinking Community, 2016)

Critical Thinkers Use:
-Reason
-Logic
-Imagination
-Innovation
-Inferring skills
(ACARA, 2016)


Critical Thinkers Practice:
-Generalising skills
-Appraisal skills
-Speculating skills
(ACARA, 2016)

Critical Thinkers:
-Raise questions
-Test results
-Think openmindedly
-Self reflect
-Self direct
-Self correct
(The Critical Thinking Community, 2016) #

Decipher fact from opinion

Solution Fluency

6D's
1) Definethe problem
2) Discoverthe problem
3) Dreamout solutions
4) Designa solution
5) Deliverthe solution
6) Debrief& review
(Crockett, n.d.)

Media Fluency

Listen

What is the Message?
What is the context?
Is it clear?
Can it be verified?
Who is the audience?
(Global Digital Citizen Foundation, 2016) #

Multi-modal mediums: Linguistic
Visual
Audio
Gestural
Spatial
Technological
Person-to-Person
Remote
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Create

Effective communication considers...
Context
Purpose
Encoding
Decoding
Noise
Feedback
Audience
(Ewing, Lowrie, & Higgs, 2014)

Good Collaborators:
-Share ideas
-Practice open-mindedness
-Consider all participants
-Listen, consider, review , engage