2. What is Media
Fluency?
Being consumers and produces of fluency
(Crockett, Jukes, & Churches, 2011)
Listen: Paying attention to the message and
the medium (Crockett, Jukes, & Churches,
2011)
Leverage: Create and produce an effective
message using an appropriate medium.
(Crockett, Jukes, & Churches, 2011)
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3. Keys to teaching Media Fluency
Challenge students to get meaning from
media (Crockett, Jukes, & Churches, 2011)
Challenge students to ask why ask why a
particular media was used to convey a
message (Crockett, Jukes, & Churches,
2011)
Require students to show mastery of
content through media production
(Crockett, Jukes, & Churches, 2011)
Have students think critically and justify
the medium they chose. (Crockett, Jukes, &
Churches, 2011)
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4. Implementation Ideas
Student created videos for assessments (ISTE, 2015)
Consuming, Evaluating, and Critiquing media from a list created by the
teacher.
Student created digital presentations
Case Study: “…students were engaged in both the technology and the
task” (
5. What is Collaboration
Fluency?
“The death of distance” (Crockett, Jukes, &
Churches, 2011)
The ability to work together as a team in
physical and online situations. (Crockett,
Jukes, & Churches, 2011)
The internet gives students the opportunity
to work with other students from all over the
world. (Crockett, Jukes, & Churches, 2011)
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6. Keys to teaching
Collaboration Fluency
Groups have clear goals, individual
roles, norms (Crockett, Jukes, &
Churches, 2011).
The objective must require students to
work together interdependently
(Crockett, Jukes, & Churches, 2011).
All students have a voice (Crockett,
Jukes, & Churches, 2011)
Encourage use of individual student
strengths for the good of the group.
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7. Implementation Ideas
Create groups that must communicate through online mediums
Group students across different classes
Partner with a teacher from another local school
Partner with another school from a different area
In groups provide guidance and structures with roles ahead of time
In groups have students take interest inventory and then match up
students to role that meets their interests/strenghts
8. References
Alexander, C. (2014). Student-Created Digital Media and Engagement in Middle School History. Computers In The
Schools, 31(3), 154-172. doi:10.1080/07380569.2014.932652
Bourke, Nicholas (2015). Test their Knowledge using student-created videos. Retrieved from
https://www.iste.org/explore/articleDetail?articleid=488&category=In-the-classroom&article
Crockett, L., Jukes, I., & Churches, A. (2011). Literacy is not enough: 21st–century fluencies for the digital age.
Thousand Oaks, CA: Corwin.