My PowerPoint on digital fluency.

1. DIGITAL FLUENCY
By Olivia Lloyd

2. WHAT IS DIGITAL
FLUENCY?
■ According to Jennifer Howell, 2013, digital
fluency is the ability to use digital technologies in
a confident manner.

3. DIGITAL PEDAGOGIES
■ “A digital pedagogy is a complex blend of skills
and aptitude (Howell, 2013)
■ Firm curricular foundations that incorporate
creativity, play and exploration or
experimentation
■ Teachers need to be familiar with the resources
that they are going to be using
■ Important to develop a set of skills that are quite
specific

4. THE
PRIMARY
CLASSROO
M
The focus of teaching in this stage based on
these important areas:
1.To assist in the development of emerging
literacy and numeracy skills
2.To offer an alternative tool for use in creative,
experimental and purposeful activity
3.To develop a strong set of basic skills to be
built upon throughout schooling
Individual Departments of Education across
Australia have their own guidelines

5. DEVELOPING
DIGITAL
FLUENCY
■ The types of technologies that
students will find themselves
engaging with in activities are
focused on furthering the skills
that they already had
■ Students will be engaging in
activities from the same
categories but those will all
have very different outcomes.
■ The aim of these activities will
be to develop digital content
creators, technology innovators
and digitally fluent learners

6. DIGITAL FLUENCY
In primary school
students should
already have a strong
grounding in the basics
of technology
A lot of the time will be
focused on building
and refining those
skills
Students are described
as “technology
neophytes” which is
also known as
beginners.

7. A GENERAL
CHECKLIST
Be able to use proficiently Word, PowerPoint, Excel and Publisher
Be familiar with some higher-level technology programs, Be able to
create digital artefacts, for example, videos and podcasts
Be proficient in web searching
Have developed understanding of digital literacy
Be experienced in and understand the strengths and weaknesses of
Web 2.0
Be experienced in blogging, podcasts, RSS feeds
Have experience in more complex technologies
Understand the associated language

8. WORD PROCESSING
■ Basic but important skill
■ Expected to:
1. Be able to useWord to produce a document
2. Save a document
3. Ability to navigate a keyboard
4. Know how to send a document to a printer

9. SPREADSHEETS
(EXCEL)
■ Expected to:
1. Save a document and understand the different
formats
2. Be able to navigate a keyboard
3. Know how to send a document to a printer as can be
difficult when using spreadsheets

10. ADVANCEDWEB
SEARCHING SKILLS
■ Expected to:
1. Understand the different domain names
■ The Domain Names:
1. .gov – government agencies
2. .edu – education institutions
3. .org – organisations (non-profit)
4. .net – network organisations
5. .mil – military
6. .int - international

11. THANK
YOU