Core elements of digital citizenship

Nine elements of digital citizenship and the five fluencies.

Nine elements of digital citizenship.Digital accessDigital literacyDigital rights and responsibilitiesDigital commerceDigital etiquetteDigital health and wellnessDigital communicationDigital lawDigital security

The grouping of the nine elements• It is important to note that there is a general grouping of these

elements.• The first three which are digital access, communication and literacy

refers to the learning of the user.• The second group which is the digital etiquette, safety and security,

and rights and responsibilities refers to the behaviour and environment.• The last group deals with the outside environment, digital law,

commerce and health and wellness.

The five fluencies of digital citizenshipInformation fluencySolution fluencyCreative fluencyCollaboration fluencyMedia fluency

Information and solution fluency• Information fluency is the ability to interpret information in all forms

in order to extract the essential knowledge, perceiving its meaning in order to be able to use it in real world tasks.• Solution fluency is about problem solving- solving a problem

presented to us through an intuitive process• Solution fluency is build on information fluency

The process steps of information fluencyAsk good questions in order to get good answersAcquire the source of informationAnalyse the various sources foundApply that knowledge to real world problemsAssess the results

The process steps of solution fluencyoDefine the problemoDiscover the problem at all anglesoDream, move forward and think of solutions oDesign, plan to make the solution a realityoDeliver, put the plan into actionoDebrief, evaluation proccess

Media and collaboration fluency• Media fluency is two-fold: interpreting (listening) of the media and

leveraging this for our own input (communication).• We cannot produce something without knowing how to use the

technology but we cannot leverage the message without understanding• All over the world there are people who are working and

communication with each other but have never met.• With today’s technology distance has became a concept that is

relative.

The process steps of media fluency

Listening to the messageVerbaliseVerifyListening- mediumForm Flow alignment

The process steps of collaboration fluencyEstablishEnvisionEngineerExecuteExamine