Literacy Is Not Enough

21st-century Fluencies for the Digital Age

by Lee Crockett , Ian Jukes , Andrew Churches

Number of pages: 232

Publisher: Corwin

BBB Library: Education

ISBN: 978-1412987806



About the Authors

Lee Crockett : Lee Crockett is a national award-winning designer, artist, author, and international

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Ian Jukes : Ian Jukes is first and foremost a passionate educational evangelist. To

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Andrew Churches : Andrew Churches is a teacher and ICT enthusiast. He is an

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Editorial Review

It is no longer enough that we educate only to the standards of the traditional literacies. If students are to survive, let alone thrive, in the 21st-century culture of technology-driven automation, abundance, and access to global labor markets, then independent thinking and its corollary, creative thinking, hold the highest currency. To be competent and capable in the 21st century requires a completely different set of skills. These 21st-century fluencies (Solution Fluency, Information Fluency, Creativity Fluency, Media Fluency, Collaboration Fluency, and Global Digital Citizenship) are identified and explained in detail as processes that can be learned and applied by students. We go beyond the “why” we need to change and focus on the “how” to change.

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Wisdom to Share

It is no longer enough that we educate only to the standards of the traditional literacies. If students are to survive, let alone thrive, in the 21st-century culture of technology-driven automation, abundance, and access to global labor markets, then independent thinking and its corollary, creative thinking, hold the highest currency.

To help our students make a successful transition from school to life, we must shift the responsibility of learning from the teacher, where it has traditionally been, to the learners, where it belongs. Our job as educators will be to move from demanding the compliance of our students to making ourselves progressively redundant.

The new and different paradigm of teaching and learning is that of progressive withdrawal. Our responsibility must be to ensure that our students no longer need us by the time they graduate from school. This is no different than what we do as parents.

We must address the shift in thinking patterns that is happening to the digital generation. They live and operate in a multimedia, online, multitask, random access, color graphics, video, audio, visual world.

Transforming education is about developing the full spectrum of cognitive and emotional intelligences that are increasingly required in the culture of the 21st century.

Information Fluency is the ability to unconsciously and intuitively interpret information in all formats to extract the essential knowledge, perceive its meaning and significance, and use it to complete real-world tasks.

To create or to innovate means to bring something into existence that did not exist before. Creativity is the currency of the 21st century.

Collaboration Fluency is team-working proficiency characterized by the unconscious ability to work cooperatively with both real and virtual partners to solve real and simulated problems.

You’re the most important part of a young student’s life. You’re a worthy and experienced provider of knowledge, a giver of encouragement, and a nurturer of human potential. You are called upon in an age of uncertainty to be certain, and you are facing the greatest challenge we’ve ever faced, which is the challenge of change. Take pride in knowing that you can, and will, make a difference.

Talking at and teaching at students isn’t working. Only teaching that is relevant to the learner is effective. Only learning that has meaning sticks. Only teaching that is relevant to the learner is effective. This is called Velcro Learning.