EVALUATION OF TECHNOLOGY LEARNERS

How do the six basic digital skills affect the learners in using technology?

An effective learning process should be a product of developing such particular skills which starts with recognition of knowledge towards making judgment of ideas using the higher thinking skills.

            The basic digital skills affects learning process of a learner in using technology is by developing their higher thinking skills. Thus, these digital skills are interrelated with higher thinking skills in constructing their creativity, process of remembering or retrieving information, reflect on or evaluate messages, and capacity to interpret virtual translation. The first digital skill is the solution fluency which relies on the capability to create new techniques in problem solving that merely go through appropriate solution. This digital skill correlates the whole brain to think on the accurate answer that assesses the process and result. The second is information fluency, it refers on how a learner assesses, retrieve, and reflect on the information about digital messages in virtual world. The collaboration fluency deals with virtual and real interaction on the online environment and collaborates the cognitive domains in playing online games. The media fluency which is the fourth digital skills, needs an analytical mind in evaluating virtual messages and make or publish ability in understanding such information. The creativity fluency adds meaning on every graphics design or digital artworks to hide a message, and also making designs for PowerPoint presentation or websites. The last one which is the digital ethics that describes on how the individual must use technology for evaluating ones leadership, responsibility, awareness, and accountability as a digital users in virtual world.

            The six digital skills interrelates with higher thinking skills as well as the learners multiple intelligence and learning preferences.