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Implementing Media and Collaboration Fluency in the Classroom

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Implementing Media and Collaboration Fluency in the Classroom

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To implement media and collaboration fluency in my classroom, I developed a lesson on life cycles for students using a variety of medium. Students will be working with a partner to research life cycles which they will then teach to the class.  Students will watch YouTube videos and read eBooks on the life cycles of a given living thing.  They will then use their research to create a wiki space using graphics, text, and audio.  They will need to collaborate with their partner on the content of their page and on the presentation. They will present their wiki space to the class to teach about life cycles.  We will compile all the wiki pages to one wiki space to present to other second grade classes.

I also use collaboration fluency in my classroom in literacy circles.  Students are introduced to several texts and they get to decide which one they would be interested in reading.  Students are then put into groups based on the book that they chose.  While in their literacy circle, they must work together to assign roles such as recorder, readers, speakers, etc.  They read the story and respond in discussion forums within their group.  The teacher serves as a facilitator but allows the students to control the flow of the activity.  Students must present their story to the class in a creative way at the end of the project.

Both of these activities support my students development of media and collaboration fluency. In both activities student's end project must be delivered in an appropriate way so that their peers get the intended message. They must decide on what to use in their presentations to gain the attention of their peers and teach them the information. In both activities students must work together to develop their solutions and must utilize their strengths and different perspectives in that solution. These activities have helped me in the realization that my students must be ready to separate from their teachers when they leave school. They will need to be able to function in the 21st century and be literate in 21st century skills.

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Crockett, L., Jukes, I., & Churches, A. (2011). Literacy is not enough: 21st–century fluencies for the digital age. Thousand  Oaks, CA: Corwin.
Global Digital Citizen Foundation. (n.d.a). Media fluency [Video file]. Retrieved from

http://globaldigitalcitizen.org/media-fluency-video
Global Digital Citizen Foundation. (n.d.b). Collaboration fluency [Video file]. Retrieved from http://globaldigitalcitizen.org/collaboration-fluency-video

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According to Crockett, Jukes, and Churches (2011)...
- "We define Collaboration Fluency as team-working proficiency characterized by the unconscious ability to work cooperatively with both real and virtual partners in both physical and virtual environments to solve real and simulated problems (p. 70)."
- "Students today can work in virtual partnerships on projects with kids from across town or across the world, and the skills they develop will help them greatly because the working world is being affected by the new communication technology as well (p. 70)."

Collaboration Fluency video attached. Click to watch!

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Crockett, Jukes, and Churches (2011) state, "We need to rethink what our definition of literate is, because a person who is literate by the standards of the 20th century may be illiterate in the culture of the 21st century (p. 57)."

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According to Crockett, Jukes, and Churches (2011)...
- "To the digital generation, images and video are powerful enough on their own to communicate messages.  The role of words is merely to complement images (p. 57)."
- "We live in an interactive visual world.  We all must be able to create and publish original digital products that help us communicate effectively with text, visual, and auditory elements.  Students today need to be able to communicate as effectively in graphical formats as we were taught to communicate with text (p. 58)."

Media Fluency video attached. Click to watch!