Media Fluency is critical to teach our students as they establish themselves as 21st-century learners. According to Watanabe-Crockett (2020), “teaching media fluency skills is crucial to the educational environment as technology continues to reshape how students think and react to digital media and the messages they receive.” Media fluency is communicating by technological formats, just as we were taught to do with written formats. By developing a media, fluency students are learning to think more critically, identify critical information, recognize bias and misinformation, and can send person media messages (Watanabe-Crockett, 2020). There are many ways that students can work to develop media fluency. Hunter (2019), shares that student needs to be able to deconstruct familiar media, and analyze what these platforms do for us, and how they work. Students also need to be able to learn skill and languages of media just like they do when learn the English language to become fluent. Finally, students need to shift from a consumer to a creator. By engaging in discussing and making original products, students can make that shift to get the most they can out of technology.
Hunter, H. (2019). Digital Media Fluency. Retrieved from https://www.haroldhunter.org/digital-media-fluency.html
Watanabe-Crockett, L. (2020). How to Teach Media Fluency Skills: 6 Cool Concepts to Try. Retrieved from https://wabisabilearning.com/blogs/future-fluencies/oncepts-teaching-media-fluency-skills
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