Wednesday, June 24, 2015

The Five Fluencies

The Five Fluencys


Information Fluency: refers to the ability to unconsciously interpret information in all different forms and formats in order to extract necessary information that can and will be useful to us. The process involves the following steps.
  • Ask
  • Acquire
  • Analyse
  • Apply
  • Assess
Solution fluency: The focal point of learning, so that we intuitively are able to adapt to new problems presented to us. This requires that the process be learnt and applied as often as possible until it becomes second nature, becoming an embedded skill. This means you need to know the process. These problems could be anything from learning a new skill, writing an essay, to creating artwork.
The process involves the following steps.


  • Define
  • Discover
  • Design
  • Deliver
  • Debrief
Media Fluency: Involves both the communication aspect, as well as the literacy. We cannot produce something without knowing how to use the technology, but we cannot leverage the message without understanding this.
  • Listening 
    • Message 
      • Verbalise
      • Verify
    • Medium
      • Form
      • Flow
      • Alignment
  • Leverage
    • Message
      • Content
      • Outline
    • Medium
      • Audience
      • ability
      • Criteria
Collaboration Fluency: All over the world there are people who are communicating and working together…yet they may never meet face to face! The reality is with today’s technology, distance has become a concept that is relative.
An overview of the process:
  • Establish
  • Envision
  • Engineer
  • Execute
  • Examine
Creative Fluency: Intelligence levels have traditionally only been measured in terms of math based thinking and linguistic skills. However, there are actually several levels of IQ. Gardner (1983) came up with the following:
  • Visual-Spatial
  • Linguistic - Verbal
  • Logical – Mathematical
  • Bodily – Kinaesthetic
  • Musical
  • Interpersonal
  • Intrapersonal (often referred to as EQ – Emotional Quotient)
  • Naturalistic

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