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Literacy Is Still Not Enough

Modern Fluencies for Teaching, Learning, and Assessment
By: Nicky Mohan, Ian Jukes, Ryan L. Schaaf

Foreword by George Saltsman

Six fluencies for today are examined with innovative steps to reflect social, cultural, and economic shifts. Practical resources feature Fluency Unit Plan Exemplars, assessment rubrics, and discussion questions.

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  • Grade Level: PreK-12
  • ISBN: 9781544381268
  • Published By: Corwin
  • Year: 2021
  • Page Count: 248
  • Publication date: February 02, 2021

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Description

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Modern fluencies provide a platform for authentic teaching, learning, and assessment

While reading, writing, and arithmetic remain important, they are no longer enough. For learners to thrive, they must move beyond traditional literacies to modern fluencies—the unconscious mental processes that are learned, adapted, and applied in the context of real-world problems and challenges.

In this book, the authors unpack the fluencies (solution, information, creativity, communication, collaboration, and global citizenship) to reflect the relentless social, cultural, and economic shifts of modern times. Practical resources are presented alongside:

  • Authentic Unit Plan Exemplars for each fluency
  • Assessment rubric examples
  • Discussion questions

Learners today must master an entirely different set of essential skills and knowledge needed to succeed than previous generations. This book provides a practical framework for integrating new fluencies into traditional curriculum.
Author(s)

Author(s)

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Nicky Mohan

Dr. Nicky Mohan is a global citizen by choice. Born and raised in South Africa, she now shares her time between New Zealand and Canada. Nicky has been a classroom teacher, a school administrator, a university leader, a business sector manager, a co-operate trainer, an international speaker, and a global consultant and acknowledged expert in the field of instructional design. Dr. Mohan also worked as the Director of Curriculum for the 21st Century Fluency Group (Canada). She is currently the Managing Partner of the InfoSavvy Group (Canada), and Director and co-founder of SpringBoard21 (USA), international educational consulting firms. Nicky has co-written five books including the award-winning Reinventing Learning for the Always-on Generation; and is a member of the Teacher Task Force - UNESCO core working group on ‘The Role of AI in Education’. To contact her and get to know more about her work and her team, follow @nickymohan on Twitter, visit their websites - https://infosavvy21.com/ and https://www.springboard21.com/ and subscribe to their YouTube channel https://www.youtube.com/c/TheCommittedSardines.
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Ian Jukes

Ian Jukes has been a teacher, an administrator, writer, consultant, university instructor, and keynote speaker. He is the director of the InfoSavvy Group, an international consulting group that provides leadership and program development in the areas of assessment and evaluation, strategic alignment, curriculum design and publication, professional development, planning, change management, hardware and software acquisition, information services, customized research, media services, and online training as well as conference keynotes and workshop presentations. Over the past 10 years, Jukes has worked with clients in more than 40 countries and made more than 7,000 presentations, typically speaking to between 300,000 and 350,000 people a year. His Committed Sardine Blog is read by more than 78,000 people in 75 countries.
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Ryan L. Schaaf

Ryan Schaaf is the Assistant Professor of Educational Technology at Notre Dame of Maryland University, and a faculty associate for the Johns Hopkins University School of Education Graduate Program, with over 15 years in the education field. Before higher education, Ryan was a 3rd-grade public school teacher, instructional leader, curriculum designer, and a technology integration specialist in Howard County, Maryland. In 2007, he was nominated for Howard county and Maryland Teacher of the Year.

In the past, Ryan has published several research articles in the New Horizons for Learning and the Canadian Journal of Action Research related to the use of digital games as an effective instructional strategy in the classroom.

Currently, he is overseeing and constructing peer-reviewed K-12 lesson units for the 21st Fluency Project, where he is also a featured contributor for the renowned Committed Sardine blog. He enjoys presenting sessions and keynotes about the potential for gaming in the classroom, the characteristics of 21st-century learning, and emerging technologies and trends in education.

Ryan is happily married to his beautiful wife Rachel and has two little boys that are his pride and joy. In his free time he enjoys fishing, exercising, gardening, and volunteering in local schools.

Table of Contents

Table of Contents

Foreword


Preface: Evolution of the Fluencies


Acknowledgments


About the Authors


PART I: Setting the Scene for the Modern Fluencies


Chapter 1: Highly Educated Useless People

Introduction

Chapter 2: Education in the Age of Disruption

Disruptive Innovation

The iPhone as a Disruptor

Disruption Is Everywhere

What Is Exponential?

HyperInformation

Where Do We Begin?

Chapter 3: From Literacy to Fluency: The Starting Point

Literacy Is Still Not Enough

Conscious Application of Essential Skills

Unconscious Application of Essential Skills

Modern Learning Fluencies

The Path Forward

Chapter 4: Modern Learning Pedagogy and the Learning Progression

Learning Theorists and the Modern Fluencies

The Progression of Thought and Learning

The Role of Technology in the Modern Fluencies

Using Mental Processes

Heutagogy and the Fluencies

Modern Learning Skills

Context and Meaning: The Velcro of Learning

Chapter 5: Modern and Future-Ready Learning Environments

Types of Modern Learning Environments

It’s All About Mindsets, Not Materials or Miracles

Know Thy Learner: Cultural Competency

The Learning Space: Fabricating a Place of Imagination and Endless Potential

Essential Attributes of Modern Learning Environments

Screen Time

Cultivating Optimal Learning Environments

PART II: An Introduction to the Modern Fluencies


Chapter 6: Teaching and Learning Using the Modern Fluencies

What Are the 6 Modern Fluencies?

Why There Are Nine Steps to Each Fluency

Chapter 7: Solution Fluency: Real-World Problem Solving

Step 1: Define

Step 2: Determine

Step 3: Discover

Step 4: Dream

Step 5: Design

Step 6: Deliver

Step 7: Diagnose

Step 8: Debrief

Step 9: Decide

Chapter 8: Collaboration Fluency: Global Connections

Step 1: Explain

Step 2: Establish

Step 3: Explore

Step 4: Envision

Step 5: Engineer

Step 6: Execute

Step 7: Examine

Step 8: Evaluate

Step 9: Extend

Chapter 9: Information Fluency: InfoWhelm and HyperInformation

Step 1: Ask

Step 2: Audience

Step 3: Access

Step 4: Authenticate

Step 5: Assemble

Step 6: Apply

Step 7: Assess

Step 8: Analyze

Step 9: Action

Chapter 10: Communication Fluency: Text and Multimedia

Step 1: Pose

Step 2: Pinpoint

Step 3: Prepare

Step 4: Picture

Step 5: Plan

Step 6: Produce

Step 7: Probe

Step 8: Ponder

Step 9: Pledge

Chapter 11: Creativity Fluency: Innovation and Imagination

IQ versus CQ

Step 1: Illustrate

Step 2: Identify

Step 3: Inquire

Step 4: Imagine

Step 5: Initiate

Step 6: Implement

Step 7: Inspect

Step 8: Investigate

Step 9: Inspire

Chapter 12: Global Citizenship: Citizenship in the Digital Age

Cultivating Good Citizens Online and Offline

Thinking Globally, Acting Locally

Global Citizenship Passport

Chapter 13: Authentic Assessment: Techniques and Strategies

Summative and Formative Assessments

Authentic Assessment

Rubrics

Types of Rubrics

Creating Assessments and Rubrics Aligned to the Modern Fluencies

The Overview of the Unit: Full of Hot Air

The Importance of Peer and Self-Assessment

Feedback and Feedforward

Reflection

Tools for Formative Assessment and Rubrics

PART III: Moving Forward


Chapter 14: The Future of Education Is Now: Are You Ready?

An Overview of the Fluencies

When and How to Use the Fluencies

Today’s Learners Are Different

Chapter 15: Fluency Resources

Fluency Digital Libraries

Fluency Lesson Sparks

Fluency Lesson Planning Template

References


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