How Do You Use Delicious to Develop the Five Fluencies?

How Do You Use Delicious to

Develop the Five Fluencies?

Solution Fluency

The problem-solving process is made easier using efficient social

bookmarking. Delicious bookmarks are tools that provide excellent resources for research in efficient problem-solving. As sites are researched and the bookmark database expands, tags can be used to narrow searches and make the process easier.

Information Fluence

Just saving bookmarks is a lower-order thinking skill. But with

Delicious, the appropriate use of tags, notes and keywords when bookmarking web sites and URLs indicates a higher level of understanding of the researched and bookmarked materials. This will help the student generate a base of much more relevant and informative sites for whatever research is being undertaken.

Collaboration Fluency

Delicious bookmarking networks are all about collaboration.

Teachers and students can work together by all creating their own individual accounts, and a “class account” through which everything can easily be moderated. Everyone can then share their findings and research on group projects.

Creativity Fluency

The creativity enhanced from social bookmarking comes from the interesting ways in which information can be organized and represented. Students can make creative use of charting or mind mapping techniques when organizing their findings during the website researching and bookmarking process.

Media Fluence

Social bookmarking is a chance for students to enhance their basic

understanding of how a website delivers its message and represents its content as they conduct searches for the best websites to bookmark for their project information database. They choose the best of what they discover to share on the class network.

The Digital Citizen

The students learn to conduct themselves appropriately in the

online world by avoiding sites that are inappropriate or offensive. They gain an understanding of the importance of courtesy and civility in social networks. They learn to respect each others’ choices and contributions in the teamwork process.