Andrew Heinz's List: DGL Vocabulary

So what does that make the rest of us? Those of us who were not born into the digital   world but have, at some later point in our lives, become fascinated by and adopted many   or most aspects of the new technology are, and always will be compared to them, Digital   Immigrants. (Prensky, 2001, pp. 1-2)

 

According to Prensky and others who have adopted the terms, digital immigrants who possess "accented" behavior due to their untechnologically saturated backgrounds, struggle to teach and engage with digital natives who think, learn, and respond differently than previous generations due to their immersion in technology. Digital natives are not physically or mentally wired to respond to the "old" methods of teaching but instead require new pedagogical methods and educational content which responds better to their multi-tasking, fast-downloading, hypertext-surfing ways.

Researchers use the term digital immigrant to classify people born before the introduction of digital technology. For Digital Immigrants, the popular technology for them was radio, television, newspapers, books, and magazines. Digital Immigrants are adapting to the digital technology introduced during their life time. Ironically, some Digital Immigrants created the digital technology used by Digital Natives.

Demographic that’s focused on an age of modern communcation, global term.

• noun 1 a person who has grown up using digital technology. 2 a person that communicates using 21st century methods. 3 a person that annoys non-digital natives that have tried to learn the ways of digital natives.

e the generation born during or after the general introduction of digital technology. While individuals from elder generations recall organizing, planning and interacting with one another without mobile devices, computers or the Internet, Digital Natives have been using these technologies since their early years. They are the same, but different to previous generations.

Digital Natives have an inherent understanding of digital technologies, as they’ve been integrated into their lives since early childhood. They are part of a tech-savvy generation at the forefront of technological progress and want to be connected when they wish, from anywhere. Now graduated from secondary education, the first generation of Digital Natives is entering the working world – and transforming it at a fast pace. Is the workplace ready to embrace this change?

Multimodal is defined in the Australian Curriculum as the strategic use of ‘two or more communication modes‘ to make meaning,  for example image, gesture, music, spoken language, and written language.

What is a multimodal text?

While the development of multimodal literacy is strongly associated with the growth of digital communication technologies, multimodal is not synonymous with digital. The choice of media for multimodal text creation is therefore always an important consideration.

Multimodality is an inter-disciplinary approach that understands communication and representation to be more than about language. It has been developed over the past decade to systematically address much-debated questions about changes in society, for instance in relation to new media and technologies.

Multimodal approaches have provided concepts, methods and a framework for the collection and analysis of visual, aural, embodied, and spatial aspects of interaction and environments, and the relationships between these

A unit of cultural information, such as a practice or idea,  that is transmitted verbally or by action from one mind to another. 

Meme” was coined by the often controversial evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins in his 1976 book, The Selfish Gene.  In it, he states the following:

We need a name for the new replicator, a noun that conveys the idea of a unit of cultural transmission, or a unit of imitation. ‘Mimeme’ comes from a suitable Greek root, but I want a monosyllable that sounds a bit like ‘gene’. I hope my classicist friends will forgive me if I abbreviate mimeme to meme. If it is any consolation, it could alternatively be thought of as being related to ‘memory’, or to the French word même. It should be pronounced to rhyme with ‘cream’

A fundamental principle for any educational institution, academic integrity is highly valued and seriously regarded at The University of Texas at Austin. More specifically, you and other students are expected to maintain absolute integrity and a high standard of individual honor in scholastic work undertaken at the University. This is a very basic expectation that is further reinforced by the University's Honor Code. At a minimum, you should complete any assignments, exams, and other scholastic endeavors with the utmost honesty, which requires you to: 

  
 
• acknowledge the contributions of other sources to your scholastic efforts;
 
• complete your assignments independently unless expressly authorized to seek or obtain assistance in preparing them;
 
• follow instructions for assignments and exams, and observe the standards of your academic discipline; and
 
• avoid engaging in any form of academic dishonesty on behalf of yourself or another student.