Amanda Echevarria's List: DGL Vocabulary

• basic skills, I include computer basics, office applications (word, some spreadsheet skills, basic presentation capacity), Internet basics (email w/attachments, effective web searching), file management, and basics in computer and internet safety and security. At this point I'd consider some social media basics too
• xes: basic digital lit skills required for any job, and career specific skills (which include IT sector and not IT jobs).
• The ability to efficiently and effectively use technology resources to conduct research is huge. Not only to find information, but to understand how to sort and filter reliable and credible information from the web. Someone with digital literacy skills will now that keyword searches do not always yield effective results and will understand how to find and use web-based resources that help people conduct smarter searches.

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• To be successful in today's digital world, literacy goes far beyond being able to read and write. What it means to be digitally literate has reflected the change in how information is processed, delivered, and received in today's highly connected world.
• • The ability to use digital technology, communication tools or networks to locate, evaluate, use and create information. ¹
   
  •   The ability to understand and use information in multiple formats from a wide range of sources when it is presented via computers. ²
   
  •   A person’s ability to perform tasks effectively in a digital environment... Literacy includes the ability to read and interpret media, to reproduce data and images through digital manipulation, and to evaluate and apply new knowledge gained from digital environments. ³

• Digital citizenship is the norms of appropriate, responsible technology use.

• Digital Citizenship is a holistic and positive approach to helping children learn how to be safe and secure, as well as smart and effective participants in a digital world. That means helping them understand their rights and responsibilities, recognize the benefits and risks, and realize the personal and ethical implications of their actions.
• Safety & Security:  Understanding the risks that we face from others as well as from our own conduct, and the dangers posed by applications like viruses and phishing.
• Digital Literacy: Learning how to find, sort, manage, evaluate and create information in digital forms.  These literacy skills build on but are somewhat different from the traditional literacy of reading and writing
• Ethics & Community:  Becoming aware of and practicing appropriate and ethical behaviors in a variety of digital environments. This area includes shaping your digital reputation and being a responsible citizen of the communities in which you participate, from social networks, to games, to neighborhood civic forum

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• teaching users the rules of good citizenship online; this usually includes email ettiquette, protecting private information, staying safe online, and how to deal with bullying, whether you're a target or a bystander.

• Digital identity is a psychological identity that prevails in the domains of cyberspace, and is defined as a set of data that uniquely describes a person or a thing (sometimes referred to as subject or entity) and contains information about the subject's relationships to other entities.

• Digital Identity has been described as “the sum of all digitally available information about an individual.” It’s your digital footprint—the evidence of your life in tweets, Facebook updates, pins, blog posts and other interactions on the Web
• creating a detailed digital footprint
• This is your story in the making. This is the creation of your legacy. This is your Digital Identity
• Digital Identity is arguably your most important asset and it creates new problems and exciting new opportunities.

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• Digital Law deals with society’s behaviour with using technology.
• Some examples of what digital law deals with are plagiarism, illegal downloading of music, hacking and creating worms or viruses. Plagiarism is the most common thing that teenagers usually do.

• Prensky defines digital natives as those born into an innate "new culture" while the digital immigrants are old-world settlers, who have lived in the analogue age and immigrated to the digital world.

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• a person born or brought up during the age of

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  Someone who was born before the existence of digital technologies and adopted it to some extent later in life.

  Once a digital immigrant, Bob later learned how to use a smart phone.

• A digital immigrant is an individual who was born before the widespread adoption of digital technology. The term digital immigrant may also apply to individuals who were born after the spread of digital technology and who were not exposed to it at an early age. Digital immigrants are the opposite of digital natives, who have been interacting with technology from childhood.
• Digital immigrants are believed to be less quick to pick up new technologies than digital natives

• Immigrants being those people who were not born in a time when technology was not readily available to use at all times and have had to learn over time how to use it.