Andrae Sanders's List: Dgl vocabulary

• Digital Literacy is the ability to use information and communication technologies to find, evaluate, create, and communicate information, requiring both cognitive and technical skills.

• Digital literacy encompasses computer hardware, software (particularly those used most frequently by businesses), the Internet, cell phones, PDAs, and other digital devices. A person using these skills to interact with society may be called a digital citizen.

• Computer Skills and Access Issues. Having broadband access and knowing how to use the Internet enable full participation in society.

• Digital literacy is when students are able to engage with multi-media to read and interpret text, sounds and images. Digital literacy is when students can  manipulate and evaluate data to construct their own meaning. Digital literacy also includes a student having knowledge about  how to use technology to construct meaning, but most importantly in ways that are appropriate to their needs. Students who know how to use technology are also instructed by parents and teachers on how to use it effectively and appropriately to communicate a message.
• • Understanding how to use web browsers, search engines, email, text, wiki, blogs, Photoshop, Powerpoint, video creation/editing software , etc. to showcase learning.
  • Evaluating online resources for accuracy/trustworthiness of information.
  • Using online classes to enhance learning in the classroom.
  • Choosing appropriate media to showcase learning - understand what platforms will best illustrate your message and learning to peers and educators.
  • Using an interactive whiteboard in the classroom for lessons and allowing students to use the interactive whiteboard on a daily basis.
  • Encouraging students to use technology to showcase their learning.
  • Using the web ( web sites video, music) to enhance the learning of your students.
  • Students and teachers creating online content to be utilized both in and out of the classroom.
    

• ‘‘Digital citizenship’’ is the ability to participate in society online.
• We define ‘‘digital citizens’’ as those who use the Internet regularlyand effectively—that is, on a daily basis
• there are multiple and contend-ing U.S. traditions regarding citizenship: liberalism, republicanism, andascriptive hierarchy. These traditions frame our understanding of theissues related to digital citizenship.

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•             As noted above, digital citizenship is basically the safe, responsible, critical and pro-active use of technology.  

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  Digital Citizenship is a principle that helps users understand how to utilize technology in an appropriate way. 

• A digital identity is an online or networked identity adopted or claimed in cyberspace by an individual, organization or electronic device.

• To think critically is, among other  things, to be fair and open-minded while thinking carefully  about what to do or what to believe. If you are a critical  thinker, you will assess the reasons for and against doing  something and then make your decision on the basis of a fair  assessment, not on the basis of your emotions nor on what  your astrology column says nor on whether the person giving  you the reasons is looking you in the eye while sounding  sincere.

     
• Your adopting the attitude of the  critical thinker is essential if you are to avoid the  garbage on the path of life
• Critical thinking is the ability  to engage in reasoned discourse with intellectual  standards such as clarity, accuracy, precision, and  logic, and to use analytic skills with a fundamental  value orientation that emphasizes intellectual humility,  intellectual integrity, and fair-mindedness

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  rebuttal

     

  statistic

     

  stereotype

     

  strong argument (as opposed to a valid  one)

     

• ntestable claim

     

  vague

     

  valid argument (deductively  valid)

     

• Critical thinking merely means that one must not automatically accept the validity of the information he or she is given.
• a sense of curiosity and is interested in finding innovative solutions to problems
• examine previously held beliefs, opinions, or assumptions and objectively weigh them against fact
• as self-directed, self-monitored, and self-disciplined.
• how to analyze situations and suspend judgment until all available data has been gathered and considered

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• Copyright is a legal means of protecting an author's work. It is a type of intellectual property that provides exclusive publication, distribution, and usage rights for the author.
• ooks, poems, plays, songs, films, and artwork. In modern times, copyright protection has been extended to websites and other online content.

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  Copyright refers to a Federal law that protects work created by you or anyone else from being copied, changed, or used without permission.  In other words, when you create something like a story, photograph, poem, song, or drawing, it belongs to you and others have to get your permission to use it.
•    You may avoid the copyright issue by simply writing or emailing the person who created the work and asking permission to use it. 

• Plagiarize \'pla-je-,riz also j - -\ vb -rized; -riz·ing vt [plagiary] : to steal and pass off (the ideas or words of another) as one's own : use (a created production) without crediting the source vi: to commit literary theft: present as new and original an idea or product derived from an existing source - pla·gia·riz·er n
• • Without the reference, why should you believe me?

       

• Digital Rights & Responsibilities: those freedoms extended to every student, administrator, teacher, parent or community member. Just as in the American Constitution where there is a Bill of Rights, there is a basic set of rights extended to every digital citizen. Digital citizens have the right to privacy, free speech, etc. Basic digital rights must be addressed, discussed, and understood in the schoo district.

• Rights and responsibilities are the privileges and freedoms extended to all digital technology users, and the behavioral expectations that come with them
• ight of copyright, and plagiarism