Andrew Johnson's List: DGL Vocabulary

• Digital literacy involves more than the mere ability to use software or operate a digital device; it includes a large variety of complex cognitive, motor, sociological, and emotional skills, which users need in order to function effectively in digital environments

• Digital literacy is the ability to effectively and critically navigate, evaluate and create information using a range of digital technologies

• Defining Literacy in the 21st Century
• The ability to use digital technology, communication tools or networks to locate, evaluate, use and create information. ¹
• • he 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
• Raising a Digital Child and Digital Citizenship in Schools
• US Digital Literacy believes best practice for all schools is to provide funding for an Instructional Technologist in every school to facilitate digital and media literacy instruction for all children and all teachers and staff.

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• A digital citizen is one who knows what is right and wrong, exhibits intelligent technology behavior, and makes good choices when using technology.
• Mark Ribble had identified nine elements that together make up digital citizenship, which can be grouped into three categories

• those who use the Internet regularly and effectively
• a person generally must have extensive skills, knowledge, and access of using the Internet through computers, mobile phones, and web-ready devices to interact with private and public organizations.
• In developing countries digital citizens are sparser.
• 95% of all teens ages 12-17 are now online and 80% of those online teens are users of social media sites”

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• Digital citizenship can be defined as the norms of appropriate, responsible behavior with regard to technology use. 
• Digital Access:   full electronic participation in society.
• Digital Commerce:   electronic buying and selling of goods.
• Digital Communication:   electronic exchange of information.
•   Digital Literacy:   process of teaching and learning about technology and the use of technology.
• Digital Etiquette:   electronic standards of conduct or procedure.
• Digital Law:   electronic responsibility for actions and deeds
•   Digital Rights & Responsibilities:   those freedoms extended to everyone in a digital world.
• Digital Health & Wellness:   physical and psychological well-being in a digital technology world.
• Digital Security (self-protection):   electronic precautions to guarantee safety.

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• 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.

• A critical problem in cyberspace is knowing with whom you are interacting. In essence, the problem is that "on the Internet, nobody knows you're a dog."
• Digital Identity may also be referred to as a Digital Subject or Digital entity and is The digital representation of a set of Claims made by one Party about itself or another person, group, thing or concept
• Digital identity fundamentally requires digital identifiers—strings or tokens that are unique within a given scope (globally or locally within a specific domain, community, directory, application, etc.)

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• Digital identity refers to any digital representation (whole or partial)
  of an entity,
  in tangible or abstract form,
  either self-created,
  externally assigned
  or consequentially generated."

• Digital Law is defined as the electronic responsibility for actions, deeds which is either ethical or unethical.

• Digital law is any type of thing that someone does online that is against the law, such as identity theft, illegal music downloading, etc.

• Some examples of issues involving digital law include:

   
  • Hacking into other peoples things on their computer.
  • Getting music from illegal websites. Like getting music from lime wire.
  • Identity theft is also an issue involving digital law. People steal your credit card or any other information from you and they use it.

• A concluding section (V) suggests a few connections between these observations and the field of artificial intelligence and the law
• Digital technology can and is likely to loosen the law's tie to words.
• Digital technology can and is likely to improve law's implementation by enabling better/faster communication of legal information within government agencies (and courts).
• I predict that the future of legal information will include distribution of much more outcome data representing full populations of decisions
• Digital law should be far more effectively and equitably distributed.
• It is likely to be colorful, tuneful, even noisy, and capable of movement and interaction
• And finally it should offer both greater opportunity and greater influence for those working in Artificial Intelligence and the Law.

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• A digital native is a person who was born during or after the general introduction of digital technologies and through interacting with digital technology from an early age, has a greater understanding of its concepts.
• Marc Prensky coined the term digital native in his work Digital Natives, Digital Immigrants published in 2001.
• Education, as Marc Prensky states, is the single largest problem facing the digital world as our Digital Immigrant instructors, who speak an outdated language
• The term digital immigrant overlooks the fact that many people born before the digital age were the inventors, designers, developers and first users of digital technology and in this sense could be regarded as the original 'natives'

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• a person born or brought up during the age of digital technology and so familiar with computers and the Internet from an early age

• Digital Natives are people who have grown up in the digital world using technology as a way to communicate, record, educate, and understand society
• Digital Natives speak the language of technology and are as comfortable with technology as past generations have been with pen and paper.

• The war between natives and immigrants is ending. The natives have won.
• Prensky defines digital natives as those born into an innate "new culture"
• Digital poverty
• In India, over two-thirds of the population live on less than $2 a day, according to the World Bank. But a United Nations report still says that mobile phones are more common than toilets
• y 2020, Prensky predicts people across the globe will be plugged into the "AORTA," -- Always On RealTime Access -- a term coined by Mark Anderson

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• a person born or brought up before the widespread use of digital technology: