• Digital literacy is the ability to find, evaluate, utilize, share, and create content using information technologies and the Internet.

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

• Whether you are new to computing or have some experience, this curriculum will help you develop a fundamental understanding of computers. The courses help you learn the essential skills to begin computing with confidence, be more productive at home and at work, stay safe online, use technology to complement your lifestyle, and consider careers where you can put your skills to work.

• 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.
• 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.

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  igital Citizenship is a concept which helps teachers, technology leaders and

  parents to understand what students/children/technology users should know to use technology appropriately. Digital Citizenship is more than just a teaching tool; it is a way to prepare students/technology users for a society full of technology. Digital citizenship is the norms of appropriate, responsible technology use.  Too often we are seeing students as well as adults misusing and abusing technology but not sure what to do. The issue is more than what the users do not know but what is considered appropriate technology usage.
   

   

• understand-ing digital citizenship as an integral part of inclusion in the larger society,rather than simply providing entertainment, convenience, or even eco-nomic efficiency.
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• A digital identity is an online or networked identity adopted or claimed in cyberspace by an individual, organization or electronic device. These users may also project more than one digital identity through multiple communities. In terms of digital identity management, key areas of concern are security and privacy.

• Digital identity can be defined as all the online information and data specifically about an individual.

• Digital identity

   

  Digital identity is all the online information and data specifically about an individual.

   

  Digital identity is made up of elements that fall into four categories (source: Lionel Maurel / Fadhila Brahimi):

   
   
  • Authentication elements: identification number, IP address, email address, user name, password, last name, first name, alias, etc.
   
  • Data: personal, administrative, banking, occupational, social data, etc.
   
  • Identifiers: photograph, avatar, logo, image, etc.
   
  • Digital traces: contributions to blogs and other content management systems, links, etc.
   
   

• The Center for Internet Security (CIS) is a nonprofit organization focused on enhancing the cyber security readiness and response of public and private sector entities, with a commitment to excellence through collaboration.

• Six tips to help you stay safer online

• Defend your computer
• Protect sensitive personal information
• Create strong passwords and keep them secret
• Take charge of your online safety and reputation
• Use social networks more safely
• Talk to your kids about staying safer online

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• Securing Your Wireless Network
• Understand How a Wireless Network Works
• Use Encryption
• Secure Your Computer and Router
• Limit Access to Your Network
• Don’t Assume That Public Wi-Fi Networks Are Secure

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• Defining Critical Thinking
• Critical thinking is the intellectually disciplined process of actively and skillfully conceptualizing, applying, analyzing, synthesizing, and/or evaluating information gathered from, or generated by, observation, experience, reflection, reasoning, or communication, as a guide to belief and action.
• Critical thinking can be seen as having two components: 1) a set of information and belief generating and processing skills, and 2) the habit, based on intellectual commitment, of using those skills to guide behavior.
• Critical thinking is self-guided, self-disciplined thinking which attempts to reason at the highest level of quality in a fair-minded way.

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• Critical thinking is the ability to gather and assess information and evidence in a balanced and reflective way to reach conclusions that are justified by reasoned argument based on the available evidence. Critical thinking is a key skill in the information age, valuable in all disciplines and professions.

• A critical thinker:
   1. Is open-minded and mindful of alternatives
   2. Desires to be, and is, well-informed
   3. Judges well the credibility of sources
   4. Identifies reasons, assumptions, and conclusions
   5. Asks appropriate clarifying questions
   6. Judges well the quality of an argument, including its reasons, assumptions, evidence, and their degree of support for the conclusion
   7. Can well develop and defend a reasonable position regarding a belief or an action, doing justice to challenges
   8. Formulates plausible hypotheses
   9. Plans and conducts experiments well
   10. Defines terms in a way appropriate for the context
   11. Draws conclusions when warranted – but with caution
   12. Integrates all of the above aspects of critical thinking

• What is Plagiarism?

• According to the Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, to "plagiarize" means

  • to steal and pass off (the ideas or words of another) as one's own
  • to use (another's production) without crediting the source
  • to commit literary theft
  • to present as new and original an idea or product derived from an existing source

  In other words, plagiarism is an act of fraud. It involves both stealing someone else's work and lying about it afterward.

• Plagiarism and Society

   

  Online Ethics defines plagiarism as “appropriating the writings, graphic representation, or ideas of another person to represent them as one's own work without proper attribution” (The Online Ethics…). Plagiarism can be intentional or unintentional with a majority of student's claiming they did not know they needed to site sources in the first place (Logue 40). Plagiarism is not illegal, but all academic institutions have some sort of disciplinary action against it. As opposed to copyright infringement, which is the stealing of others' ideas for financial gain, plagiarism is the stealing of ideas for non-profit use.

• What Is Plagiarism?
• Definition: In an instructional setting, plagiarism occurs when a writer deliberately uses someone else’s language, ideas, or other original (not common-knowledge) material without acknowledg­ing its source.
• 1. submitting someone else’s text as one’s own or attempting to blur the line between one’s own ideas or words and those borrowed from another source, and
   
  2.   carelessly or inadequately citing ideas and words borrowed from another source.
   
   

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• Cyber rights and cyber liberties

   While technology should not dictate policy, any policy must protect privacy, the activists say. They question whether governments should have the right to examine private electronic information without the search warrant they need if the information were transmitted on paper.

• Definition: “Collaborative media” is the term we use to refer to digital media that enables broad-range participation where the distinctions between production, consumption and design are dissolving.