Christopher Marshall's List: DGL Vocabulary

• • 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 Literacy is “the interest, attitude and ability of individuals to appropriately use digital technology and communication tools to access, manage, integrate, analyze and evaluate information, construct new knowledge, create and communicate with others in order to participate effectively in society”.

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

• Examples of Digital Literacy
  

   
  • 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 usually defined as the "norms of behavior with regard to technology use." It encompasses digital literacy, ethics, etiquette, online safety, norms, rights, culture and more.

• Digital Citizenship   Students understand human, cultural, and societal issues related to technology and practice legal and ethical behavior. Students:  

  a.	advocate and practice safe, legal, and responsible use of information and technology.
  b.	exhibit a positive attitude toward using technology that supports collaboration, learning, and productivity.
  c.	demonstrate personal responsibility for lifelong learning.
  d.	exhibit leadership for digital citizenship.

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

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

• Identity is a unique piece of information associated with an entity. Identity itself is simply a collection of characteristics which are either inherent or are assigned by another. The color of a person's hair and whether or not another thinks he is attractive is part of a person's identity.
• Basically, the essential and unique characteristics of an entity are what identify it.
• Often, a unique characteristic serves as the representation or identifier for identity.

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• "A person or thing represented or existing in the digital realm which is being described or dealt with."

• personal protection and help defend network security.

• protective digital privacy measures that are applied to prevent unauthorized access to computers, databases and websites.

• Digital security is the protection of your digital identity - the network or Internet equivalent of your physical identity. Digital security includes the tools you use to secure your identity, assets and technology in the online and mobile world

• Critical thinking — in being responsive to variable subject matter, issues, and purposes — is incorporated in a family of interwoven modes of thinking, among them: scientific thinking, mathematical thinking, historical thinking, anthropological thinking, economic thinking, moral thinking, and philosophical thinking.
• 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 the identification and evaluation of evidence to guide decision making.

• 1. Is open-minded and mindful of alternatives
   2. Tries to be well-informed
   3. Judges well the credibility of sources
   4. Identifies conclusions, reasons, and assumptions
   5. Judges well the quality of an argument, including the acceptability of its reasons, assumptions, and evidence
   6. Can well develop and defend a reasonable position
   7. Asks appropriate clarifying questions
   8. Formulates plausible hypotheses; plans experiments well
   9. Defines terms in a way appropriate for the context
   10. Draws conclusions when warranted, but with caution
   11. Integrates all items in this list when deciding what to believe or do

   

• To think critically is, among other  things, to be fair and open-minded while thinking carefully  about what to do or what to believe.
• Thinking critically about a claim  involves interpreting it correctly, accepting or rejecting  it only for good reasons, and drawing reasonable conclusions  from it.

• Critical thinkers draw conclusions only after they have defined their terms, distinguished fact from opinion,  asked relevant questions,  made detailed observations,  and uncovered assumptions.  Critical thinkers make assertions based on solid evidence and sound logic.

• Active, persistent, and careful consideration of a belief or supposed form of knowledge in the light of the grounds which support it and the further conclusions to which it tends
• An attitude of being disposed to consider in a thoughtful way the problems and subjects that come within the range of one’s experience
• [T]he process of evaluation or categorization in terms of some previously accepted standards

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• plagiarism is defined as “the deliberate or reckless representation of another’s words, thoughts, or ideas as one’s own without attribution in connection with submission of academic work, whether graded or otherwise.

• • 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