Cooperdavissmith's List: DGL Vocabulary

• Impacting Social Change Through Access to Computing Skills

  Worldwide

  In the twenty-first century knowledge economy, access to essential technology and computing skills is an important predictor of life opportunities. This white paper explores current technology drivers—including global Internet access, Web 2.0 technologies, and ubiquitous computing—and how the essential computing skills curriculum offered by Microsoft Digital Literacy has affected individuals in different geographies and socioeconomic circumstances all over the world.

• What is Digital Literacy?

   
   
  •  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 includes learning how to use technology’s tools. The list of digital tools is never ending. New releases make something that was new yesterday old today. Educators as well as students must thoughtfully determine which tools are essential to their digital literacy tool kit. Tool kit’s vary from one educator to another as they do from one student to another. Once you have mastered a particular tool, move on to another so you can increase your digital power.

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

• Well, first citizenship, which is formally defined as “the quality of an individual’s response to membership in a community.” This makes citizenship far more complex than a simple legal matter, but rather one that consists of self-knowledge, interaction, and intimate knowledge of a place, its people, and its cultural history.
• So digital citizenship is nearly the same thing–“the quality of a response to membership in a digital community” would be a good first crack at the definition.
• so a decent definition of digital citizenship then might be “Self-monitored participation that reflects conscious interdependence with all (visible and less visible) community members”
• good definition for educators: “The quality of habits, actions, and consumption patterns that impact the ecology of digital content and communities.”

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• But citizenship means more than behaving responsibly, it also means that we should be civically engaged: voting, keeping current and having our voice in political matters, and contributing to society. To this end, we need to get accurate information, and decide the verity of political messages that surround us. This same pro-active attitude and behavior also applies to the digital environment. Technology enables us to research significant social issues and to voice our opinions to a global audience.
  
• In short, digital citizenship means the ability to use technology safely, responsibly, critically, and pro-actively to contribute to society. 

• Digital identity refers to the ways and means that identity is created and perceived in the digital world, i.e., online. It includes unique descriptive data, as well as information about relationships. That is, it defines a thing both in and of itself and in relationship to other things. Both a person and a company can have a digital identity and while a person always has a concrete identity in the world, businesses may have a storefront identity and establish a digital presence as they establish an online presence in order to do business online. Alternatively, the digital identity may be the one and only identity. Barnes & Noble® is an example of the first type of business; Amazon® is an example of the second.

• Digital identity may be the next addition to “the core.” The manner in which we engage, share, promote, and present ourselves online has become a major facet in many of our lives
• Currently, social media are the dominant set of interactional spheres where digital identities are made manifest.

• Digital Law deals with society’s behaviour with using technology. On the internet, people get in trouble by the law or by their schools by doing the wrong thing online. 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.

• In a world in which every aspect of our lives seems to be increasingly dominated by technology, understanding your and your organization's legal risks and rights can be mind-boggling.
• : What kind of information may your organization collect about its users, clients, and employees, and how may that information be used?
• What are your obligations in protecting the privacy of your users, clients, and employees?
• How does copyright law apply to the digital and online worlds?
• What constitutes "fair use" in this new environment?

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• Digital Law Definition:

   
   The Legal rights and restrictions governing technology use.
  

• Digital Law Issues:

   
  • File Sharing
  • Pirated media
  • hacking
  • subverting digital right management software
  • stealing someone's identity

• Guidelines:

    1. All users must follow the Fair Use Guidelines that refer to copyrighted material.
   2. Violation of intellectual digital property rights is illegal. Consequently, the following activities are not allowed:
   
  • using file-sharing sites;
  • cracking or using using pirated software or media
  • subverting digital right management software.
  
   3. Violation of data integrity and/or privacy is unethical and may be illegal. Consequently, the following activities are not allowed:
   
  • hacking into systems or networks; and
  • using another person's identity as your own.

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• The digital native-immigrant concept describes the generational switchover where people are defined by the technological culture which they're familiar with.
• 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.
• Prensky cites the 100-meter runner Oscar Pistorius, an athlete with prosthetic legs, as an example of how technology is used to enhance our lives. He told CNN: "For humans, what used to be this body of flesh and bone, all that is now just the center... Being human is a moving target."

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• The aim of the Digital Natives project is to understand and support young people as they grow up in a digital age.

• The Digital Natives project focuses on the key legal, social, and political implications of a generation “born digital” – those who grow up immersed in digital technologies, for whom a life fully integrated with digital devices is the norm.
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  he culture of digital natives – a culture of connectivity, of public display, of sharing, of feedback, of constant availability and of global citizenship
• Our research informs our mission to provide recommendations to educators and legislators for reforms that make the most of the exciting possibilities young people’s digital fluency presents, supports youth in navigating the difficult issues, and ultimately engages technology in ways that strengthen our social institutions.

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• In contrast, those not born in the digital world reveal   their non-native status through a "Digital Immigrant accent" that   manifests itself in a number of ways—printing out a digital document to   edit it rather than editing it online, for example

• They were born understanding the finer points of tablets and smart phones. In fact, when you're confused about technology, the first step is to go find a ten-year-old. A digital native. If you're over fifty, though, you're a digital immigrant. You've come to a new country. You need a new vocabulary. You need to learn new customs and mores -- no, make that memes.

• Researchers use the term digital immigrant to classify people born before the introduction of digital technology.
• For Digital Immigrants, the popular technology for them was radio, television, newspapers, books, and magazines.
• Digital Immigrants are adapting to the digital technology introduced during their life time. Ironically, some Digital Immigrants created the digital technology used by Digital Natives.

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• Wiki is in Ward's original description:

  The simplest online database that could possibly work.

  Wiki is a piece of server software that allows users to freely create and edit Web page content using any Web browser. Wiki supports hyperlinks and has a simple text syntax for creating new pages and crosslinks between internal pages on the fly.

  Wiki is unusual among group communication mechanisms in that it allows the organization of contributions to be edited in addition to the content itself.

  Like many simple concepts, "open editing" has some profound and subtle effects on Wiki usage. Allowing everyday users to create and edit any page in a Web site is exciting in that it encourages democratic use of the Web and promotes content composition by nontechnical users.

• A wiki allows a group of people to enter and communally edit bits of text. These bits of text can be viewed and edited by anyone who visits the wiki.

  That's­ it. What it means is that, when you come to a wiki, you are able to read what the wiki's community has written. By clicking an "edit" button on an article, you are able to edit the article's text. You can add or change anything you like in the article you are reading.