Christopher Pouncy'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.

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

• 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

• Resources

   
   
  1. Digital Strategy Glossary of Key Terms  http://www.digitalstrategy.govt.nz/Media-Centre/Glossary-of-Key-Terms/ accessed August 21, 2008.
   
  2. Paul Gilster,  Digital Literacy, New York: Wiley and Computer Publishing, 1997, p.1.
   
  3. Barbara R. Jones-Kavalier and Suzanne L. Flannigan:  Connecting the Digital Dots: Literacy of the 21st Century;  http://connect.educause.edu/Library/EDUCAUSE+Quarterly/ConnectingtheDigitalDotsL/39969

• A digital citizen is one who knows what is right and wrong, exhibits intelligent technology behavior, and makes good choices when using technology. To understand the complexity of digital citizenship and the issues of technology use, abuse, and misuse, Mark Ribble had identified nine elements that together make up digital citizenship, which can be grouped into three categories.
• Digital Rights and Responsibilities the privileges and freedoms extended to all digital technology users, and the behavioral expectations that come with them
• Digital Communication
    the electronic exchange of information
• Digital Access
    full electronic participation in society
• Digital Etiquette
    the standards of conduct expected by other digital technology users
• Digital Security
    the precautions that all technology users must take to guarantee their personal safety and the security of their network
• Digital Literacy
    the capability to use digital technology and knowing when and how to use it
• Digital Law
    the legal rights and restrictions governing technology use
• Digital Health and Wellness
    the elements of physical and psychological well-being related to digital technology use
• Digital Commerce
    the buying and selling of goods online

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• 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.

• As more and more students interact digitally–with content, one another, and various communities–the concept of digital citizenship becomes increasingly important.

   

  Which begs the question: what is digital citizenship?

   

  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.

   

  Revising that might more clearly articulate the differences between physical and digital communities, 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”

• Digital Identity has been described as "the sum of all digitally available information about an individual." It's your digital footprint—your life in updates, photos, comments, pins, blog posts and other online interactions.

• The electronic representation of a real-world entity. The term is usually taken to mean the online equivalent of an individual human being, which participates in electronic transactions on behalf of the person in question. However a broader definition also assigns digital identities to organizations, companies and even individual electronic devices. Various complex questions of privacy, ownership and security surround the issue of digital identity.

• Definition - What does Digital Identity mean?

   

  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.

• Techopedia explains Digital Identity

   

  Like its human counterpart, a digital identity is comprised of characteristics, or data attributes, such as the following:

   
   
  • Username and password
   
  • Online search activities, like electronic transactions
   
  • Date of birth
   
  • Social security number
   
  • Medical history
   
  • Purchasing history or behavior
  A digital identity is linked to one or more digital identifiers, like an email address, URL or domain name. Because identity theft is rampant on the Web, digital identity authentication and validation measures are critical to ensuring Web and network infrastructure security in the public and private sectors.

• Individuals do not need digital identities. They simply need to be able to control and manage their various digital profiles, assigning the appropriate attributes to each according to their context.

• Digital security is an increasingly important issue in our society. The Digital Security group works on a broad range of topics in computer security, including applied cryptography, security protocols, smartcards and RFID, and the security and correctness of software. We are also interested in societal aspects of digital security, such as privacy and e-voting, and interaction with disciplines outside computer science such as cryptography and law

• Digital Security means to protect information. It deals with the prevention and detection of unauthorized actions by users of a computer.

• The full definition of Digital Security (self-protection) is: taking necessary precautions to guarantee electronic digital safety.

• Critical thinking is the identification and evaluation of evidence to guide decision making. A critical thinker uses broad in-depth analysis of evidence to make decisions and communicate his/her beliefs clearly and accurately.

• Assuming that critical thinking is reasonable reflective thinking focused on deciding what to believe or do, a critical thinker:

   

  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

• 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.

• The process of independently analyzing, synthesizing, and evaluating information as a guide to behavior and beliefs.

• At UNC, 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.”

• 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

    FROM: Webster's New Collegiate Dictionary 9th ed, (Springfield, Ma: Merriam 1981, p. 870).

• Plagiarism   is submitting someone else's work for credit and utilizing their words,   ideas or data without acknowledging the information through proper use   of references.