danielle bergeron's List: DGL Vocabulary

• Digital identity refers to the ways and means that identity is created and perceived in the digital world, i.e., online.
• . 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

• the sum of all digitally available information about an individual.

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• Maintaining a Digital Identity is a simple first step toward establishing transparency and trust for members of your organization but having those profiles aggregated under Corporate groups on LinkedIn and Facebook creates the impression of a professional and cohesive brand.
• The Digital Identity platform gives your team the necessary presence online to improve market insight and can help maintain shareholder value by monitoring online communities where opinions about the business are being formed and spread through the network.
• A connected network of Digital Identities within your organization enables more effective management of the brand's collective online reputation

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• Digital 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.
• how should we act when we are online, and what should be taught to the next generation

• o digital citizenship is nearly the same thing–”the quality of a response to membership in a digital community
• “The quality of habits, actions, and consumption patterns that impact the ecology of digital content and communities.”

• Nine elements of digital citizenship

   
    
  • Digital access: full electronic participation in society
    
  • Digital literacy: the process of teaching and learning about ICTs and the use of ICTs
    
  • Digital communication: electronic exchange of information

• School environment and student behaviour

   
    
  • Digital security (self protection): electronic precautions to guarantee safety
    
  • Digital etiquette: electronic standards of conduct or procedure
    
  • Digital rights and responsibilities: those freedoms extended to everyone in a digital world

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  • Digital commerce: electronic buying and selling of goods
    
  • Digital heath and wellness: physical and psychological wellbeing in a digital technology world
    
  • Digital law: rights and restrictions

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  •  The ability to understand and use information in multiple formats from a wide range of sources when it is presented via computers.  ² 
   
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• The ability to use digital technology, communication tools or networks to locate, evaluate, use and create information.

• The ability to locate, organize, understand, evaluate, and analyze information using
• digital technology
• It involves a working knowledge of current high-technology, and an
• understanding of how it can be used

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• Digital literacy is more than knowing how to send a text or watch a music video. It means having the knowledge and ability to use a range of technology tools for varied purposes. A digitally literate person can use technology strategically to find and evaluate information, connect and collaborate with others, produce and share original content, and use the Internet and technology tools to achieve many academic, professional, and personal goals.

• From bank accounts to personal photos and messages, we all have more than ever stored on digital devices and online accounts
• No matter how non-tech savvy any given person is, we all live a digital lifestyle now, and it’s important that we keep it safe

• Security issues can be divided into two categories: system security (for example, ensuring that other people cannot change your Web site) and information security  (for example, ensuring that the customer details from an online store are safe).

• Digital Security means to protect i

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• 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. In its exemplary form, it is based on universal intellectual values that transcend subject matter divisions: clarity, accuracy, precision, consistency, relevance, sound evidence, good reasons, depth, breadth, and fairness.
• purpose, problem, or question-at-issue;
• in being responsive to variable subject matter, issues, and purposes
• 2) the habit, based on intellectual commitment, of using those skills to guide behavior.
• Critical thinking can be seen as having two components
• 1) a set of information and belief generating and processing skills,
• Critical thinking is self-guided, self-disciplined thinking which attempts to reason at the highest level of quality in a fair-minded way
• They are keenly aware of the inherently
• People who think critically consistently attempt to live rationally, reasonably, empathically
• flawed nature of human thinking when left unchecked
• ritical thi
• ny subject, content, or
• nking is that mode of thinking - about a
• er thinking
  by skillfully taking charge of the structures inherent in thinking and
  imposing intellectual standards upon them.
• problem
• improves the quality of his or h
• - in which the thinker
• Critical thinking is, in short, self-directed, self-disciplined, self-monitored, and self-corrective thinking
• It presupposes assent to rigorous standards of excellence and mindful command of their use
• It entails effective communication and problem solving abilities and a commitment to overcome our native egocentrism and sociocentrism.

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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 evidenc
• Critical thinking is a key skill in the information age, valuable in all disciplines and professions.

• The process of independently analyzing, synthesizing, and evaluating information as a guide
• behavior and beliefs.
• Critical thinking skills include the ability to interpret, verify, and reason, all of which involve applying the
• principles of logic

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• pass off
• to steal
• (the ideas or words of another) as one's own
• to use (another's production) without crediting the source
• to present as new and original an idea or product derived from an existing source
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• stealing
• In other words, plagiarism is an act of fraud. I
• lying
• about it afterward
• work a
• involves

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• as presenting
• ncluding the work
• someone else's work,
• as one's own
• taken from another
• of other students,
• Any ideas or materials
• be fully acknowledged
• unless the
• source for either written
• or oral use must
• information is common knowledge

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• The definition of plagiarism varies by differing institutions and is considered a difficult concept to define. Plagiarism can include a range of possibilities including incorrect citation to full-blown cheating.
• Some students can actually plagiarize without knowing it, while others do so with planful deliberation. Put simply, the Honor Council’s definition of plagiarism is “the act of passing off as one’s own the ideas or writings of another.” In addition to this definition of plagiarism, there are also differing types.

• having the right and freedom to use all
• types of digital technology while using the technology in an
• acceptable and appropriate
• manner
• because although we have the right to privacy and freedom in the digital world, we do have a responsibility to use it wisely and respect the works of others

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• The privileges all digital technology users have and the expected behaviors that go along with those privileges.
• Digital citizens have "digital right
• Topics included under Digital Rights and Responsibilities include:
• come with responsibilities and expectations that you will behave and use technology appropriately
• Citing sources and plagiarizing.
• Using digital devices for the wrong reasons, such as cheating in school or harrassing others
• Abiding by the school's agreement of acceptable use when using school technolog
• Reporting violations of your personal rights or violations of other's.
• When your rights are violated, there's not only legal consequences, but emotional ones too. Consider what the consequences are as you read and view the following links in this section.

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