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• The D.C. Department of Employment Services (DOES) will provide training on basic technology tools to help ensure participating residents can develop the digital skills required for many of today's jobs. DOES will identify candidates with gaps in digital literacy and help them to close those gaps by teaching residents digital basics through Microsoft's Digital Literacy Curriculum. DOES and Microsoft will also provide residents with training on Microsoft productivity software. Upon completion of a training program, many residents will receive a certificate of technology proficiency that can be added to their resumes.

   

  The D.C. Public Schools will partner with Microsoft to provide District teachers with increased access to technology resources to bolster their ability to teach vital technological skills to students. Students will also have the opportunity to meet technology professionals at Microsoft’s D.C. Innovation Center to explore career opportunities in the technology sector.

• he 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.

• Digital Literacy 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 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.

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

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    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

• 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. That means helping them understand their rights and responsibilities, recognize the benefits and risks, and realize the personal and ethical implications of their actions.

• An individual’s digital identity which is used for transactional purposes has crucial functions which give it legal personality. The author argues that an individual’s digital identity also has the characteristics of property which can, and should, be legally protected. Identity theft is defined using the emergent concept and the study shows that digital identity is property which capable of actually being stolen and criminally damaged.

• study examines the emergence of attendant legal rights and duties including a new right to digital identity and its legal protection. Dr Sullivan argues that an individual has the right to an accurate, functional digital identity and shows that this right exists in addition to the right to privacy.

   

  Dr Sullivan maintains that, considering the essentially public nature of identity, the right to identity provides better, and more appropriate, protection than is afforded by the right to privacy. She asserts that the importance of the right to identity in this context has been obscured by the focus on privacy in international legal scholarship and jurisprudence.

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  Definition - What does Digital Identity mean?

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  identity authentication and validation measures are critical to ensuring Web and network infrastructure security in the public and private sectors.  

• Working with identity is a critical part of what most .NET application developers do. Whether an application will be accessed within just one company, shared across different organizations, or made available on the Internet, identity has an enormous impact on how an application behaves. Who is allowed to use this application? Does the application behave differently for different users? What data can each user access, and what kind of access is allowed? Whether an application is built by using ASP.NET, Microsoft Windows Communication Foundation (WCF), or some other technology, identity affects its design and behavior in important ways.

  Identity in the physical world is expressed in a variety of forms: driver’s licenses, passports, and more. For applications, however, identity typically boils down to a set of bits that are transmitted across the wire, and then used by software. Commonly known as digital identity, this concrete expression of identity is what .NET applications typically work with.

• What is Digital Identity?

    

  21. From the real-life notion of identity, we develop the concept of identity as used online. At its core is the idea that individuals can express their identity in digital format. However, a "digital identity" is typically a subset of the characteristics that define a person in the real world.^{Footnote 14} A digital identity is the result of digital codification of characteristics and attributes in a way that is suitable for processing by computer systems.^{Footnote 15} It represents a particular persona when engaging in online activities, which can be accessed by electronic or technical means. Unlike real-life identity, digital identities can range from a simple username/password combination unrelated to any specific  attribute or characteristic of the person to one that relies on sensitive and personally identifiable information from official credentials.

    

  22. However, the concept of a digital identity introduces some interesting complexities and challenges. First, an individual may have more than one valid digital identity, the characteristics of which may vary according to the context^{Footnote 16}, application, or service in which it is used. For example, an individual may present a digital identity in order to access online services that rely on official credentials (e.g., passport, driver's licence), and another completely different digital identity for online social communities (e.g., www.facebook.com/). This spectrum or continuum of available digital identities allows different digital identities to be used depending on context that can be chosen according to the purpose or service being offered.

    

  23. Secondly, digital identity in the networked world is not fixed but fluid; it changes over time and typically needs to be updated. For example, the attribute of age changes over time, and elements such as mailing address or telephone number need to be verified periodically. Therefore, digital identities are not necessarily unique, static or permanent.

• "Are you who you say you are?" and "Is my data safe with you?"

   

  Digital Security means answering those questions with solutions that  protect and enhance assets and interactions.

• Digital security isn’t just about the journalist. It’s for everyone they work with: colleagues, fixers and sources, as well as themselves. It must be thought about and set up in advance. An easily discovered online trail can not just endanger you while you’re in the field, it can uncover the sources you’ve worked with to create your piece. It can expose colleagues who may still be in the field after you’ve moved on. It can put family members in danger, especially if you’re a locally operating freelancers.
• We’ve curated and created this digital security resource for freelancers based on the idea that security is a conditional requirement in conflict areas and for those working on sensitive projects, often coping with antagonistic governments and groups who’d prefer the information stayed out of the public's knowledge. Managing your digital security is as important as safety training, doing a risk assessment, choosing the right equipment or insurance.
  

• The importance of digital security and privacy cannot be overstated.

   

  From human rights advocates, journalists and activists to the average user, the possibility of your communications being monitored, or the threat of your personal identity or location being exposed, pose a considerable risk, especially if you are working with sensitive information or issues. A digital security strategy that is thorough and covers all angles is essential, as it will only be as strong as its weakest link. You don't want to simply lock the door to your house when all the windows are open!

   

  What is digital security and privacy?
  

   

  Signs that information rights or digital security have been compromised might include:

   
  • Passwords that change mysteriously
   
  • Private messages that appear to have been read by someone other than the intended recipient
   
  • Websites that have become inaccessible from certain countries
   
  • Officials revealing knowledge about private correspondence, including dates, names or topics discussed
   
  • Mobile phone conversations that individuals believe have been monitored

• Critical thinking is the ability to think clearly and rationally. It includes the ability to engage in reflective and independent thinking. Someone with critical thinking skills is able to do the following : 

   
   
  • understand the logical connections between ideas
   
  • identify, construct and evaluate arguments
   
  • detect inconsistencies and common mistakes in reasoning
   
  • solve problems systematically
   
  • identify the relevance and importance of ideas
   
  • reflect on the justification of one's own beliefs and values
   
   

   Critical thinking is not a matter of accumulating information. A person with a good memory and who knows a lot of facts is not necessarily good at critical thinking. A critical thinker is able to deduce consequences from what he knows, and he knows how to make use of information to solve problems, and to seek relevant sources of information to inform himself.   

   

  Critical thinking should not be confused with being argumentative or being critical of other people. Although critical thinking skills can be used in exposing fallacies and bad reasoning, critical thinking can also play an important role in cooperative reasoning and constructive tasks. Critical thinking can help us acquire knowledge, improve our theories, and strengthen arguments. We can use critical thinking to enhance work processes and improve social institutions.

• Critical thinking includes a complex combination of skills.  Among the main characteristics are the following:

  Rationality
• Self-awareness
• Honesty
• Open-mindedness
• Discipline
• Judgment
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  • Critical thinkers are by nature skeptical. They approach texts with the same skepticism and suspicion as they approach spoken remarks.
  • Critical thinkers are active, not passive.  They ask  questions and analyze. They consciously apply tactics and strategies to uncover meaning or assure their understanding. 
  • Critical thinkers do not take an egotistical view of the world. They are open to new ideas and perspectives.  They are willing to challenge their beliefs and investigate competing evidence.
  Critical thinking enables us to recognize a wide range of subjective analyses of otherwise objective data, and to evaluate how well each analysis might meet our needs. Facts may be facts, but how we interpret them may vary.

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• Critical thinking is that mode of thinking — about any subject, content, or problem — in which the thinker improves the quality of his or her thinking by skillfully analyzing, assessing, and reconstructing it. Critical thinking is 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, as well as a commitment to overcome our native egocentrism and sociocentrism.

• 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 is when you use someone else's words or ideas and pass them off as your own. It's not allowed in school, college, or beyond, so it's a good idea to learn the proper way to use resources, such as websites, books, and magazines.

• 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.

   

    This definition applies to texts published in print or on-line, to manuscripts, and to the work of other student writers.

   

    Most current discussions of plagiarism fail to distinguish between:

   
   
  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.

• Digital rights, are rights given to each individual that is surfing the web. In addition to that the rights are always broken by hackers and other people that break the law. These hackers take advantage of technology and use it to hack into e-mails, credit card numbers, and get free subscriptions. the right are violated because the people on the other hand of the problem are suffering greatly because their card and rights of the people paying.
• Digital Rights & Responsibilities: those freedoms extended to every student, administrator, teacher, parent or community member. Just as in the American Constitution where there is a Bill of Rights, there is a basic set of rights extended to every digital citizen. Digital citizens have the right to privacy, free speech, etc.