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Franchot Campbell's List: DGL Vocabulary
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Digital Literacy
The ability to comprehend and apply technology as it advances.
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Dec 03, 13
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; evaluating the quality and validity of information; and have a mature and realistic understanding of the "rules" that prevail in the cyberspace. This newly emerging concept of "digital literacy" may be utilized as a measure of the quality of learners’ work in digital environments, and provide scholars and developers with a more effective means of communication in designing better user-oriented environments.
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Nov 26, 13
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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
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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.
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Digital Citizenship
Active participation in an online community or communities.
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conscientious use of technology, demonstrates responsible use of information, and maintains a good attitude for learning with technology (ISTE, 2007).
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A personally responsible digital citizen may opt out of paper mail for electronic mailings, communicate respectfully on public discussion forums, and subscribe to information feeds about local volunteering events from Web 2.0 resources such as blogs or social networks. A participatory digital citizen might use a discussion forum to organize a local clothing drive or use an online social network to raise money for a local charity (Center for Social Media, 2004). A justice oriented digital citizen might start to a Web 2.0 resource such as a wiki or a public discussion forum that directly deals with social issues (Westheimer & Kahne, 2004). He or she might support a movement towards social justice by joining an appropriate online social network.
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Digital Identity
Your online persona. How you are viewed in a digital setting.
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Digital Law
Rules and guidelines established and geared towards any and every user that intends on using the web.
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"Digital Law is defined as the electronic responsibility for actions, deeds which is either ethical or unethical. Digital responsibility deals with the ethics of technology. Unethical use manifests itself in form of theft and/or crime. Ethical manifests itself in the form of abiding by the laws of society." It is basically about what you are and are not allowed to do while surfing and using the Internet
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Digital Native
An individual that has been raised around technology and can navigate almost effortless in the digital world.
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A digital native can be defined as a person who was born after the introduction of digital technology. Digital Natives use online services like Facebook, YouTube, Hulu, and Twitter on various digital technologies, such as smart phones or a tablet device. Digital Natives have blended their online life with their offline life.
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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.
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Digital Immigrant
A person who didn't grow up with technology, but instead took a liking to it later on in life.
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A digital immigrant is an individual who was born before the widespread adoption of digital technology. The term digital immigrant may also apply to individuals who were born after the spread of digital technology and who were not exposed to it at an early age. Digital immigrants are the opposite of digital natives, who have been interacting with technology from childhood.
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as "Digital Immigrants," technology users older than 30 who can use technology but in frameworks and ways that reveal their nondigital roots. Others have built from this theory. An article titled "Digital Denizens" from Richard Stockton College's (N.J.) Instructional Technology Resources (www.stockton.edu/~intech/spotlight-digital-denizens.htm) suggests additional categories, scaled by technology acceptance and facility.
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Wikis
A website that grants the ability to compose or edit the online content.
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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.
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