• Although digital citizenship potentially begins when any child, teen, and/or adult signs up for an email address, posts pictures online, uses e-commerce to buy merchandise online, and/or participates in any electronic function that is B2C or B2B, the process of becoming a digital citizen goes beyond simple Internet activity.

• Digital literacy is the ability to effectively and critically navigate, evaluate and create information using a range of digital technologies. It requires one "to recognize and use that power, to manipulate and transform digital media, to distribute pervasively, and to easily adapt them to new forms".^[1] Digital literacy does not replace traditional forms of literacy, it builds upon the foundation of traditional forms of literacy.^[2

• Digital identity is a psychological identity that prevails in the domains of cyberspace, and is defined as a set of data that uniquely describes a person or a thing (sometimes referred to as subject or entity) and contains information about the subject's relationships to other entities.^[1] The social identity that an internet user establishes through digital identities in cyberspace is referred to as online identity.

• Digital security is a type of information security affecting all aspects of digital communication, including computers and the internet, telecommunications, financial transactions, transportation, healthcare, and secure access

• Critical thinking is a type of reasonable, reflective thinking that is aimed at deciding what to believe or what to do.^[1] It is a way of deciding whether a claim is always true, sometimes true, partly true, or false. Critical thinking can be traced in Western thought to the Socratic method of Ancient Greece and in the East, to the Buddhist kalama sutta and Abhidharma. Critical thinking is an important component of most professions. It is a part of the formal education process and is increasingly significant as students progress through university to graduate education, although there is debate among educators about its precise meaning and scope.^[2]

• Copyright is a legal concept, enacted by most governments, giving the creator of an original work exclusive rights to it, usually for a limited time. Generally, it is "the right to copy", but also gives the copyright holder the right to be credited for the work, to determine who may adapt the work to other forms, who may perform the work, who may financially benefit from it, and other related rights. It is a form of intellectual property (like the patent, the trademark, and the trade secret) applicable to any expressible form of an idea or information that is substantive and discrete.^{[clarification needed][1]}

• Plagiarism is defined in dictionaries as the "wrongful appropriation," "close imitation," or "purloining and publication" of another author's "language, thoughts, ideas, or expressions," and the representation of them as one's own original work,^[1][2]

• The term digital rights describes the human rights that allow individuals to access, use, create, and publish digital media or to access and use computers, other electronic devices, or communications networks. The term is particularly related to the protection and realization of existing rights, such as the right to privacy or freedom of expression, in the context of new digital technologies, especially the Internet.^[1]

• Collaborative media refers to the medium in which a collaboration takes place. For instance a word document or wiki in the case of coauthoring, vocalisations, body language, auditory and visual perceptions in face-to-face collaborations, or a mix of many media as in the case of the production of a play.

• Privacy is the ability of an individual or group to seclude themselves or information about themselves and thereby reveal themselves selectively. The boundaries and content of what is considered private differ among cultures and individuals, but share basic common themes. Privacy is sometimes related to anonymity, the wish to remain unnoticed or unidentified in the public realm. When something is private to a person, it usually means there is something within them that is considered inherently special or personally sensitive. The degree to which private information is exposed therefore depends on how the public will receive this information, which differs between places and over time. Privacy partially intersects security, including for instance the concepts of appropriate use, as well as protection of information. Privacy may also take the form of bodily integrity.

• What is social literacy?

   
     
  What is social literacy?
   
   
  • The ability to make “socially productive decisions” (Arthur, et al)
   
  • Successful interpersonal cooperation
   
  • Collaboration and appropriate interactions
   
  • Familiarity with cultural norms
   
   
  Why is social literacy important?
   
   
  • Provides opportunity for increased confidence in becoming and active citizen
   
  • Compliments the students’ cognitive development
   
  • Familiarity with cultural customs
   
  • Expanding social circles
   
  • For some students with special needs, social skills must be explicitly taught

• Disinformation is intentionally false or inaccurate information that is spread deliberately. For this reason, it is synonymous with and sometimes called black propaganda. It is an act of deception and false statements to convince someone of untruth. Disinformation should not be confused with misinformation, information that is unintentionally false.

• What is Independent Learning?
• “Independent Learning is learning that is self-directed. The learning is defined, organised and completed by the learner. Educators (experts) may act as facilitators or guides. However, the learner is encouraged to plot their own path and to value their own research as well as input from peers on the same level as information and guidance that they may gain from teachers (experts).”

• Ethics, also known as moral philosophy, is a branch of philosophy that involves systematizing, defending, and recommending concepts of right and wrong conduct.^[1] The term comes from the Greek word ethos, which means "character". Ethics is a complement to Aesthetics in the philosophy field of Axiology. In philosophy, ethics studies the moral behavior in humans, and how one should act. Ethics may be divided into four major areas of study:^[1]
• • Meta-ethics, about the theoretical meaning and reference of moral propositions and how their truth values (if any) may be determined;
   
  • Normative ethics, about the practical means of determining a moral course of action;
   
  • Applied ethics, about how moral outcomes can be achieved in specific situations;
   
  • Descriptive ethics, also known as comparative ethics, is the study of people's beliefs about morality

• Academic integrity
• Academic integrity is the moral code or ethical policy of academia. This includes values such as avoidance of cheating or plagiarism; maintenance of academic standards; honesty and rigor in research and academic publishing.^[1]

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• A blog (a portmanteau of the term web log)^[1] is a discussion or informational site published on the World Wide Web and consisting of discrete entries ("posts") typically displayed in reverse chronological order (the most recent post appears first). Until 2009 blogs were usually the work of a single individual, occasionally of a small group, and often were themed on a single subject. More recently "multi-author blogs" (MABs) have developed, with posts written by large numbers of authors and professionally edited. MABs from newspapers, other media outlets, universities, think tanks, interest groups and similar institutions account for an increasing quantity of blog traffic. The rise of Twitter and other "microblogging" systems helps integrate MABs and single-author blogs into societal newstreams. Blog can also be used as a verb, meaning to maintain or add content to a blog.

• What Is Social Networking?
• Social Networking. . . It's the way the 21st century communicates today. Want to know what it really means?
• Social networking is the grouping of individuals into specific groups, like small rural communities or a neighborhood subdivision, if you will.  Although social networking is possible in person, especially in the workplace, universities, and high schools, it is most popular online

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• Viral video
• A viral video is a video that becomes popular through the process of Internet sharing, typically through video sharing websites, social media and email.^[1] Viral videos often contain humorous content and include televised comedy sketches, such as The Lonely Island's "Lazy Sunday" and "Dick in a Box", Numa Numa^[2][3] videos, The Evolution of Dance,^[4]
• on YouTube;
• and web-only productions such as I Got a Crush... on Obama.^[6] Some eyewitness events have also been caught on video and have "gone viral"^[7] such as the Battle at Kruger.^[8] More recently the video by Invisible Children, Inc. named Kony 2012 became the most viral video in history^[9] with over 34,000,000 views on the first day of its upload on 5 March, 2012^[10] and it had been viewed more than 94,000,000 times as of 25 November 2012.

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  This article is about the type of website. For other uses, see Wiki (disambiguation).

   
• Not to be confused with Wikipedia.

   

  "Edit summary" redirects here. For edit summaries as used in Wikipedia, see Help:Edit summary.

   

  "WikiNode" redirects
• here. For the WikiNode of Wikipedia, see Wikipedia:WikiNode.

• dd, modify, or delete its content via a web browser usually using a simplified markup language or a rich-text editor.^[1][2][3] Wikis are powered by wiki software. Most are created collaboratively.

   

  Wikis serve many different purposes, such as knowledge management and notetaking. Wikis can be community websites and intranets, for example. Some permit control over different functions (levels of access). For example, editing rights may permit changing, adding or removing material. Others may

• permit access without enforcing access control. Other rules may also be imposed for organizing content.

   

  Ward Cunningham, the developer of the first wiki software, WikiWikiWeb, originally described it as "the simplest online database that could possibly work."^[4] "Wiki" (pronounced [ˈwiti] or [ˈviti]) is a Hawaiian word meaning "fast" or "quick".^[5][6]

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  1.	meme	3574 up, 1013 down
  	(noun)     1 : an idea, belief or belief system, or pattern of behavior that spreads throughout a culture either vertically by cultural inheritance (as by parents to children) or horizontally by cultural acquisition (as by peers, information media, and entertainment media)
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• 2 : a pervasive thought or thought pattern that replicates itself via cultural means; a parasitic code, a virus of the mind especially contagious to children and the impressionable
• 3 : the fundamental unit of information, analogous to the gene in emerging evolutionary theory of culture  
  - meme pool (n.) : all memes of a culture or individual  
  - memetic (adj.) : relating to memes  
  - memetics (n.) : the study of memes
• 4 : in blogspeak, an idea that is spread from blog to blog  
   
  5 : an internet information generator, especially of random or contentless information  
   
  (Etymology : meme : derived from the Greek mimëma, 'something imitated', by Richard Dawkins in 1976)

  Santa Claus is a more persistent meme than weasel frosting.

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