Dominique Huskey's List: DGL Vocabulary

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

The American Philosophical Association has defined critical thinking as "the process of purposeful, self-regulatory judgment. The process gives reasoned consideration to evidence, contexts, conceptualizations, methods, and criteria" (1990). Critical thinking is sometimes broadly defined as "thinking about thinking."

Digital Rights and Responsibilities:  The privileges all digital technology users have and the expected behaviors that go along with those privileges.  

Digital citizens have "digital rights" just as U.S. citizens have Consititutional rights, such as the constitutional right to privacy and to free speech. These rights, however, come with responsibilities and expectations that you will behave and use technology appropriately. Topics included under Digital Rights and Responsibilities include:

 
 
• 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 technology.
 
• 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

It is important to know about and understand your basic digital rights and the responsibilities that come with them in order for technology to be used in an appropriate and productive way. Just as American citizens have rights defined by the U.S. Constitution, digital citizens also have basic rights and responsibilities. Many of these rights and responsibilities are already covered in the other eight elements of Digital Citizenship but the concept is important enough to stand alone as a separate element. Digital Rights and Responsibilities defines the overall rights, responsibilities, freedoms, privileges and behavior expectations in using technology.

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. 

Social collaboration refers to processes that help multiple people interact, share information to achieve any common goal. Such processes find their 'natural' environment on the internet, where collaboration and social dissemination of information are made easier by current innovations.

Sharing concepts on a digital collaboration environment often facilitates a "brainstorming" process, where new concepts may emerge due to the contributions of individuals, professional or otherwise. A crucial concept behind social collaboration is that 'ideas are everywhere.' Individuals are able to share their ideas, as it is not limited to professionals, but rather the general public who wishes to become involved.

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digital identity

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.