Ignatius Rigaskara's List: Digital Literacy - Vocabulary

• What is Digital Literacy?

   

    Digital literacy is the ability to find, evaluate, utilize, share, and create content using information

  technologies and the

  Internet.
• Consider how easy it is to cut, paste, share, rip, burn, and post media—at home and in the classroom.
• These activities seem as though they must be legal and appropriate, because they’re so easy to perform.
• Digital literacy is an important topic because technology is changing faster than society is.

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• To be successful in today's digital world, literacy goes far beyond being able to read and write.
• What it means to be digitally literate has reflected the change in how information is processed, delivered, and received in today's highly connected world.
• 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. ³
• media literacy is seen to consist of a series of communication competencies, including the ability to ACCESS, ANALYZE, EVALUATE, and COMMUNICATE information in a variety of forms, including print and non-print messages.
• US Digital Literacy believes best practice for all schools is to provide funding for an Instructional Technologist in every school to facilitate digital and media literacy instruction for all children and all teachers and staff. Systems that do not make such a provision are not truly embracing 21st century education in their schools.

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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.
• Skillful use of a range of technology is essential for success after high school-as newly graduated young adults continue their education, enter the workforce, or juggle school and employment

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• The issue

   

  As 90% of new jobs will require excellent digital skills, improving digital literacy (by which we mean those capabilities essential for living, learning and working in a digital society) is a key component for developing effective and employable learners

• How technology can help

   

  Courses that embed core digital skills, as well as subject-specific use of technology, enable students to gain the skills and confidence they need to use digital technology not only to support their learning but also in the workplace.
• Colleges and universities can help to develop students' digital literacy to help with academic research, writing and critical thinking, supporting vocational and professional development or as a way to showcase achievements.
• In order to plan improvements, it is helpful to review current provision and processes, highlighting good practice and identifying areas for future development.

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• ) Digital Literacy Promotes Higher-Order Thought Skills

• 2) Digital Literacy Breaks Down the “Walls” of Learning and Information

   

  The traditional pen-and-pencil system presents tons of barriers to student access and connection, whether it be the plight of a master narrative, language disconnect, etc. By instilling adept digital skills, students can break through these “walls” and become ‘producers’ of knowledge.
• 3) Digital Literacy Prepares Students for a Digital Post K-12 World
• Whether it be working with Microsoft Office, understanding the nuances of a Windows/Mac operating system, or even the simple use of a mouse and keyboard, it’s vital for students to be ready to roll when sat down in front of a digital device. In today's climate, gaining familiarity with digital device functions and features is now just as important as learning to read and write. 

• Don’t Be Afraid to Learn Some New Tricks

   

  We could go on-and-on about great reasons to add focus towards student digital literacy.

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• What is Blogging?

   

  Blogging is the act of posting content on a blog (a Web log or online journal) or posting comments on someone else's blog.
• Blogging is very popular today because it allows people to interact with each other.
• Additionally, blog content can be delivered automatically via electronic RSS (Really Simple Syndication) data feeds. Visitors subscribe to a blog's feeds in order to stay up to date with content that's being posted on subjects that interest them.
• Finally, blogging doesn't require that writers and contributors know a lot about HTML (Web page code). If a blogger or visitor can fill in an online form, they can blog and post comments on other blogs.

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• Before you start a blog, it's important to determine if blogging is right for you to ensure your blogging experience will be successful.

• You Enjoy Spending Time Surfing the Web

  Successful blogging requires a large time commitment and a great deal of sweat equity. Blogging doesn't stop after you write and publish a blog post. Instead, it requires promotion, visiting and reading other blogs and websites, staying abreast of news and issues related to your blog topic, and more. Most of your blogging activities will occur online.

• You Like to Write

  If you abhor writing or writing doesn't come naturally to you, then blogging might not be for you. Building a successful blog requires frequent, meaningful updates, responding to comments, leaving comments on other blogs and more.

• You're Passionate About Your Blog's Topic

  Successful blogging requires that the blogger write frequent, meaningful posts about their blog's topic to attract new readers, keep readers interested and keep readers coming back.

• You're Comfortable Publicizing Your Thoughts, Opinions and Ideas

  As a blogger, you will be publishing your opinions for the entire online community to read.

• You're Not Afraid of Technology and You Are Willing to Learn

  Blogging requires some knowledge of the Internet and simple software.

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• Blogging Can Supercharge Your Home Business
• Blogging can provide a great forum for a small or home business owner to discuss their products, services or industry in a straightforward, easy-to-understand manner.
• Blogging offers small business owners a very accessible promotional tool
• Blogging opens the door for small business owners to directly engage clients, customers or readers.
• This is a fantastic way to develop rapport and most especially credibility.
• The key in really making a blog work for a home-based business is to work at it earnestly and add to it on a consistent basis.
• Regularly updated blogs with lots of activity tend to attract far more search engine than those that aren't updated
• And, if you are willing to commit your own time and you’re even a half-decent writer, bogging doesn’t have to cost anything. As a means of promoting your home business, it doesn't get much better than that.

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• For a long time, we believed that “online was different,” and that we didn’t need to accept any of the normal rules of business.
• We’d put something on the web and Magic Internet Dust would come along and make up for our total absence of business knowledge.
• “Leap, and the net will appear,” was the mantra.

• That sort of worked for awhile, but it doesn’t work now. If you don’t have a solid understanding of who your market is, how they’ll find you, and what problems you solve for them, it’s now “Leap, and the floor will appear.”

   

• So focus on what does work now, and has always worked.

   
• Provide value. Solve actual problems. Uncover what’s bugging people and fix it for them.

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• Volunteer your blogging services to large blogs with many followers. Blogging for a website or for another blog that receives a lot of traffic will help your name and writing skills become more recognizable and well-known.
• Send inquiries about blogging positions to major blogs.
• Apply for blogging positions on freelance job websites. There are a variety of websites dedicated solely to open freelance writing positions, such as ProBlogger and FreelanceSwitch.
• Use your blogging network to seek referrals

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• Collaboration is a working practice whereby individuals work together to a common purpose to achieve business benefit.
• Collaboration, at the conceptual level, involves:
• Awareness - We become part of a working entity with a shared purpose
• Motivation - We drive to gain consensus in problem solving or development
• Self-synchronization - We decide as individuals when things need to happen
• Participation - We participate in collaboration and we expect others to participate
• Mediation - We negotiate and we collaborate together and find a middle point
• Reflection - We think and we consider alternatives
• Engagement - We proactively engage rather than wait and see

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• “collaboration” is defined as something you do with another colleague or company to achieve greatness
• lots of collaboration still happens here for one main reason: to serve the customer the best product or service.
• With collaboration, one plus one can often turn out to be four
• “I will always work with you — if I know we’ll get to four. You can’t build great products alone. And if everyone understood that you can’t build great government alone our country would be in a different place.”

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• Collaboration is a joint effort of multiple individuals or work groups to accomplish a task or project.
• Collaboration may be asynchronous ,
• in contrast, collaboration may be synchronous (this is known as real-time collaboration)
• in which collaborative partners are working together simultaneously and in communication as they work.

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• Getting employees to work together in a joint intellectual effort is achieved nowadays by using tools that allow teams to share information dynamically between one another to boost performance and productivity.
• Another definition of collaboration is co-operation with an enemy - a case in point for the need for good security in a collaborative business environment.

• The providers of collaboration tools bandy about buzz­words such as empowering people, easing communications and boosting productivity.

   
• With people's growing desire to share stuff and be heard and with boundaries of work and play blurring by the day, we will highlight opportunities, link to benefits and tag dead-ends to help you make sense of this whirlwind of change.

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• “To the extent that creativity is about the recombination of existing ideas, then combining ideas that haven't been connected before creates the potential to produce something new and useful”
• Learning to work with people from other cultures in order to collaborate creatively is a vital skill in today's business environment
• There's no doubt that the confluence of diverse cultures can create opportunities for innovation
• For those who don't have a culturally diverse network already, he recommends consciously seeking out new cultural experiences.
• “You want to deeply involve yourself in cross-cultural interactions”

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• In real life, most people are fairly law-abiding, either by disposition or because we're afraid of getting caught. In cyberspace, the chances of getting caught sometimes seem slim.
• And, perhaps because people sometimes forget that there's a human being on the other side of the computer
• One more point on Netiquette ethics: If you use shareware, pay for it.
• Paying for shareware encourages more people to write shareware. The few dollars probably won't mean much to you, and they benefit all of cyberspace in the long run.
• If you're tempted to do something that's illegal in cyberspace, chances are it's also bad Netiquette.

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• Communicating clearly on the Internet 
• Be clear
• Use appropriate language
• Don't use   ALL CAPITAL LETTERS--it's equal to shouting or screaming
• Be brief
• Make a good impression
• Do not send SPAM
• Don't respond to "flames" or personal attacks

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• We expect other drivers to observe the rules of the road. The same is true as we travel through cyberspace.
• That's where netiquette, a term allegedly coined from either network etiquette or Internet etiquette comes in handy.
• When you talk with someone, the tone and inflections of your voice convey great meaning.
• Keep your written communications focused.
• Remember that comments you post to a blog, newsgroup, forum or website and write during a public chat session is a publicly available.

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• Include context.
• Check, then click. Before you post a comment, double check that you are saying exactly what you want to say.
• Do you get it? Jokes, dark humour and sarcasm are often difficult to convey over the internet.
• Allow others to express themselves
• Respect people’s privacy
• Avoid conflict.

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• Include a subject line.
• Avoid sarcasm
• Use appropriate language
• Use appropriate intensifiers to help convey meaning

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