• he definition of literacy has evolved in the 21st century. The basic definition of literacy means to be able to read and write. 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. The University Library of The University of Illinois defines digital literacy as:

   
   
  •   The 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. ³

  • Digital Literacy for the 21st Century

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  • • 21st Century Digital Literacy

• The ability to locate, organize, understand, evaluate, and analyze information using digital technology. It involves a working knowledge of current high-technology, and an understanding of how it can be used. Digitally literate people can communicate and work more efficiently, especially with those who possess the same knowledge and skills.

   

  Research around digital literacy is concerned with wider aspects associated with learning how to effectively find, use, summarize, evaluate, create, and communicate information while using digital technologies, not just being literate at using a computer.

   

  Digital literacy encompasses computer hardware, software (particularly those used most frequently by businesses), the Internet, cell phones, PDAs, and other digital devices. A person using these skills to interact with society may be called a digital citizen.

• 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.

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• 1. Etiquette: electronic standards of conduct or procedure
   2. Communication: electronic ex- change of information
   3. Education: the process of teaching and learning about technology and the use of technology
   4. Access: full electronic participation in society
   5. Commerce: electronic buying and selling of goods
   6. Responsibility: electronic responsi- bility for actions and deeds
   7. Rights: those freedoms extended to everyone in a digital world
   8. Safety: physical well-being in a digital technology world
   9. Security (self-protection): electronic precautions to guarantee safety

• Which begs the question: what is digital citizenship?

   

  Well, first citizenship, which is formally defined as “the quality of an individual’s response to membership in a community.” This makes citizenship far more complex than a simple legal matter, but rather one that consists of self-knowledge, interaction, and intimate knowledge of a place, its people, and its cultural history.

   

  So digital citizenship is nearly the same thing–”the quality of a response to membership in a digital community” would be a good first crack at the definition.

   

  Revising that might more clearly articulate the differences between physical and digital communities, so a decent definition of digital citizenship then might be “Self-monitored participation that reflects conscious interdependence with all (visible and less visible) community members”

• a person that participates in society using a certain amount of information technology (it). to qualify for the unofficial title of digital citizen a person must have the skill and knowledge to interact with private and organizations through means of "digital" tools such as computers or mobile phones, along with access to these devices. people characterizing themselves as digital citizens often use it extensively, creating blogs, use social networking and other means of modern communication.

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• Definition - What does   Digital Identity mean?

   

  A digital identity is an online or networked identity adopted or claimed in cyberspace by an individual, organization or electronic device. These users may also project more than one digital identity through multiple communities. In terms of digital identity management, key areas of concern are security and privacy.

• Digital identity

   

  Digital identity is all the online information and data specifically about an individual.

   

  Digital identity is made up of elements that fall into four categories (source: Lionel Maurel / Fadhila Brahimi):

   
   
  • Authentication elements: identification number, IP address, email address, user name, password, last name, first name, alias, etc.
   
  • Data: personal, administrative, banking, occupational, social data, etc.
   
  • Identifiers: photograph, avatar, logo, image, etc.
   
  • Digital traces: contributions to blogs and other content management systems, links, etc.
   
   

  “Managing your digital identity” means monitoring the use of these elements.

  • Online information about an individual

• Digital identity is a concept 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.

   

  A critical problem in cyberspace is knowing with whom you are interacting. In essence, the problem is that "on the Internet, nobody knows you're a dog." Currently there are no ways to precisely determine the identity of a person in digital space. Even though there are attributes associated to a person's digital identity, these attributes or even identities can be changed, masked or dumped and new ones created. Despite the fact that there are many authentication systems and digital identifiers that try to address these problems, there is still a need for a unified and verified identification system in cyberspace.^{[2][not in citation given]} Thus, there are issues of privacy and security related to digital identity.

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  • Digital Identity - Wikipedia Definition

• Attributes, preferences and traits [edit]

   

  Every Digital Identity has zero or more identity attributes. Attributes are acquired and contain information about a subject, such as medical history, purchasing behaviour, bank balance, age and so on.^[1] Preferences retain a subject's choices such as favourite brand of shoes, preferred currency. Traits are features of the subject that are inherent, such as eye colour, nationality, place of birth. While attributes of a subject can change easily, traits change slowly, if at all.

  • Attributes, Preferences and Traits - Digital Identity

• The full definition of Digital Security (self-protection) is: taking necessary precautions to guarantee electronic digital safety. Any digital product can be hacked and stolen, hence the hacker or the theif may and can get personal information of the digital product; comprimising you since amoug the things they can steal is your credit card number, or even your social security number (only in the US). In any society, there are individuals who steal, deface, or disrupt other people. The same is true for the digital community. It is not enough to trust other members in the community for our own safety. In our own homes, we put locks on our doors and fire alarms in our houses to provide some level of protection. The same must be true for the digital security. We need to have virus protection, backups of data, and surge control of our equipment. As responsible citizens, we must protect our information from outside forces that might cause disruption or harm.
   
   Digital Security is simply about being secure about everthing that is electronic. For example, when you begin to learn about computers and the internet, you are taught to not reveal any personal information, like your full name and contact numbers. Then, on a later stage, you are taught about anti-virus software; and how it works.

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  • Digital Security Definition
• Malware is software designed to infiltrate and damage a computer system without the owner's knowledge. Malware can destroy files on a hard disk, corrupt the file system by writing junk data, send e-mail spam or ping a server, let viruses into the system unchecked, among many, many other things.
   Spyware is software that has been designed to monitor users' web browsing and/or display unwanted advertisements. Spyware can gather information about computer users, showing them numerous, annoying and bogus pop-ups, and install a key logger (which records all of a users' keystrokes, therefore uncovering credit card passwords, and so forth) and alter web browser behaviour, also among other things. Remedies for spy- and malware include security software that can handle various aspects of security. Examples include Norton and McAfee who produce software specializing in certain security aspects like viruses, but they also produce software that covers viruses, malware, spyware, bugs, worms, internet intrusions (possibly by hackers), etc..

• Digital citizenship can be defined as the norms of appropriate, responsible behavior with regard to technology use.

  • Nine Themes of Digital Citizenship
• 1.   Digital Access:   full electronic participation in society.
   Technology users need to be aware that not everyone has the same opportunities when it comes to technology.  Working toward equal digital rights and supporting electronic access is the starting point of Digital Citizenship. Digital exclusion makes it difficult to grow as a society increasingly using these tools. Helping to provide and expand access to technology should be goal of all digital citizens.  Users need to keep in mind that there are some that may have limited access, so other resources may need to be provided.  To become productive citizens, we need to be committed to make sure that no one is denied digital access.
• • Digital Citizenship - Nine Elements
• 9.   Digital Security (self-protection):   electronic precautions to guarantee safety.
   In any society, there are individuals who steal, deface, or disrupt other people. The same is true for the digital community. It is not enough to trust other members in the community for our own safety. In our own homes, we put locks on our doors and fire alarms in our houses to provide some level of protection. The same must be true for the digital security. We need to have virus protection, backups of data, and surge control of our equipment. As responsible citizens, we must protect our information from outside forces that might cause disruption or harm.

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  Critical thinking is reflective reasoning about beliefs and actions.^[1][2] 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 formal education and is increasingly significant as students progress through university to graduate education, although there is debate among educators about its precise meaning and scope.

• Critical thinking is a rich concept that has been developing throughout the past 2500 years.  The term "critical thinking" has its roots in the mid-late 20th century.  We offer here overlapping definitions, together which form a substantive, transdisciplinary conception of critical thinking.

  • Defining Critical Thinking

• Critical thinking is the ability to gather and assess information and evidence in a balanced and reflective way to reach conclusions that are justified by reasoned argument based on the available evidence. Critical thinking is a key skill in the information age, valuable in all disciplines and professions.

  • Analysis, evaluation and judgement stemming from beliefs and experience.

  • Critcal Thinking definition

• 3. Plagiarism. 

   Plagiarism is defined as presenting someone else's work, including the work of other students, as one's own. Any ideas or materials taken from another source for either written or oral use must be fully acknowledged, unless the information is common knowledge. What is considered "common knowledge" may differ from course to course.

   

    a. A student must not adopt or reproduce ideas, opinions, theories, formulas, graphics, or pictures of another person without acknowledgment.

   

  b. A student must give credit to the originality of others and acknowledge an indebtedness whenever:

   

   

   1. Directly quoting another person's actual words, whether oral or written;

   

  2. Using another person's ideas, opinions, or theories;

   

  3. Paraphrasing the words, ideas, opinions, or theories of others, whether oral or written;

   

  4. Borrowing facts, statistics, or illustrative material; or

   

  5. Offering materials assembled or collected by others in the form of projects or collections without acknowledgment. 

• Plagiarism, believe it or not, comes from a Latin verb that means,   “to kidnap.” If you plagiarize you’re kidnapping   and stealing others’ hard work and intellectual property.   It is academic and public dishonesty. You wouldn’t want someone   stealing your hard work, intentionally or even unintentionally,   would you? Of course not.

• Digital rights and responsibilities are the privileges and freedom extended to all digital users. Don’t do plagiarism, copy right, download music, telivision shows and movies that are for free. Plagiarism is copying from a sight and handing it in etc. and naming it as your own. In higher grades like 11 and 12th sometimes it leads to getting kicked out of universities where the matter would be more serious. Also, you might not get in your ‘dream college’ or you may not get a scholarship.

   
   What is a Digital Right and Responsibility?
   
   A digital right and responsibility are the freedoms to extend to everybody in the digital world. In 1789 the bill of rights was written and just like the bill of rights there is a set of digital rights. Digital citizens have the freedom to speech, privacy, ect. Basic digital rights MUST be addressed, discussed and understood in the digital world. Also along with the rights are a series of responsibilities. People in the digital world have to help define how the technology should be used in the right way. In a digital community these two digital areas must come together to make a great society.

  • Digital Rights and Responsiblities

• As with the constitution, giving it's citizens fundamental rights, so it is with the "Internet", we have basic fundamental rights. Along with these rights come responsibility. As an individuals, we all understand what the "Golden Rule" is. Although there hasn't been an "official Bill of Rights document produced. These are the rights as of now:
   
   1. Digital citizens have the right to information. Under the freedom of information Act, each individual is able to locate information, via the common forum, the internet.
   
   2. Right to Transparency. This means that digital citizens have the right to have access and be informed of any governmental meeting, decision, or any public hearing. This is to insure that the general public is notified of anything that has potential to affect their rights as citizens under the 1st amendment. In other words, no information can be hidden or concealed from citizens regarding government actions.
   
   3. Right to Privacy: Citizens have the right to prevent external sources from disseminating or making public, private information that identifies specific citizens.
   
   4. Right to Access: Digital Citizens have the right to universal access to sites and services, via the internet through public supported agencies such as libraries, electronic technologies, i.e., email, social networks, etc., irrespective of age, gender, race, income, or disability.
   
   5. Right to Assemble: Digital Citizens have the right to join online communities and forums without constraint and the right to privacy in online memberships.
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   6. Right to Freedom of Expression: Digital Citizens have the right to free and uncensored personal communication.