Jami Shetler's List: DGL Vocabulary

• A digitally literate world is one in which everyone knows how their technology works, from the hardware to the software to the programming languages and all of the nuances. It’s a world in which technology is a tool, not a replacement, and is used to support and strengthen communities in both virtual and physical realms. Digital literacy is the skill that fosters high-level critical thinking and the exchange of information using technological form factors. It’s the skill that must constantly justify its form factor.

• • 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

• Computer Skills and Access Issues. 

  Having broadband access and knowing how to use the Internet enable full participation in society. 
• Issues of Authorship. 
• Digital literacy programs like YouMedia empower people with easy access to powerful tools of expression and communication using social media, images, language, music, sound, and interactivity.
• Issues of Representation.  
• Determining what’s more accurate or less accurate (or what a “quality” source is) is a judgment about issues of representation.
• Online social responsibility.

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• For me digital literacy involves reading widely, keeping informed, knowing when and how to be critical and when to embrace new information, new ideas. It also means how to approach new technologies – hardware and software – skeptically, fearlessly, and with enthusiasm. It means being limber in how one thinks, agile in using technology, expecting as normal seismic shifts in new information and communication tools.

• “the norms of appropriate, responsible behavior with regard to technology use.”  Basically, digital citizenship means using technology the right way.  In addition to the above definition, the website offers these elements:
   Digital Etiquette: electronic standards of conduct or procedure.
   Digital Communication: electronic exchange of information.
   Digital Literacy: process of teaching and learning about technology and the use of technology.
   Digital Access: full electronic participation in society.
   Digital Commerce: electronic buying and selling of goods.
   Digital Law: electronic responsibility for actions and deeds.
   Digital Health & Wellness: physical and psychological well-being in a digital technology world.
   Digital Security (self-protection): electronic precautions to guarantee safety.

• digital citizenship encompasses guidelines for appropriate, creative, and ethical behavior regarding how to utilize the vast electronic resources available to the international community linked by technology. 

• • Understanding how to use web browsers, search engines, email, text, wiki, blogs, Photoshop, Powerpoint, video creation/editing software , etc. to showcase learning.
  • Evaluating online resources for accuracy/trustworthiness of information.
  • Using online classes to enhance learning in the classroom.
  • Choosing appropriate media to showcase learning - understand what platforms will best illustrate your message and learning to peers and educators.
  • Using an interactive whiteboard in the classroom for lessons and allowing students to use the interactive whiteboard on a daily basis.
  • Encouraging students to use technology to showcase their learning.
  • Using the web ( web sites video, music) to enhance the learning of your students.
  • Students and teachers creating online content to be utilized both in and out of the classroom.

• “the self-monitored habits that sustain and improve the digital communities you enjoy or depend on.”

• 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.

• Your digital identity is made up of four categories of information / data:

   
   
  • Authentication elements: email address, user name, password, last name, first name, alias, IP address, etc.
   
  • Data: personal, administrative, occupational, banking, social data, etc.
   
  • Identifiers: photograph, logo, image, avatar, etc.
   
  • Digital traces: contributions to public content management systems such as Twitter, YouTube, Wikipedia, etc.

• "Digital identity refers to any digital representation (whole or partial)
  of an entity,
  in tangible or abstract form,
  either self-created,
  externally assigned
  or consequentially generated."

• Digital security is the protection of your digital identity - the network or Internet equivalent of your physical identity. Digital security includes the tools you use to secure your identity, assets and technology in the online and mobile world.

• Digital Security means to protect information. It deals with the prevention and detection of unauthorized actions by users of a computer.This definition by nature, implies the necessity to clearly understand the true value of an organizations proprietary information. It also means that all employees, managers and executives must understand how information might be compromised.

• Digital Security (self-protection):   electronic precautions to guarantee safety.
• 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.
  

• Critical thinking is the identification  and evaluation of evidence to guide  decision making. A critical thinker  uses broad in-depth analysis of evidence  to make decisions and communicate  his/her beliefs clearly and accurately.

• Critical thinking is defined as reasonable, reflective, responsible, and skillful thinking that is focused on deciding what to believe or do. Critical thinking is analytical thinking. This type of thinking takes problems apart radically and down to their roots, in order to solve the problems.
  

• Critical thinkers weigh the evidence and arguments.  Supporting data, logic and evidence increase the weight of an argument.  Contradictions and lack of evidence decrease the weight of an argument.  Critical thinkers do not accept propositions if they think there is more evidence against them or if the argument is unclear, omits significant information, or has false premises or poor logic.

• Critical thinking is the intellectually disciplined process of actively and skillfully conceptualizing, applying, analyzing, synthesizing, and/or evaluating information gathered from, or generated by, observation, experience, reflection, reasoning, or communication, as a guide to belief and action. In its exemplary form, it is based on universal intellectual values that transcend subject matter divisions: clarity, accuracy, precision, consistency, relevance, sound evidence, good reasons, depth, breadth, and fairness.
• Critical thinking can be seen as having two components: 1) a set of information and belief generating and processing skills, and 2) the habit, based on intellectual commitment, of using those skills to guide behavior. It is thus to be contrasted with: 1) the mere acquisition and retention of information alone, because it involves a particular way in which information is sought and treated; 2) the mere possession of a set of skills, because it involves the continual use of them; and 3) the mere use of those skills ("as an exercise") without acceptance of their results.

• Plagiarism means presenting   the words, phrases, ideas or work of another, including certain facts   and statistics, as if they were your own.

• Plagiarism is the use of another’s work, words, or ideas without attribution. The word “plagiarism” comes from the Latin word for “kidnapper” and is considered a form of theft, a breach of honesty in the academic community.