Jonathan Lewis's List: DGL Vocabulary List

• The ability to use digital technology, communication tools or networks to locate, evaluate, use and create information.

• ability to find, evaluate, utilize, share, and create content using information technologies and the Internet.

• Digital Citizenship is a principle that helps users understand how to utilize technology in an appropriate way. 

   

  In today's society, knowing and understanding Digital Citizenship is now more important than ever. That's why the students of Web 2.0 at Burlington High have made this site: to help you understand digital citizenship. 

   

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

• the sum of all the digitally available information about us

• Identity is a unique piece of information associated with an entity. Identity itself is simply a collection of characteristics which are either inherent or are assigned by another. The color of a person's hair and whether or not another thinks he is attractive is part of a person's identity.

• Digital security is the protection of your digital identity

• protection of a computer's internet account and files from intrusion by an outside user

• 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.

  
  

   

• disciplined thinking that is clear, rational, open-minded, and informed by evidence: The questions are intended to develop your critical thinking.

• Copyright refers to laws that regulate the use of the work of a creator, such as an artist or author. This includes copying, distributing, altering and displaying creative, literary and other types of work. Unless otherwise stated in a contract, the author or creator of a work retains the copyright

• the exclusive legal right to reproduce, publish, sell, or distribute the matter and form of something (as a literary, musical, or artistic work)

• Copyright is the ownership of an intellectual property within the limits prescribed by a particular nation's or international law

• “the deliberate or reckless representation of another’s words, thoughts, or ideas as one’s own without attribution in connection with submission of academic work, whether graded or otherwise.”

• afforded certain rights
• must agree to live according to the parameters that are mutually agreed upon
• Rights and responsibilities are sometimes difficult to define. There can be rights in a society only if there are also responsibilities. Users need to know the difference between what is possible for the individual and what should be done for the good of the group."
• Using online material ethically, including citing sources and requesting permissions
   - Reporting cyberbullies, threats, and other inappropriate use
   - Following Responsible Use policies and using technology responsibly both inside and outside school

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• Rights and responsibilities is a key area of internet safety, with out it you leave your self upon to many different online attacks from fraud, to online bullying. The three main areas of rights and responsibilities are AUP, Use online material ethically, Report cyberbullies and threats.