Jessenia Colon's List: DGL Vocabulary

• Digital literacy is the ability to find, evaluate, utilize, share, and create content using information technologies and the Internet.
• Digital literacy is an important topic because technology is changing faster than society is.
• Look here to learn about Cornell’s recommendations for finding, evaluating, and citing information sources online; to learn about copyright law; to read and hear Cornell faculty viewpoints on plagiarism; and to get our best advice regarding privacy practices on the Internet.

  • Cornell also explains the importance of including references with your work to avoid plagiarizing someone else work.

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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.

  • At the NYC Dept of Education site digital literacy is further explained as a means to collect information and then share such information with others.

• There is no universally agreed definition of digital literacy.

  • Wiki takes a different approach when defining the term "digital literacy".  Instead of just suggesting that people be respectful of the original creators of found knowledge and giving them their due credit; Wiki explains the foundation of such literacy.  Being literate was different many years ago; back then people only need read the words.  Now times have changed and the mere existence of language and its understanding are far from enough to explore the available information at our fingertips.
• Digital literacy is distinct from computer literacy and digital skills.
• Digital literacy differs from both of these terms in that it relates to knowledge, skills, attitudes and behaviours in the use of a broad range of digital devices such as wearables, smartphones, tablets, laptops and desktop PCs, all of which are seen as network (rather than computing) devices.
• A digitally literate person will possess a range of digital skills, knowledge of the basic principles of computing devices, skills in using computer networks, an ability to engage in online communities and social networks while adhering to behavioural protocols, be able to find, capture and evaluate information, an understanding of the societal issues raised by digital technologies (such as big data), and possess critical thinking skills.
• Digital literacy researchers explore a wide variety of topics, including how people find, use, summarize, evaluate, create, and communicate information while using digital technologies. Research also encompasses a variety of hardware platforms, such as computer hardware, cell phones and other mobile devices and software or applications, including web search or Internet applications more broadly.

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• Digital Citizenship is a concept which helps teachers, technology leaders and parents to understand what students/children/technology users should know to use technology appropriately. Digital Citizenship is more than just a teaching tool; it is a way to prepare students/technology users for a society full of technology. Digital citizenship is the norms of appropriate, responsible technology use.

  • Digital Citizenship is explained to be the standards that digital literacy is taught by.
• The issue is more than what the users do not know but what is considered appropriate technology usage.
• The topic of digital citizenship is certainly gaining momentum not only in the United States but around the world. Whether it is called digital citizenship, digital wellness or digital ethics the issues are the same; how should we act when we are online, and what should be taught to the next generation.
• In response to many discussions with users from around the world some new ideas have surfaced on how to discuss the nine elements of digital citizenship.

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• Digital Access:

  • This is an elaboration of the 9 elements of digital citizenship 
• Digital Commerce:  
• Digital Communication:
• Digital Literacy:
• Digital Etiquette:
• Digital Law:
• Digital Rights & Responsibilities:
• Digital Health & Wellness:
• Digital Security (self-protection):

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• A digital citizen refers to a person utilizing/using information technology (IT) in order to engage in society, politics, and government participation. K. Mossberger, et al.^[1] define digital citizens as "those who use the Internet regularly and effectively.

  • Wiki describes a digital citizen as the person capably of using the technology necessary to explore the date available to our fingertips.
• a person generally must have extensive skills, knowledge, and access of using the Internet through computers, mobile phones, and web-ready devices to interact with private and public organizations

• Digital identity is the data that uniquely describes a person or a thing and contains information about the subject's relationships.^[1]

  • Wiki defines digital identity as "data that uniquely describes a person or a thing".  It further explains that digital identity can be "changed, masked or dumped and new ones created"; so you never really know who you're communicating with one the world wide web.
• A critical problem in cyberspace is knowing with whom one is interacting. 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.
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  Digital Identity may also be referred to as a Digital Subject or Digital entity and is The digital representation of a set of Claims made by one Party about itself or another person, group, thing or concept.^[3]

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  digital identity is an online or networked identity adopted or claimed in cyberspace by an individual, organization or electronic device.

• a digital identity is comprised of characteristics, or data attributes, such as the following:

  • Username and password
  • Online search activities, like electronic transactions
  • Date of birth
  • Social security number
  • Medical history
  • Purchasing history or behavior
  A digital identity is linked to one or more digital identifiers, like an email address, URL or domain name

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• Digital identity is the data that uniquely describes a person or a thing and contains information about the subject's relationships.
• Currently there are no ways to precisely determine the identity of a person in digital space.

  • Ask.com elaborates that digital identity is difficult to determine.

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• "Digital Law is defined as the electronic responsibility for actions, deeds which is either ethical or unethical.

  • Digital Law is explained as the electronic responsibility for actions.

• Digital law is identified as the responsibility of being safe online and following online rules. It is basically know as the law of internet.

  • Here Digital Law is explained to be "the responsibility of being safe online and following online rules".  

• A digital native is a person who was born during or after the general introduction of digital technologies and through interacting with digital technology from an early age, has a greater comfort level using it.

  • Wiki describes a digital native as someone who was born and raised with technology.
• The opposite of digital native is digital immigrant, an individual who was born before the existence of digital technology and adopted it to some extent later in life.

  • Wiki describes digital immigrant plainly by saying it is the opposite of digital native.
• Due to the obvious divide set between digital natives and digital immigrants, sometimes both generations are forced to meet which commonly results in conflicting ideologies of digital technology
• This creates conflicts among older supervisors and managers with the increasingly younger workforce. Similarly, parents clash with their children at home over gaming, texting, YouTube, Facebook and other Internet technology issues.

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• A digital immigrant is an individual who was born before the widespread adoption of digital technology. The term digital immigrant may also apply to individuals who were born after the spread of digital technology and who were not exposed to it at an early age. Digital immigrants are the opposite of digital natives, who have been interacting with technology from childhood.

  • Here digital immigrants are also explained to be individuals who were not exposed to technology.

• is a web application which allows people to add, modify, or delete content in collaboration with others
• A wiki

  • Wiki describes a wiki as "a web application which allow people to add, modify, or delete content.  It is further explained that this content "is created without any defined owner or leader".
• the content is created without any defined owner or leader, and wikis have little implicit structure, allowing structure to emerge according to the needs of the users.^[2]

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  wiki allows a group of people to enter and communally edit bits of text.

  • HowStuffWorks elaborates that wikis are public content and that some people question their validity.

• A massive open online course
• is an online course aimed at unlimited participation and open access via the web. In addition to traditional course materials such as videos, readings, and problem sets, MOOCs provide interactive user forums that help build a community for students, professors, and teaching assistants

• A massive open online course (MOOC) is a model for delivering learning content online to any person who wants to take a course, with no limit on attendance.

  • Another explanation of MOOC

• Disinformation is intentionally false or inaccurate information that is spread deliberately. It is an act of deception and false statements to convince someone of untruth. Disinformation should not be confused with misinformation, information that is unintentionally false.

  • Wiki describes this term as "intentionally false or inaccurate information that is spread deliberately".

• false information intended to deceive or mislead

  • Dictionary.com also describes this term as false info.

• the rules of etiquette that apply when communicating over computer networks, especially the Internet.

  • This term is described simply as internet etiquette.
• the informal code of behaviour on the internet