Juan Mata Wong's List: DGL Vocabulary

• The digital native-immigrant concept describes the generational switchover where people are defined by the technological culture which they're familiar with.
• Prensky defines digital natives as those born into an innate "new culture" while the digital immigrants are old-world settlers, who have lived in the analogue age and immigrated to the digital world.

• Social semiotics is thus the study of the social dimensions of meaning, and of the power of human processes of signification and interpretation (known as semiosis) in shaping individuals and societies. Social semiotics focuses on social meaning-making practices of all types, whether visual, verbal or aural in nature (Thibault, 1991). These different systems for meaning-making, or possible "channels" (e.g. speech, writing, images) are known as semiotic modes. Semiotic modes can include visual, verbal, written, gestural and musical resources for communication. They also include various "multimodal" ensembles of any of these modes (Kress and van Leeuwen, 2001).

• The aim of this overview is to highlight and the implications of social change in relation to learning pedagogies and the implications on literacy in its broadest sense. From here we will explore popular media in relation to the recognised changing needs of education while also taking into considerations the sociological implications to include political and economical considerations.
• Technology, culture and society is rapidly developing and education systems/schools of today appear to be opposed to this change.
• Multimodal – The term used to describe the way literacy can be taught multiple ways

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• Multimodality is an inter-disciplinary approach that understands communication and representation to be more than about language.
• multimodality assumes that representation and communication always draw on a multiplicity of modes, all of which contribute to meaning
• multimodality assumes that resources are socially shaped over time to become meaning making resources that articulate the (social, individual/affective) meanings demanded by the requirements of different communities.
• people orchestrate meaning through their selection and configuration of modes, foregrounding the significance of the interaction between modes.
• Four core concepts are common across multimodal research: mode, semiotic resource, modal affordance and inter-semiotic relations.

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• An Internet meme is an activity, concept, catchphrase or piece of media that gains popularity and spreads rapidly via the Internet.
• The term meme comes from "The Selfish Gene" by the evolutionary biologist, Richard Dawkins. He used it to describe a non-DNA based evolutionary unit that was transmitted through group culture, such as the spread of tool making among hominids.

• an idea, behavior, style, or usage that spreads from person to person within a culture

• A meme is a concept or behavior that spreads from person to person. Examples of memes include beliefs, fashions, stories, and phrases.

• A wiki is a Web site that allows users to add and update content on the site using their own Web browser.
• The term "wiki" comes from the Hawaiian phrase, "wiki wiki," which means "super fast."

• Wiki is a piece of server software that allows users to freely create and edit Web page content using any Web browser. Wiki supports hyperlinks and has a simple text syntax for creating new pages and crosslinks between internal pages on the fly.

• Wikis get their name from the Hawaiian term "wiki wiki," which means quickly. Wikis are quick ways for collaborative creation and editing of documents.

• The use of internet-based social media programs to make connections with friends, family, classmates, customers and clients.

• Social networking is the practice of expanding the number of one's business and/or social contacts by making connections through individuals.

• Academic Integrity is honest and responsible scholarship.  As a student, you are expected to submit original work and give credit to other peoples' ideas.  Maintaining your academic integrity involves:

   
   
  • Creating and expressing your own ideas in course work;
   
  • Acknowledging all sources of information;
   
  • Completing assignments independently or acknowledging collaboration;
   
  • Accurately reporting results when conducting your own research or with respect to labs;
   
  • Honesty during examinations.

• Academic Integrity can be defined by honest academic work where (1) the ideas and the writing of others are properly cited; (2) students submit their own work for tests and assignments without unauthorized assistance; (3) students do not provide unauthorized assistance to others; and (4) students report their research or accomplishments accurately.

• Academic integrity means honesty and responsibility in scholarship. Students and faculty alike must obey rules of honest scholarship, which means that all academic work should result from an individual's own efforts. Intellectual contributions from others must be consistently and responsibly acknowledged. Academic work completed in any other way is fraudulent.  
• Plagiarism is using others' ideas and/or words without clearly acknowledging the source of that information. It may be intentional (e.g., copying or purchasing papers from an online source) or unintentional (e.g., failing to give credit for an author's ideas that you have paraphrased or summarized in your own words).

• Ethics, also known as moral philosophy, is a branch of philosophy that involves systematizing, defending and recommending concepts of right and wrong conduct.
• "a set of concepts and principles that guide us in determining what behavior helps or harms sentient creatures"
• rational, optimal (regarded as the best solution of the given options) and appropriate decision brought on the basis of common sense. This does not exclude the possibility of destruction if it is necessary and if it does not take place as the result of intentional malice.

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• many people tend to equate ethics   with their feelings. But being ethical is clearly not a matter of following   one's feelings. A person following his or her feelings may recoil from   doing what is right. In fact, feelings frequently deviate from what is   ethical.
• Nor should one identify ethics with religion.
• Being ethical is also not the same as following the law.
• Finally, being ethical is not the same as doing "whatever society accepts."
• Ethics is two things. First, ethics refers to   well-founded standards of right and wrong that prescribe what humans ought   to do, usually in terms of rights, obligations, benefits to society, fairness,   or specific virtues.
• Ethical standards also include those that   enjoin virtues of honesty, compassion, and loyalty. And, ethical standards   include standards relating to rights, such as the right to life, the right   to freedom from injury, and the right to privacy.
• Secondly, ethics refers to the study and development of one's ethical   standards.

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