Basic definition of what Digital Literacy is.
Brandy Billings's List: DGL Vocabulary
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Blogging
Blogging is the act of posting what you want to say or posting a picture on a website. Many people of all different ages blog and some websites have made it very easy to blog.
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Viral Videos
Viral videos are popular videos online that catch peoples attention and are passed around to others. They are usually funny and they can be unintentional or intentional.
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Copyright
A copyright is what you use to protect your intellectual property. Things that can be copyrighted include books, websites, art as well as other things.
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Databases
A database is where data is stored in a computer that is easily accessible to the user. It can hold many different types of data and it keeps it all separate and organized.
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Moral Literacy
Moral Literacy is understanding how to do the right thing.
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Academic Integrity
Academic Integrity means to be honest with your work and too not cheat or use plagiarism in your submitted assignments.
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Collaboration
Collaboration is working with other people to achieve something or to complete a task.
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Privacy
Internet privacy is the ability to control who knows what about you. It is the right to choose who obtains access to your personal information.
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Malware
Malware, otherwise known as Malicious software is programs that are designed to damage computer systems. They come in the form of trojans, spyware, rootkits, keyloggers, spyware and viruses. All are meant to harm other programs on a system.
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Geo-technology (Geo-data)
Geo-technology is basically computerized geographical data.
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Netiquette
Netiquette is how polite you are online to the people that you interact with. Using things such as all caps is considered rude since many people see it as a form of shouting over the internet. To have good Netiquette you also need to check your spelling, not send emails at night, always be nice to the people you interact with and never "flame".
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Disinformation
Disinformation is basically false information. It is information that is intentionally put out for the public to see in order to mislead them.
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Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs)
MOOC's are online courses that are free and open to the public. They are not accredited and are more meant for self driven people who want to learn something specific and do not care about whether or not they get a degree for learning it.
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Wikis
A wiki is a website that allows users to change the information on the website. Some wikis are simple and you can only change the text and links, while other wikis are more advanced and you can change not only the text but the images as well.
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Digital Immigrant
Digital immigrants are people who were born before the technology was really a big part of life. They often find using technology difficult because they never had to as they were growing up.
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Digital Native
Digital natives are people who were raised around technology. They understand it and can easily adapt to new technology. Digital natives use technology every day and many of them would rather be below the poverty level than go a day without their technology.
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Digital Law
Digital law is the basic rules of the internet. Hacking into peoples things, pirating music and videos is all against digital law. Using information and claiming it as your own is also against digital law and there are punishments for breaking these rules.
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Digital Identity
Your digital identity is who you are on the internet. It is created the moment that you make and email, join a website or buy something through the internet. Your digital identity grows the more that you use the internet. However a digital identity is not a secure identity, it can easily be stolen, used without permission and changed over time.
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Digital Citizenship
Digital Citezenship refers to someone who uses the internet often and without much difficulty. A digital citizen is someone who understands how to use information found on the internet accordingly.
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Digital Literacy
Digital Literacy is the ability to effectively use and create content found on the internet.
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May 12, 13
A definition of Digital Literacy from University Library.
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The ability to use digital technology, communication tools or networks to locate, evaluate, use and create information. 1
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- 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
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The basic definition of literacy means to be able to read and write.
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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.
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Wikipedia's definition of Digital Literacy.
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"to recognize and use that power, to manipulate and transform digital media, to distribute pervasively, and to easily adapt them to new forms"
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igital literacy is the ability to effectively and critically navigate, evaluate and create information using a range of digital technologies.
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Several basic descriptions including; digital citizenship, digital literacy, and digital law.
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Digital citizenship can be defined as the norms of appropriate, responsible behavior with regard to technology use.
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Digital Literacy: process of teaching and learning about technology and the use of technology.
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Wikipedia definition of Digital Citizenship and what skills are required to become a "qualified digital citizen". It also contains information on when a person becomes a digital citizen as well as information about the digital divide.
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A digital citizen commonly refers to a person utilizing information technology
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"those who use the Internet regularly and effectively."
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This page contains a list of behaviors that help define what a digital citizen is. It also has a useful video that is worth watching to help better understand.
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...can be defined as the norms of behavior with regard to technology use
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(Ribble, et. al, 2004, p. 7).
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Has the same basic definition that almost every other page uses to define a digital citizen. This page however includes the differences of what parent worries about and what a teen worries about when it comes to being a digital citizen.
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Digital citizenship is usually defined as the "norms of behavior with regard to technology use."
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It encompasses digital literacy, ethics, etiquette, online safety, norms, rights, culture and more.
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There is no way to accurately create a digital identity as it can easily be stolen or changed over time.
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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.
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The social identity that an internet user establishes through digital identities in cyberspace is referred to as online identity.
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Your digital identity is created the moment that you create an email account, from there everything you do in the digital world continues to build and create your digital identity.
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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.
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Like its human counterpart, a digital identity is comprised of characteristics, or data attributes
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Your digital identity is who you are online.
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Digital identity can be defined as all the online information and data specifically about an individual.
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Your digital identity is made up of four categories of information / data
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Digital law is the ethical responsibility of all people using the internet.
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"Digital Law is defined as the electronic responsibility for actions, deeds which is either ethical or unethical. Digital responsibility deals with the ethics of technology. Unethical use manifests itself in form of theft and/or crime. Ethical manifests itself in the form of abiding by the laws of society."
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It is basically about what you are and are not allowed to do while surfing and using the Internet
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Hacking into peoples things, pirating music and videos is all against digital law.
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Digital law is any type of thing that someone does online that is against the law, such as identity theft, illegal music downloading, etc.
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Digital law is basically the rules of what you should not do on the internet.
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Digital Law is defined as the electronic responsibility for actions, deeds which is either ethical or unethical.
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Ethical use of the Internet means being a law-abiding Digital Citizen. Unethical use of the Internet involves committing theft and/or crime. It’s important for you to understand that stealing or causing damage to other people’s work, identity, or property online is a crime.
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Digital natives are people who were raised using digital interaction. They have a better understanding of how to use technology to their advantage.
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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 understanding of its concepts.
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Other discourse identifies a digital native as a person who understands the value of digital technology and uses this to seek out opportunities for implementing it with a view to make an impact.
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Digital Natives are people who are familiar with the use of computers and other technologies.
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A digital natives are the teenagers of the world today, they grew up with technology and the adapt to technology changes easier than those who did not grow up with technology in their lives.
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Digital Natives are people who have grown up in the digital world using technology as a way to communicate, record, educate, and understand society.
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Today's tweens and teens are digital natives as they have had access to computers, cell phones, email, and other forms of technology since birth. Digital Natives speak the language of technology and are as comfortable with technology as past generations have been with pen and paper.
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Digital natives are people who were born in an era that has technology and that technology is always changing. Digital natives would rather be under the poverty line than give up their technology.
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The digital native-immigrant concept describes the generational switchover where people are defined by the technological culture which they're familiar with.
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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.
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A digital immigrant is an individual who was born before the widespread adoption of digital technology.
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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.
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Digital Literacy Definitions
Updated on May 12, 13
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