Kateclodfelter's List: DGL Vocabulary

• What is Digital Literacy?

   

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

• • 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 
   
   

• concept which helps teachers, technology leaders and parents to understand what students/children/technology users should know to use technology appropriately.
• t is a way to prepare students/technology users for a society full of technology.
• Too often we are seeing students as well as adults misusing and abusing technology but not sure what to do. The issue is more than what the users do not know but what is considered appropriate technology usage.
• how should we act when we are online, and what should be taught to the next generation.

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• digital citizen is one who knows what is right and wrong, exhibits intelligent technology behavior, and makes good choices when using technology.

• • Video- Safe, secure, ethical use of the Internet. Rights and responsibilities online, ability to represent their values. Model good practice of the Internet for other users. User that make valuable contributions and make others think in ways they never have before. Secure practices. Ask permission, Strong password.

• Digital identity refers to the ways and means that identity is created and perceived in the digital world, i.e., online. It includes unique descriptive data, as well as information about relationships.
• There are many websites for which an individual creates a username and password and — upon returning to that site at a later date — one confirms one’s identity by re-entering them.

• A digital identity is the result of digital codification of characteristics and attributes in a way that is suitable for processing by computer systems.^Footnote
• It represents a particular persona when engaging in online activities, which can be accessed by electronic or technical means.
• an individual may have more than one valid digital identity, the characteristics of which may vary according to the context^{Footnote 16}, application, or service in which it is used.
• igital identity in order to access online services that rely on official credentials (e.g., passport, driver's licence), and another completely different digital identity for online social communities
• it changes over time and typically needs to be updated.
• digital identity
• digital identities are not necessarily unique, static or permanent.

• …an identity developed in the online environment that can be accessed, used, stored, transferred or processed by means of electronic or computer devices or systems.

   

    

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• Our digital identity, or tattoo, is the permanent collection of data about us that is available online.  Each time we post a picture, a blog, a status or a tweet, we are adding to that digital identity.
• As more online applications become part of our daily lives, our digital identities become increasingly more detailed.

• we transform ourselves into digital iden-tities in the information age. Digital identities are who we say we are, when weare online.
• subtype of a public persona, an extension of our ‘true’selves, or they can be completely fabricated and fantastical, to function as a mask to hide the identity of an Internet user from rest of the world.
• share and perform to an open or closed audience.
• online identities and online communities are part of a virtual real-ity;

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• • Not being a responsible digital citizen
• Digital law can be defined as the legal rights and restrictions governing technology use.
• breaking the law, either knowing or not knowing, what is appropriate or inappropriate technology use
• download music without paying for it.
• illegal file sharing sites, pirating software, creating viruses, hacking into systems or networks, stealing someones identity, and copyright infringement.

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• Digital Law deals with society’s behaviour with using technology.
• • "The legal rights and restrictions governing technology use"
• Some examples of what digital law deals with are plagiarism, illegal downloading of music, hacking and creating worms or viruses. Plagiarism is the most common thing that teenagers usually do.

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• Digital Law relates to crimes of stealing or causing damage to other people’s work, identity, or digital property.

• he rules of the internet.
• These are specific responsibilities of being safe online.
• Most of the laws deal with matters of ethics, but some also deal with outright criminal intents.

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• igital Natives are the generation born during or after the general introduction of digital technology.
• While individuals from elder generations recall organizing, planning and interacting with one another without mobile devices, computers or the Internet, Digital Natives have been using these technologies since their early years.
• Digital Natives have an inherent understanding of digital technologies, as they’ve been integrated into their lives since early childhood. They are part of a tech-savvy generation at the forefront of technological progress and want to be connected when they wish, from anywhere.
• the first generation of Digital Natives is entering the working world – and transforming it at a fast pace.
• Technology has been integrated into the lives of Digital Natives since early childhood, providing them with the skills to naturally adapt to it from a young age.
• developed an innate understanding of digital and computer technologies, which have
• evolved into essential parts of their daily lives.

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• those who grow up immersed in digital technologies, for whom a life fully integrated with digital devices is the norm.
• we investigate how the culture of digital natives – a culture of connectivity, of public display, of sharing, of feedback, of constant availability and of global citizenship – impacts and will continue to impact our world.

• In contrast, those not born in the digital world   reveal their non-native status through a "digital immigrant accent"   that manifests itself in a number of ways—printing out a digital document to edit it rather than editing it online, for example (Prensky, 2001a, p. 4).

• Digital Immigrant is the latecomer in the technology revolution and as with any immigrant, there is a certain “accent” that is readily apparent to the native speakers.
• going to the library before searching the Internet.
• One major difference between Natives and Immigrants is the way we process information.
• To Digital Immigrants, cell phones, emails, and the Internet are just tools that can be used to reach someone or set up a “real” face-to-face meeting. Natives look at the same technologies and see an extension of who they are.

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• Wikis are websites that allow you to create and edit any number of interlinked web pages. They're used for collaborative work that can be created and changed online.
• wikis are open to multiple authors working in tandem.
• They are recommended for creating, managing, and tracking group projects and activities and building idea and resource exchanges. Wikis—and Wikipedia certainly is the most prominent and largest example—can be limited to only a few contributors or open to unlimited participants.

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• a website that allows collaborative editing of its content and structure by its users"
• The important part of wikis—what makes them different from any other type of website—is collaborative editing by the users.
• From that short summary we can pull out some of the main themes of wikis: composing, discussing, hyperlinking, collaborating, communicating.

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• ny visitor become a participant:  you can create or edit the actual site contents without any special technical knowledge or tools. All you need is a computer with an Internet connection.
• continuously “under revision.”