Katyrodriguuez_'s List: DGL Vocabulary

• The Digital Natives project focuses on the key legal, social, and political implications of a generation “born digital” – those who grow up immersed in digital technologies, for whom a life fully integrated with digital devices is the norm.
• a culture of connectivity, of public display, of sharing, of feedback, of constant availability and of global citizenship
• engages technology

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• All of them are “Digital Natives.” They were all born after 1980, when social digital technologies, such as Usenet and bulletin board systems, came online.
• They learned in digital the first time around; they only know a world that is digital.

• 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"

• Digital native" is a term for people born in the digital era, i.e., Generation X and younger. This group is also referred to as the "iGeneration" or is described as having been born with "digital DNA."
• Cannot relate to manuals - Solve problems "intuitively." As "intuitive learners" they are engaged in rapid 'trail and error' actions and prefer discovering via actions, experimentation and interaction rather than by reflection

• Digital law can be defined as the legal rights and restrictions governing technology use.
• what is appropriate or inappropriate technology use.

• "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." It is basically about what you are and are not allowed to do while surfing and using the Internet
  

• Digital Law relates to crimes of stealing or causing damage to other people’s work, identity, or digital property.  
   
  • Stealing someone's identity is called identity theft. (Covered in Section #7, Digital Security.)
   
  • Stealing someone's digital property can be intellectual property theft, digital piracy, or plagiarism.
   
  • Causing damage to others would be crimes such as hacking or creating and sending viruses.

• Students should care about their digital identity for a variety of reasons. As members of a campus community, it is important for students to know that their online actions can have impact. Student Conduct offices are no longer just concerned with what happens in the brick-and-mortar campus spaces. Additionally, most students are pursuing future careers, and higher education is their launch pad. Social media posts can show up in search engine queries. Companies are no longer just looking at your resume. They want to know what you are doing (and saying) online too.

• From the real-life notion of identity, we develop the concept of identity as used online. At its core is the idea that individuals can express their identity in digital format. However, a "digital identity" is typically a subset of the characteristics that define a person in the real world.^{Footnote 14} 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 15} It represents a particular persona when engaging in online activities, which can be accessed by electronic or technical means. Unlike real-life identity, digital identities can range from a simple username/password combination unrelated to any specific  attribute or characteristic of the person to one that relies on sensitive and personally identifiable information from official credentials.

• The one we have the most control over is our social digital identity, the information we share with others primarily via the internet.
• Our social digital identity could cover information from our Facebook, MySpace and Twitter accounts – almost exclusively social sites intended to keep us in touch with friends and family. It may also include information from our business networking sites like LinkedIn, Business Networking International (BNI), or Power Circle Network (PCN).

• Digital citizenship helps teachers, parents and students learn how to handle technology appropriately and how to act while online.

• While a decision has yet to be made about the devices themselves, Oftedahl said changes to occur during the 2014-15 school year include the overlay of technology into the curriculum as a tool for learning and additional instruction for teachers on how to effectively use technology in and outside the classroom to encourage what Oftedahl referred to as digital citizenship.

• 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.

• That software and others help students coordinate class projects and activities in a sort-of ‘private’ social network. Traditional social networks, like Facebook and Twitter, although not used in class curricula, are subjects taught in a digital citizenship class.

      

        

  “It’s part of the freshman class English course,” library media specialist Lindsey Myers said, “and it’s to prepare them for responsible representation of themselves and how to behave in online and digital platforms.”

• Traditional definitions of literacy have focused on skills relating to numeracy, listening, speaking, reading, writing and critical thinking, with the end goal being developing active thinkers and learners who are able to engage in society in effective and meaningful ways.^[4] These skills are needed for full participation in digital society as well, but they are only part of a larger set of skills and competencies that are required.

  Competencies for digital literacy can be classified according to three main principles: Use, Understand and Create.

• “Nine in 10 jobs that we’re creating right now require some form of digital literacy, even if they’re not in computer science related fields,” said Carol Smith, manager of Google’s Summer of Code open source programs. “Coding is the next step—literacy is the basic understanding of how to interact with a computer, how to interact with applications on that computer, how to make it do what you want.”

• CITY CENTRE — Years ago, tackling literacy issues had much to do with picking up a book and learning to make sense of the words on the page. In the age where social media and digital text are the primary ways of getting information, it’s more pertinent than ever to be digitally literate — that is, learn how to use a computer and the internet.

• Digital literacy, or the ability to find, evaluate, utilize, share, and carry out digital action such as sending emails and browsing the Internet, can help lower brain aging and dementia or memory loss in later years.

• Digital literacy is a basic skill for the 21^st century much like reading, writing, and math. It is about being able to use a computer, but it is also about having the skills to use technology on multiple platforms.

• the digital immigrants (people born before the advent of digital technology)
• digital immigrants are goal oriented as opposed to the value orientation of the digital natives.
• Digital immigrants may have invented the technologies that digital natives use but didn't accurately anticipate how they would use them.

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