Kingery2011's List: DGL Vocabulary

• 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.

• • 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

• 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.

• “the quality of an individual’s response to membership in a community.”
• “the self-monitored habits that sustain and improve the digital communities you enjoy or depend on.”

• Digital citizenship can be defined as the norms of appropriate, responsible behavior with regard to technology use. 

• Digital identity is all the online information and data specifically about an individual.

   

  Digital identity is made up of elements that fall into four categories (source: Lionel Maurel / Fadhila Brahimi):

   
   
  • Authentication elements: identification number, IP address, email address, user name, password, last name, first name, alias, etc.
   
  • Data: personal, administrative, banking, occupational, social data, etc.
   
  • Identifiers: photograph, avatar, logo, image, etc.
   
  • Digital traces: contributions to blogs and other content management systems, links, etc.
   
   

  “Managing your digital identity” means monitoring the use of these elements.

• 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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  Techopedia explains Digital Identity
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  Like its human counterpart, 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. Because identity theft is rampant on the Web, digital identity authentication and validation measures are critical to ensuring Web and network infrastructure security in the public and private sectors.

• Digital identity refers to the aspect of digital technology that is concerned with the mediation of people's experience of their own identity and the identity of other people and things. Digital identity also has another common usage as the digital representation of a set of claims made by one digital subject about itself or another digital subject.
• Digital identity is the online representation of an individual within a community, as adopted by that individual and/or projected by others.  An individual may have multiple digital identities in multiple communities.

• The convenience of digital technology offers a wide array of benefits and risks. Educators, parents, and students should understand both the positive and negative potential of digital devices in order to take full advantage of the technology.

• "Are you who you say you are?" and "Is my data safe with you?"

   

  Digital Security means answering those questions with solutions that  protect and enhance assets and interactions.

• disciplined thinking that is clear, rational, open-minded, and informed by evidence:

• Critical thinking is that mode of thinking — about any subject, content, or problem — in which the thinker improves the quality of his or her thinking by skillfully analyzing, assessing, and reconstructing it. Critical thinking is self-directed, self-disciplined, self-monitored, and self-corrective thinking. It presupposes assent to rigorous standards of excellence and mindful command of their use. It entails effective communication and problem-solving abilities, as well as a commitment to overcome our native egocentrism and sociocentrism.

• Critical thinking is the intellectually disciplined process of actively and skillfully conceptualizing, applying, analyzing, synthesizing, and/or evaluating information gathered from, or generated by, observation, experience, reflection, reasoning, or communication, as a guide to belief and action. In its exemplary form, it is based on universal intellectual values that transcend subject matter divisions: clarity, accuracy, precision, consistency, relevance, sound evidence, good reasons, depth, breadth, and fairness.

• author's work as one's own, as by not crediting the
• original author: It is said that he plagiarized Thoreau's plagiarism of a line written by Montaigne.
• Synonyms:
• appropriation, infringement, piracy, counterfeiting; theft, borrowing, cribbing, passing off.

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• Plagiarism is defined as presenting someone else's work, including the work of other students, as one's own. Any ideas or materials taken from another source for either written or oral use must be fully acknowledged, unless the information is common knowledge. What is considered "common knowledge" may differ from course to course.

• In instructional settings, plagiarism is a multifaceted and ethically complex problem. However, if any definition of plagiarism is to be helpful to administrators, faculty, and students, it needs to be as simple and direct as possible within the context for which it is intended.

   

    Definition: In an instructional setting, plagiarism occurs when a writer deliberately uses someone else’s language, ideas, or other original (not common-knowledge) material without acknowledg­ing its source.

   

• The definition of digital rights and responsibilities is having the right and freedom to use all types of digital technology while using the technology in an acceptable and appropriate manner. As a user of digital technology, you also have the right to privacy and the freedom of personal expression.

• Digital Rights and Responsibilities are the "privileges and freedom extended to all digital technology users, and the behavioral expectations that come with them" (Ribble & Bailey, 2007). In other words, your students have the privilege and freedom to engage in technology use during school as well as at home. However, there are expectations that accompany the privileges and freedom to use technology. Students must act responsibly as they participate in the digital world.