Elements:
Digital Access
Digital Commerce
Digital Communication
Digital Literacy
Digital Etiquette
Digital Law
Digital Rights and Responsibilities
Digital Health and Wellness
Digital Security
Digital Literacy
Digital Literacy is the ability to find, evaluate, interpret, and create information on the internet.
Digital Citizenship
Digital citizenship is using digital technology appropriately, responsibly, and safely. It also involves understanding the benefits and risks of digital technology, and knowing how to use it to an advantage.
Elements:
Digital Access
Digital Commerce
Digital Communication
Digital Literacy
Digital Etiquette
Digital Law
Digital Rights and Responsibilities
Digital Health and Wellness
Digital Security
Digital Identity
Digital identity is the online data that describes a person or organization, and can include username, date of birth, purchase history, etc.
Digital Security
Digital security is protecting yourself (your digital identity), assets, and technology on the internet. Tools for this include antivirus, and firewalls to block spyware, and secure personal devices, like the SIM card in your phone.
Critical Thinking
Critical thinking is the process of decision making by analyzing, conceptualizing, synthesizing, or evaluating information gathered from experience, observation, reasoning, and communication.
Copyright
Copyright is the legal right to a work, like a book, music, piece of art, etc. basically saying it is yours and giving you the right to be credited for it, to publish, distribute, sell it.
Plagiarism
Plagiarism is the use of another person's words, ideas, theories, etc. without quoting and/or citing the resource, whether this use is intentional or not. You can still be charged with plagiarism even if it was unintentional.
In other words, plagiarism is an act of fraud. It involves both stealing someone else's work and lying about it afterward.
To avoid plagiarism, you must give credit whenever you use
Digital Rights and Responsibilities
Digital rights and responsibilities are kind of like a code of conduct to be followed by digital citizens, as well as privileges extended to them. Responsibilities include following copyright laws and not plagiarizing, reporting threats, and refraining from pirating copyrighted material.
Collaborative Media
Collaborative media is media such as documents and websites that allow multiple people to contribute to and design them.
Collaborative media refers to the medium in which a collaboration takes place. For instance a word document or wiki in the case of coauthoring, vocalisations, body language, auditory and visual perceptions in face-to-face collaborations, or a mix of many media as in the case of the production of a play.
A collaborative medium provides a substrate for information exchange and in doing so, becomes an environment to which the participants are constantly responding and adapting to in relation to their collaborative contributions and the changing qualities of the evironment itself.
Privacy
Privacy is keeping companies, organizations, websites, from selling or otherwise distributing your information about yourself and your online habits.
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Vocabulary for Digital Literacy
Updated on Feb 08, 13
Created on Feb 04, 13
Category: Computers & Internet
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