Latosha Cooper's List: 1.5 Exploring Digital Literacy

• the ability to use information and communication technologies to find, evaluate, create, and communicate information requiring both cognitive and technical skills.

• Digital literacy includes learning how to find, sort, evaluate, manage, and create information in digital forms.

• Many parents grew up doing research that required going to a library, writing down call numbers, finding books, and then taking notes on the needed information. Now, some students can write their biology paper with research conducted on their cell phone, and most students can access university libraries through the internet, and download entire articles to their laptops for later reading.

   

  This amazing access doesn’t just apply to academic information, the internet allows incredible access and sharing of music, photos, videos, and all kinds of art. With this amazing access, comes the necessity for ethical and critical information interaction–a skill as important as learning to read and write.

• Digital literacy is the ability to find, evaluate, utilize, share, and create content using information technologies and the Internet.
• Digital literacy is an important topic because technology is changing faster than society is. The same advances that enhance leisure and make our work easier—those that make it possible for us to search online databases, text friends, and stream media—also present urgent challenges to the social norms, market models, and legal frameworks that structure our society. The rules of appropriate behavior in these digital contexts may be unknown or unknowable. Well-established concepts such as copyright, academic integrity, and privacy are now difficult to define, as their meanings are in flux.
• • The world is changing more and more everyday as the digital world becomes more popular. Banks are mostly digital, schools are adapting more into a digital world, and so many other business and services are being offered dealing with digital technology. This section briefly goes over the changes in society affected by digital literacy.

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• The concept of digital citizenship is premised on encouraging and developing learning opportunities for youth to develop their online proficiency, engagement and creativity, rather than focusing exclusively on the ways in which digital media can be used detrimentally. A microscopic focus on the negative aspects of digital communication usage among youth ignores the potential benefits of digital media, and the possibility for youth to engage in socially responsible digital behaviour.
• Digital citizenship also involves “legal literacy,” that is, an understanding of where the law defines the line between joking, teasing, or harmless actions and criminal behaviour.
• • This paragraph talks about the article, "Digital Natives, Digital Immigrants" by Marc Prensky  quoting that the current generation is classified as digital natives.  A term used to explain the fact that they were born after the rise of technology and can relate to technology better rather than relate to text-book form philosophies.
• • This section touches briefly on cyberbyllying and fostering leadership towards social responsibility and digital citizenship.

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• • This section of the article explains characteristics of digital citizenship and how to be safe and responsible while accessing the digital world.
• Part of digital citizenship is learning to author and share on the web responsibility. In order to give her students this experience, one of our contemporary issues teachers enhanced a final project focusing on research, to include Blogs where students could form grassroots campaigns around their researched issue. Students receive authentic feedback from a larger audience as well as learn to provide responsible and valid information.

• • Here is a list of some of the key competencies and values of a digital citizen from a company called NetSAfe in New Zealand.
• • Definition of digital citizenship noted here in this article. It states that a person who uses the internet regularly to engage in society, politics, and government participatio.

• 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.
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  igital 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.
• within a community, as adopted by that individual and/or projected by others.  An individual may have multiple digital identities in multiple communities.
• • This section states a piece of the opening quote of an article from Cole Concepts to further understand identity.

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• 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. That is, it defines a thing both in and of itself and in relationship to other things. Both a person and a company can have a digital identity and while a person always has a concrete identity in the world,
• • one confirms their identity by visiting the sites that they are registered to,

• Digital identity is the network or Internet equivalent to the real identity of a person or entity (like a business or government agency) when used for identification in connections or transactions from PCs, cell phones or other personal devices
• • Security usually requires someone to validate the identity. Passwords protect the authentication process.

•  In a regular society the laws clearly define the type of actions that are considered as crime and their relevant punishment as well. The crimes and their punishments are designed in order to rehabilitate criminals and allow them to reenter the society.
• Therefore, Digital Law would be better defined as " The legal rights and restrictions governing technology use" (Ribble & Bailey, 2007, p. 28).
• The written laws are the documents that clarify what types of actions are acceptable and what types are not in the society. Accordingly, every person is responsible for their actions under the written laws. Regarding the digital law however, people are responsible for their electronic actions such as software pirating, hacking into people or organizations’ private information, downloading music or movies illegally, and creating viruses or Trojan horses (Digital Citizenship in Education, n.d.).

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

• They are tech savvy, at the forefront of technological progress, and want to be connected - whenever they like, wherever they are. Digital natives are the generation born around the arrival of digital technology. They have used digital technologies since early childhood, naturally developing the skills to integrate them in their lives.
• • This site shows the benefits of digital natives in the workplace. It points out key results from research conducted that shows most natives have to re-organize their lives to participate in a society that leaves their well known digital life behind.

• Through qualitative research, legal analysis, and collaboration with educators, 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 particular, we focus on the influence upon institutions of education and government, while also extending inquiry to impacts on business, relationships, and mental health. Our research informs our mission to provide recommendations to educators and legislators for reforms that make the most of the exciting possibilities young people’s digital fluency presents, supports youth in navigating the difficult issues, and ultimately engages technology in ways that strengthen our social institutions.

• A digital immigrant is an individual who was born before the widespread adoption of digital technology. 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.
• Digital immigrants are believed to be less quick to pick up new technologies than digital natives.
• • This site explains that a digital immigrant is one who is not familiar with digital technologies. It also explains the different classifications between the native and the immigrant.  

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• Chances are you are a “digital immigrant,” one who was not born bathed in bits, who played video games as a toddler or learned keyboarding in third grade.
• • This article refers t digital immigrants as people who were not introduced to the digital technology age as a child.This site gives insight and details on how to help the immigrant migrate in to the new digital age. 

• What differentiates a wiki from a blog is the fact that multiple people can -- and usually do in the case of popular wikis -- work on a single piece of content. This means that a single article could have as few as a single author or as many as tens or even hundreds of authors.

• A wiki (sometimes spelled "Wiki") is a server program that allows users to collaborate in forming the content of a Web site. With a wiki, any user can edit the site content, including other users' contributions, using a regular Web browser. Basically, a wiki Web site operates on a principle of collaborative trust.
• A wiki (sometimes spelled "Wiki") is a server program that allows users to collaborate in forming the content of a Web site. With a wiki, any user can edit the site content, including other users' contributions, using a regular Web browser. Basically, a wiki Web site operates on a principle of collaborative trust.

• Mooc is an acronym for “massive open online course”. It refers to a web-based class designed to support a large number of participants.
• Typically, students enrolled in a Mooc watch video lectures – often sliced into digestible 10 or 15-minute segments – and interact with instructors and fellow participants in online forums. Some moocs require students to take online tests or quizzes with multiple choice answers that can be graded automatically, while others require students to complete peer-reviewed assignments. Some moocs use a combination of these assessments.
• • A list of web-based platforms that are used by top universities and colleges in a wide range of subjects. Each show an example of the type of MOOC course that is offered.

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• • The article lists problems wit on the job training or site training. Their solution was to create MOOC's to help with training and maintain productivity without interrupting employees from work to train.
• To fix its problem, McAfee turned to a concept sweeping the education scene: Massive Open Online Courses, or MOOCs. By using a tenet of MOOCs called “flipping the classroom,” which means that the majority of learning happens not with a professor lecturing the students but by giving students access to course materials and having them probe, discuss, and debate issues with fellow learners as well as the professor.

• Disinformation is inaccurate information published with the intent of deceiving an intended audience (see future post PSYOP 201 due out next week).
• • Shows an example of misinformation vs disinformation to get a better understanding of the definition. 
• Disinformation, on the other hand, could be a form black propaganda.  Perhaps the individual in question worked for an adversarial organization, but probably not.

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