Latosha Cooper's List: Exploring More Digital Literacy

• Digital literacy is the ability to effectively and critically navigate, evaluate and create information using a range of digital technologies. It requires one "to recognize and use that power, to manipulate and transform digital media, to distribute pervasively, and to easily adapt them to new forms".^[1] Digital literacy does not replace traditional forms of literacy. It builds upon the foundation of traditional forms of literacy.^[1] Digital literacy is the marrying of the two terms digital and literacy; however, it is much more than a combination of the two terms. Digital information is a symbolic representation of data, and literacy refers to the ability to read for knowledge, write coherently, and think critically about the written word.

• Well, first citizenship, which is formally defined as “the quality of an individual’s response to membership in a community.” This makes citizenship far more complex than a simple legal matter, but rather one that consists of self-knowledge, interaction, and intimate knowledge of a place, its people, and its cultural history.

   

  So digital citizenship is nearly the same thing–”the quality of a response to membership in a digital community” would be a good first crack at the definition.
• Revising that might more clearly articulate the differences between physical and digital communities, so a decent definition of digital citizenship then might be “Self-monitored participation that reflects conscious interdependence with all (visible and less visible) community members”
• But that leaves out the idea of content itself, which leads us to a pretty good definition for educators: “The quality of habits, actions, and consumption patterns that impact the ecology of digital content and communities.”

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• A digital citizen:

   
   
   
  "A digital citizen accepts and understands the rights and responsibilities of inhabiting ‘cyberspace’, including online safety."
   
   
   
    
  • is a confident and capable user of information and communication technology (ICT)
    
  • uses ICTs to participate in educational, cultural, and economic activities
    
  • uses and develops critical thinking skills in cyberspace
    
  • is literate in the language, symbols, and texts of ICTs
    
  • is aware of ICT challenges and can manage them effectively
    
  • uses ICT to relate to others in positive, meaningful ways
    
  • demonstrates honesty and integrity and ethical behaviour in their use of ICTs
    
  • respects the concepts of privacy and freedom of speech in a digital world
    
  • contributes and actively promotes the values of digital citizenship.

• Definition - What does Digital Identity mean?

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  , key areas of concern are security and privacy.

• A digital identity is a set of claims made by one digital subject about itself or another digital subject.
• “A Digital Identity is the representation of a human identity that is used in a distributed network interaction with other machines or people.”
• A digital identity is a combination of credentials that manages a computer user's authentication, authorization and access rights.
• A digital identity is the combination of the cryptographic keys and the certificate. A digital identity is a file, stored on a hard disk or some other external device (ex: Smartcard, USB-Token).
  The cryptographic keys, is what it is all about. You could consider the certificate as the packaging for the keys which allow for verifying the validity and, to a certain extend, the correctness of the information.

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• Digital Security means to protect information. It deals with the prevention and detection of unauthorized actions by users of a computer.This definition by nature, implies the necessity to clearly understand the true value of an organizations proprietary information. It also means that all employees, managers and executives must understand how information might be compromised.

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   The definition of digital security is being safe online and anything you do that involves technology.
  

• ome examples of issues involving digital security

   
  • Weak passwords can lead to accounts being stolen easily. You must have strong passwords that are difficult to guess.
  • Someone can delete your hard work or make you appear poorly by hacking into one of your social/work accounts and writing/deleting information
  • someone can steal money from you through your bank account because they found your credit card or have your personal account information.

• The full definition of Digital Security (self-protection) is: taking necessary precautions to guarantee electronic digital safety. Any digital product can be hacked and stolen, hence the hacker or the theif may and can get personal information of the digital product; comprimising you since amoug the things they can steal is your credit card number, or even your social security number (only in the US). In any society, there are individuals who steal, deface, or disrupt other people. The same is true for the digital community. It is not enough to trust other members in the community for our own safety. In our own homes, we put locks on our doors and fire alarms in our houses to provide some level of protection. The same must be true for the digital security. We need to have virus protection, backups of data, and surge control of our equipment. As responsible citizens, we must protect our information from outside forces that might cause disruption or harm.
• The full definition of Digital Security (self-protection) is: taking necessary precautions to guarantee electronic digital safety. Any digital product can be hacked and stolen, hence the hacker or the theif may and can get personal information of the digital product; comprimising you since amoug the things they can steal is your credit card number, or even your social security number (only in the US). In any society, there are individuals who steal, deface, or disrupt other people. The same is true for the digital community. It is not enough to trust other members in the community for our own safety. In our own homes, we put locks on our doors and fire alarms in our houses to provide some level of protection. The same must be true for the digital security. We need to have virus protection, backups of data, and surge control of our equipment. As responsible citizens, we must protect our information from outside forces that might cause disruption or harm.
• Digital Security is simply about being secure about everthing that is electronic. For example, when you begin to learn about computers and the internet, you are taught to not reveal any personal information, like your full name and contact numbers. Then, on a later stage, you are taught about anti-virus software; and how it works.

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• 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.
• It entails the examination of those structures or elements of thought implicit in all reasoning: purpose, problem, or question-at-issue; assumptions; concepts; empirical grounding; reasoning leading to conclusions; implications and consequences; objections from alternative viewpoints; and frame of reference. Critical thinking — in being responsive to variable subject matter, issues, and purposes — is incorporated in a family of interwoven modes of thinking, among them: scientific thinking, mathematical thinking, historical thinking, anthropological thinking, economic thinking, moral thinking, and philosophical thinking.

• critical thinking

  noun

  disciplined thinking that is clear, rational, open-minded, and informed by evidence: The questions are intended to develop your critical thinking.

• : to use the words or ideas of another person as if they were your own words or ideas
• :  to steal and pass off (the ideas or words of another) as one's own :  use (another's production) without crediting the source
• :  to commit literary theft :  present as new and original an idea or product derived from an existing source

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• What Is Plagiarism?

   

    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.

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  1.   submitting someone else’s text as one’s own or attempting to blur the line between one’s own ideas or words and those borrowed from another source, and
   
  2.   carelessly or inadequately citing ideas and words borrowed from another source.

• Digital Rights and Responsibilities:  The privileges all digital technology users have and the expected behaviors that go along with those privileges.  

  Digital citizens have "digital rights" just as U.S. citizens have Consititutional rights, such as the constitutional right to privacy and to free speech. These rights, however, come with responsibilities and expectations that you will behave and use technology appropriately. Topics included under Digital Rights and Responsibilities include:

   
   
  • Citing sources and plagiarizing.
   
  • Using digital devices for the wrong reasons, such as cheating in school or harrassing others.
   
  • Abiding by the school's agreement of acceptable use when using school technology.
   
  • Reporting violations of your personal rights or violations of other's.

• What are Digital Rights and Responsibilities?

   

          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.

• Social collaboration refers to processes that help multiple people interact, share information to achieve any common goal. Such processes find their 'natural' environment on the internet, where collaboration and social dissemination of information are made easier by current innovations.

   

  Sharing concepts on a digital collaboration environment often facilitates a "brainstorming" process, where new concepts may emerge due to the contributions of individuals, professional or otherwise. A crucial concept behind social collaboration is that 'ideas are everywhere.' Individuals are able to share their ideas, as it is not limited to professionals, but rather the general public who wishes to become involved.

• Privacy may be defined as  the claim of individuals, groups or institutions to determine when, how and to  what extent information about them is communicated to others (Westin AF, Privacy and Freedom New York: Atheneum, 1967, page 7).
• Privacy may be defined as  the claim of individuals, groups or institutions to determine when, how and to  what extent information about them is communicated to others (Westin AF, Privacy and Freedom New York: Atheneum, 1967, page 7).
• Privacy is your right to  control what happens with personal information about you.
• The use of the Internet can  affect the privacy rights a person has in his or her identity or personal data.  Internet use and transactions generate a large amount of personal information which  provide insights into your personality and interests.

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• • the state or condition of being free from being observed or disturbed by other people:she returned to the privacy of her own home
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  • the state of being free from public attention:a law to restrict newspapers' freedom to invade people’s privacy

• Social Literacy: an individual’s ability to successfully and deliberately mediate their world as family members, workers, citizens and lifelong learners.

• Moral literacy involves three basic components: ethics sensitivity; ethical reasoning skills; and moral imagination. It is the contention of the author that though math and reading literacy is highly valued by the American educational system, moral literacy is extremely undervalued and under-developed. Design/methodology/approach
• Moral literacy is a skill that must be crafted and honed by students, and with the aid of teachers who are well-versed in moral subject matter. It is a complex and multifaceted skill set that is interconnected and must therefore be learned completely in order to be used properly. Teaching students about moral literacy is truly necessary if schools wish to produce productive and responsible citizens.