Mlmunksgard's List: DGL Vocabulary

• Competencies for digital literacy can be classified according to three main principles: Use, Understand and Create.
• Use represents the technical fluency that’s needed to engage with computers and the Internet.
• Understand is that critical piece – it’s the set of skills that help us comprehend, contextualize, and critically evaluate digital media, so that we can make informed decisions about what we do and encounter online.
• Create is the ability to produce content and effectively communicate through a variety of digital media tools.
• Digital literacy is more than technological know-how: it includes a wide variety of ethical, social, and reflective practices that are embedded in work, learning, leisure, and daily life.

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• 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.
• • LIVE – digital citizenship, skills and safety  
  • LEARN – college and career explorations  
  • EARN – personal financial literacy  
  • PLAY – arts, culture, and fun in the city

• We simply define digital literacies as the capabilities which fit someone for living, learning and working in a digital society. That is intentionally broad, and provides more of a starting point for discussion than a final answer.

• The definition I most frequently use is this one: digital literacy = digital tool knowledge + critical thinking + social engagement.
• It supports and helps develop traditional literacies
  • It's a life-long practice
  • It's about skills, competencies and critical reflection on how these skills and competencies are applied
  • It's about social engagement
• Developing digital literacies in practice requires:
  • Providing authentic contexts for practice, including digitally-mediated contexts
  • Individual scaffolding and support
  • Making practices of meaning-making explicit
  • Anticipating and helping learners manage conflict between different practice contexts
  • Recognising and helping learners integrate their prior conceptions and practices
• We need to understand learners personal digital literacies before ploughing into 'supporting' them

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• Obviously, depending on the grade level  you teach, your students will have different abilities in each of the four areas, so your expectations and your teaching approach may differ quite noticeably from your colleagues.
• 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”.

• Essential Elements of Digital Literacy

   
   
  • Cultural – Look at the context in which the literacy is situated
   
  • Cognitive – How do we think when we are using a device (vs when we are not)?
   
  • Constructive – We should aim to use technology in a constructive (vs a passive) way
   
  • Communicative – We should be using technology to enhance our communications
   
  • Confident – You need to be confident to jump in feet first and explore/use/master/learn technology
   
  • Creative – Using technology in the classroom requires some creativity and risk taking – don’t stick to the basics when you can test out a new idea or use for technology
   
  • Critical – You need the ability to look at the technologies you’re using (and what you’re using them for) with a critical eye
   
  • Civic- We should be using the technologies available to us for greater good (which can be widely defined)

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• 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.
• how should we act when we are online, and what should be taught to the next generation.

• Digital Rights and Responsibilities the privileges and freedoms extended to all digital technology users, and the behavioral expectations that come with them      

  

      Digital Communication
    the electronic exchange of information       

  

      Digital Access
    full electronic participation in society      

  

      Digital Etiquette
    the standards of conduct expected by other digital technology users       

  

      Digital Security
    the precautions that all technology users must take to guarantee their personal safety and the security of their network           

  

   

  

      Digital Literacy
    the capability to use digital technology and knowing when and how to use it       

  

      Digital Law
    the legal rights and restrictions governing technology use           

  

   

  

      Digital Health and Wellness
    the elements of physical and psychological well-being related to digital technology use       

  

      Digital Commerce
    the buying and selling of goods online
• A digital citizen is one who knows what is right and wrong, exhibits intelligent technology behavior, and makes good choices when using technology.
• Digital Rights and Responsibilities the privileges and freedoms extended to all digital technology users, and the behavioral expectations that come with them      

  

      Digital Communication
    the electronic exchange of information       

  

      Digital Access
    full electronic participation in society      

  

      Digital Etiquette
    the standards of conduct expected by other digital technology users       

  

      Digital Security
    the precautions that all technology users must take to guarantee their personal safety and the security of their network           

  

   

  

      Digital Literacy
    the capability to use digital technology and knowing when and how to use it       

  

      Digital Law
    the legal rights and restrictions governing technology use           

  

   

  

      Digital Health and Wellness
    the elements of physical and psychological well-being related to digital technology use       

  

      Digital Commerce
    the buying and selling of goods online

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• Digital Citizenship is the concept of educating students (and all technology users) about how to use technology appropriately.
• This involves using technology effectively and not misusing it to disadvantage others.
• It begins the first time they interact with online technology, such as the first time they use the internet, send an email or text message, or sign on to an game service.

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• Digital citizenship refers to the behaviors, choices, and ethics a person applies when using technology.
• “An understanding of the ethical, legal, and safe use of information and technology. Respect for copyright, intellectual property, and the appropriate documentation of sources including the ability to differentiate between legal and illegal uses of information and sources so that students learn to apply responsible research practices. An awareness of local and global societal issues and responsibilities in an evolving digital culture, digital etiquette, and responsible social interactions related to the use of technology and information.”

• 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.

• Our digital identity, or tattoo, is the permanent collection of data about us that is available online.  Each time we post a picture, a blog, a status or a tweet, we are adding to that digital identity.

• Your digital identity encompasses a staggering amount of information. Every credit card transaction, uploaded photo, shared social post, social login, sent email, and site cookie shapes our digital identity. It's all out there somewhere in the cloud.
• But you don't own your digital identity -- or at least you don't manage or control it.
• In other words, who you are is increasingly cross-linked across multiple domains, in multiple dimensions, and even across your real-life persona.
• As our lives move online and our digital identities achieve a kind of power they never had before, we need to own our digital identities. The best way to achieve this is through a web infrastructure that rides above the applications we consume on the web.

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• We live in a world where technology can connect complete strangers with the click of a button, and where networking and professional development can be enhanced through social media platforms such as Twitter, LinkedIn, and countless others.
• Self-expression, creativity, social change, and one’s identity are all facets of a brand. Almost all Millennials are on Social Media, and have created various accounts to connect with their friends, family, classmates, and even their bosses or professors. Upon the creation of a Facebook or About.Me account, a student is inadvertently creating a brand for them self, whether they intend to or not.
• This is the creation of one’s digital identity – The personal brand, persona, or representation of one’s self via social media.
• The repercussions for presenting a negative digital identity can be serious… The loss of a job is one harsh example that is a real life consequence of a negative online persona.

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• Often a person’s online identity is created at the time of (or even before) their birth. Parents’ eagerness to share the good news leads to Facebook statuses that include the baby’s name, Pinterest boards dedicated to photos of a child, or Instagram photos hashtagged with a child’s nickname.

• 6.   Digital Law:   electronic responsibility for actions and deeds
   Digital law deals with the ethics of technology within a society. Unethical use manifests itself in form of theft and/or crime. Ethical use manifests itself in the form of abiding by the laws of society. Users need to understand that stealing or causing damage to other people’s work, identity, or property online is a crime. There are certain rules of society that users need to be aware in a ethical society. These laws apply to anyone who works or plays online. Hacking into others information, downloading illegal music, plagiarizing, creating destructive worms, viruses or creating Trojan Horses, sending spam, or stealing anyone’s identify or property is unethical.

• a succinct answer is that it is identified as the rules of the internet.
• Most of the laws deal with matters of ethics, but some also deal with outright criminal intents.
• Above all this, the use of copyright and privacy seems to command the highest level of digital law application.

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• Theorists often define ethics in terms of a set of principles of right, or moral, conduct.
• Seeing is not believing.

• The post-millennial "digital native," a term coined by U.S. author Marc Prensky in 2001 is emerging as the globe's dominant demographic, while the "digital immigrant," becomes a relic of a previous time.
• Prensky defines digital natives as those born into an innate "new culture" while the digital immigrants are old-world settlers, who have lived in the analogue age and immigrated to the digital world.
• Although not Luddites, the immigrants struggle more than natives to adapt to hi-tech progress.
• Connecting with one another in the modern world requires a knack for social networking and texting, which is the norm for the digital native.

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• A digital native is an individual who was born after the widespread adoption of digital technology. The term digital native doesn't refer to a particular generation. Instead, it is a catch-all category for children who have grown up using technology like the Internet, computers and mobile devices.
• Interacting regularly with technology at a young age is the deciding factor.
• Not all children born today are digital natives by default.
• These people believe digital natives think differently due to their early exposure to technology and have become accustom to using technology to solve the repetitive tasks that form the basis of traditional learning.

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• igital Natives are the generation born during or after the general introduction of digital technology.
• Digital Natives have been using these technologies since their early years.
• They are part of a tech-savvy generation at the forefront of technological progress and want to be connected when they wish, from anywhere.
• the first generation of Digital Natives is entering the working world – and transforming it at a fast pace
• Technology has been integrated into the lives of Digital Natives since early childhood, providing them with the skills to naturally adapt to it from a young age.

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