Msvera's List: DGL Vocabulary

• while the digital immigrants are old-world settlers, who have lived in the analogue age and immigrated to the digital world.

• Digital Immigrants - those people that grew up before the digital age where items such as home computers, the Internet and mobile phones were either non-existent or not as widely available.
• They are those people who adapt with these digital technologies.
  

• Digital Natives and Digital Immigrants are terms used to describe where people fall on the technology timeline based on when they were born, before or after 1980.
• Digital Immigrants are those born prior to 1980. According to the definition by Mark Prensky, these are the people who grew up reading newspapers, playing board games and cards, know what a record is, and watched the news and weather on television.

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  Digital 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 have always had the Internet, laptops, cell phones with text messaging,AIM, Facebook™ or MySpace™, PlayStations™, digital cameras,DVDplayers, blogs, and any other number of digital technologies that allow them to instantly capture or communicate with their world.
• They have learned the language of technology as they communicate instantly with their peers. These students, like all Natives, adapt quickly to changes in their environment and look for new ways to incorporate the latest technology into their fast-paced lives.

• a generation “born digital” – those who grow up immersed in digital technologies, for whom a life fully integrated with digital devices is the norm.

• The term multimodal literacy (developed from Kress & van Leeuwen 2001) is gaining currency as a term that points to the rather complex semiotic competences that citizens need to develop in order to gain a formative influence on the knowledge society
• Multimodal competences encompass the ability to

  access, but also to use mediatized forms of communication; it denotes the ability to retrieve and receive but also to produce such forms of communication.
• it signals that information is but one element in a multifaceted spectrum of mediatized expressions that also encompass entertainment, interaction and performance.

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• Multimodality refers to the fact that all texts combine and

  integrate diverse semiotic modalities.

• multimodality simply means the ability to create and read a variety of modes of communication.
• IRA’s definition of multimodality emphasizes the increasingly digital nature of society’s modes of communicating.
• Literacy today requires competence in engaging with, evaluating, and creating these texts online as well as through more traditional methods.

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• meme" is a virally-transmitted cultural symbol or social idea

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  diless replicator itself, Dawkins proposed a name. He called it the meme,
• “Memes propagate themselves in the meme pool by leaping from brain to brain via a process which, in the broad sense, can be called imitation,” he wrote.

• A meme is an idea that is passed on from one human generation to another.
• Meme is an abbreviated form of the Greek word "mimeme," which means "something imitated."

• A wiki is a Web page that can be viewed and modified by any

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  body with a Web browser and access to the Internet.

• A wiki is a collaborative tool that allows you to contribute and modify one or more pages of course related materials

• A wiki is a web site that lets any visitor become a participant:  you can create or edit the actual site contents without any special technical knowledge or tools.

• The internet has given us the ability to connect with people from around the globe with a fews clicks of a button, making it easier than ever to keep in touch with our friends and family. Because of that, social networking is the biggest industry of our time, but it wasn’t always that way.
• Its intent was to allow users to create their own websites, dividing them into “cities” based on the website’s content.

• Social networking is the grouping of individuals into specific groups, like small rural communities or a neighborhood subdivision, if you will.
• When it comes to online social networking, websites are commonly used. These websites are known as social sites. Social networking websites function like an online community of internet users.

• We define social network sites as web-based services that allow individuals to (1) construct a public or semi-public profile within a bounded system, (2) articulate a list of other users with whom they share a connection, and (3) view and traverse their list of connections and those made by others within the system.
• “Networking” emphasizes relationship initiation, often between strangers.

• Academic integrity is the pursuit of scholarly activity in an open, honest and responsible manner

• Academic integrity is the core set of values and principles that underwrites the very mission of the University itself: integrity, honesty, hard work, and the determination to translate personal and professional principles into behavior.