jd norton's List: DGL Vocabulary

• The University Library of The University of Illinois defines digital literacy as:

   
   
  •   The ability to use digital technology, communication tools or networks to locate, evaluate, use and create information. ¹
   
  •   The ability to understand and use information in multiple formats from a wide range of sources when it is presented via computers. ²
   
  •   A person’s ability to perform tasks effectively in a digital environment... Literacy includes the ability to read and interpret media, to reproduce data and images through digital manipulation, and to evaluate and apply new knowledge gained from digital environments. ³

• Digital literacy is the ability to find, evaluate, utilize, share, and create content using information technologies and the Internet. As a Cornell student, activities including writing papers, creating multimedia presentations, and posting information about yourself or others online are all a part of your day-to-day life, and all of these activities require varying degrees of digital literacy. Is simply knowing how to do these things enough? No—there’s more to it than that.

•  “The quality of habits, actions, and consumption patterns that impact the ecology of digital content and communities.”
• “the self-monitored habits that sustain and improve the digital communities you enjoy or depend on.”

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• For an individual, online identity consists of one’s self-expression not only through what is said in tweets, posts, emails, blogs, websites, and other online interchanges, but also through representation of oneself with account names, screen names, avatars, and display names, and with artwork, web design, and photographs that one displays or shares on one’s own site or on sharing sites. One’s friends, favorites, followers, and those one chooses to follow — as well as those one chooses to retweet, share, or like — all contribute to the digital identity as well, as does the number of friends or followers one can lay claim to.
• Digital identity refers to the ways and means that identity is created and perceived in the digital world

• 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.

• 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.
• Critical thinking is that mode of thinking - about any subject, content, or problem - in which the thinker improves the quality of his or her thinking by skillfully taking charge of the structures inherent in thinking and
  imposing intellectual standards upon them.

• A well cultivated critical thinker:

  • raises vital questions and problems, formulating them clearly and precisely;
  • gathers and assesses relevant information, using abstract ideas to interpret it effectively comes to well-reasoned conclusions and solutions, testing them against relevant criteria and standards;
  • thinks openmindedly within alternative systems of thought, recognizing and assessing, as need be, their assumptions, implications, and practical consequences; and
  • communicates effectively with others in figuring out solutions to complex problems.
• Critical thinking is, in short, self-directed, self-disciplined, self-monitored, and self-corrective thinking

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• 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

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• The definition of digital rights and responsibilities is having the right and freedom to use all types of digital technology while using the technology in an acceptable and appropriate manner. As a user of digital technology, you also have the right to privacy and the freedom of personal expression.

   
• Digital Rights:
   
   
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    Right to freedom of expression
   
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    Right to privacy
   
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    Right to credit for personal works
   
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    Right to digital access
   
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    Right to our identity 
   
  Digital Responsibilities:
   
   
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    Responsibility to report bullying, harassing, sexting, or identity theft
   
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    Responsibility to cite works used for resources and researching
   
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    Responsibility to download music, videos, and other material legally
   
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    Responsibility to model and teach student expectations of technology use
   
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    Responsibility to keep data/information safe from hackers
   
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    Responsibility not to falsify our identity in any way

• to work with another person or group in order to achieve or do something

• the means of communication, as radio and television, newspapers, and magazines, that reach or influence people widely

• is the ability of an individual or group to seclude themselves or information about themselves and thereby express themselves selectively.

• Social literacy is the development of social skills in a social setting, which helps people to communicate in a respectful manner, as well as becoming involved in a community.

• Disinformation is a type of untrue communication that is purposefully spread and represented as truth to elicit some response that serves the perpetrator's purpose.
• Disinformation is sometimes confused with misinformation but the two are distinguished by their intention. The purpose of disinformation is to deceive. Although misinformation is also false, it is  presented as truth only because the communicator does not have the facts straight.

• ‘Independent study is a process, a method and a philosophy of education:
  in which a student acquires knowledge by his or her own efforts and develops the ability for inquiry and critical evaluation;
• it includes freedom of choice in determining those objectives, within the limits of a given project or program and with the aid of a faculty adviser;
• it places increased educational responsibility on the student for the achieving of objectives and for the value of the goals’.

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• rules of behavior based on ideas about what is morally good and bad

• Academic integrity essentially means “intellectual honesty”: honesty in the use of information, in formulating arguments, and in other activities related to the pursuit of knowledge and understanding. It is a core principle that underpins how we live and learn in a community of inquiry.

• Social networking is the practice of expanding the number of one's business and/or social contacts by making connections through individuals

• A contagious information pattern that replicates by parasitically infecting human minds and altering their behavior, causing them to propagate the pattern.
• Individual slogans, catch-phrases, melodies, icons, inventions, and fashions are typical memes
• The Selfish Gene defines the meme as simply a unit of intellectual or cultural information that survives long enough to be recognized as such, and which can pass from mind to mind.

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• Two or more modes of operation. The term is used to refer to myriad functions and conditions in which two or more different methods, processes or forms of delivery are used. On the Web, it refers to asking for something one way and receiving the answer another; for example requesting information via speech and receiving the answer on screen.