Qlgalting's List: DGL Vocabulary

• •  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.”
• “Digital literacy is the ability to interpret and design nuanced communication across fluid digital forms.”

• digital citizen is one who knows what is right and wrong, exhibits intelligent technology behavior, and makes good choices when using technology.

• Digital Citizenship consists of numerous themes including appropriate online etiquette, literacy in how digital technology works and how to use it, an understanding of ethics and the law as it relates to technology, knowing how to stay safe online, and advice on health issues relating to the use of technology.

• Digital citizenship can be defined as the norms of appropriate, responsible behavior with regard to technology use.

• Digital identity refers to the ways and means that identity is created and perceived in the digital world, i.e., online.

• Digital identities are who we say we are, when weare online.
• The phenomenon of the digital identity has been referred to by many differ-ent terms including: online identity, online personality, digiSelf, virtual identity,avatar and online persona. These terms all refer roughly to the same idea, of anindividual using a computer and creating a new identity for themselves on theInternet.

• Digital security is the protection of your digital identity - the network or Internet equivalent of your physical identity.

• The full definition of Digital Security (self-protection) is: taking necessary precautions to guarantee electronic digital safety.

• 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 means making reasoned judgments that are logical and well thought out. It is a way of thinking in which you don't simply accept all arguments and conclusions you are exposed to but rather have an attitude involving questioning such arguments and conclusions.
• critical thinking can be divided into the following three core skills. Curiosity is the desire to learn more information and seek evidence as well as being open to new ideas.
• Skepticism involves having a healthy questioning attitude about new information that you are exposed to and not blindly believing everything everyone tells you.
• Finally, humility is the ability to admit that your opinions and ideas are wrong when faced with new convincing evidence that states otherwise

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• • understand the logical connections between ideas
   
  • identify, construct and evaluate arguments
   
  • detect inconsistencies and common mistakes in reasoning
   
  • solve problems systematically
   
  • identify the relevance and importance of ideas
   
  • reflect on the justification of one's own beliefs and values

• plagiarism occurs when a writer deliberately uses someone else’s language, ideas, or other original (not common-knowledge) material without acknowledg­ing its source.

• Plagiarism means presenting   the words, phrases, ideas or work of another, including certain facts   and statistics, as if they were your own.

• Plagiarism is regarded  as a very serious offence in the academic world. It constitutes academic theft  - the offender has 'stolen' the work of others and presented the stolen work  as if it were his or her own. It goes to the integrity and honesty of a person.  It stifles creativity and originality, and defeats the purpose of education.
• Put it simply, plagiarism is copying the work of another person without proper  acknowledgement.

• Plagiarism is the act of copying someone else's work and publishing it as your own.

• 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.
• • 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.

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• Those freedoms extended to everyone in a digital world!

• Having the right to use any and all digital technologies, while using it in a accountable manner. As a technology user you have the right to confidentiality and liberty of individual expression

• users interact with each other through the experience and manipulation of shared media.