Robert Thomas's List: DGL Vocabulary

• 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.

• Digital literacy is the ability to use information and communication technologies to find, evaluate, create, and communicate information requiring both cognitive and technical skills.

• Digital citizenship can be defined as the norms of appropriate, responsible behavior with regard to technology use.
• an equal amount of goods and services which are in conflict with the laws or morals of some countries are surfacing (which might include activities such as illegal downloading, pornography, and gambling).

• The digital society is here, so what is digital citizenship? Just as we are citizens of a physical country, so are we citizens of the digital world. Just as we need to obey the laws, and not harm anyone, that same spirit exists in the digital world – and it impacts the physical world as well. The mean words and pictures that are posted online, can hurt people in their daily lives at school and in their community.

  
   

  But citizenship means more than behaving responsibly, it also means that we should be civically engaged: voting, keeping current and having our voice in political matters, and contributing to society.

• Digital Identity has been described as “the sum of all digitally available information about an individual.” It’s your digital footprint—the evidence of your life in tweets, Facebook updates, pins, blog posts and other interactions on the Web.

• The digital  self in cyberspace challenges traditional notions of the self and calls for redefinition  of the self when extended into cyberspace. People encounter paradoxical situations as they  construct their selves in cyberspace. When interfacing with computers, they are persuaded  of the illusion of space or place behind their computer monitors in which they  imaginatively and consciously construct, represent or perceive their digital identities  while interacting with other digital identities. There is a tendency to forget the body in  cyberspace. The technological construction of the self in cyberspace can be thought of as  adding a new dimension to one’s self-concept.

• "Digital Law is defined as the electronic responsibility for actions, deeds which is either ethical or unethical.

• Digital law is identified as the responsibility of being safe online and following online rules.
• Being able to follow the rules while using the internet.
• Digital responsibility deals with the ethics of technology. 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. Students should not be able to steal or cause damage to other people’s work, identity, or property. There are certain rules of society that fall under illegal acts. These laws apply to students as well. "

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• Digital law is any type of thing that someone does online that is against the law, such as identity theft, illegal music downloading, etc.

• “native speakers” of the digital language of

  computers, video games and the

  Internet.

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

• 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. This exposure to technology in the early years is believed to give digital natives a greater familiarity withand understanding of technology than people who were born before it was widespread.

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  Someone who was born before the existence of digital technologies and adopted it to some extent later in life.

• Digitial Immigrants can never become Digital Natives because they were not born after the introduction of digital technology.  Eager Adopters, however, are clearly the class Digital Immigrants that can relate more closely to most Digital Natives.
•  Digital Immigrants are the parents, teachers, and managers of Digital Natives.

• a collection of user-created information that anyone can access online. While wikis usually include references and may, in fact, be written by people with expertise in the field, they are not acceptable sources for research papers

• a website which allows its users to add, modify, or delete its content via a web browser usually using a simplified markup language or a rich-text editor.^[1][2][3] Wikis are powered by wiki software. Most are created collaboratively.

• The term "wiki" comes from the Hawaiian phrase, "wiki wiki," which means "super fast."

• MOOC is first and foremost an online course. What makes MOOCs different from other online offerings is the fact that they are “open” — meaning that anyone can enroll, typically free of charge — and that each course tends to have hundreds to thousands of participants.

• teaching programs designed to handle thousands of students simultaneously, in part using the tactics of social-networking websites. To supplement video lectures, much of the learning comes from online comments, questions and discussions. Participants even mark one another's tests.

• false information deliberately and often covertly spread (as by the planting of rumors) in order to influence public opinion or obscure the truth