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Kenneth Simpson's List: DGL Vocabulary
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Digital Immigrant
A digital immigrant is a person that was not born into the digital age. They are the generation that grew up with board games and long darts as opposed to xbox's, and smart phones. They are the generation that has to evolve and change due to the fast changing world of technology.
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Researchers use the term digital immigrant to classify people born before the introduction of digital technology
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Digital Natives are called by many names –Millennials and Gen Y. They are approximately ages 10- 29 years and born into the digital age. The internet is their default and comfort level in terms of playing games, doing homework, searching for events/ information/products , and sending messages. Quick response, flexibility and openness to change are their standard. They use it to communicate (texting, social networks). The Natives are the fabric of the social web; they live here, using these tools for social communication. This is their natural habitat; they use digital and think about it as a social tool. They need to be guided to: understand how this skill set integrates into a business strategy; adapt their social use of Facebook, etc. to a strategic marketing tool; and monitor and evaluate the use of these tools. They will grow to become Digital Integrators.
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Digital Natives
A digital native that was born into the digital age They grew up with ipads and touch screens and because of that they are very good with technology and how to use it to accomplish everyday tasks.
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Digital natives are the generation born around the arrival of digital technology. They have used digital technologies since early childhood, naturally developing the skills to integrate them in their lives.
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Digital Natives are people who have grown up in the digital world using technology as a way to communicate, record, educate, and understand society. Today's tweens and teens are digital natives as they have had access to computers, cell phones, email, and other forms of technology since birth. Digital Natives speak the language of technology and are as comfortable with technology as past generations have been with pen and
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Multimodal Society
Multimodal society is where something is being said in one contexts but can then be answered or returned in variety of other contexts.
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Multimodality is an inter-disciplinary approach that understands communication and representation to be more than about language. It has been developed over the past decade to systematically address much-debated questions about changes in society, for instance in relation to new media and technologies.
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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.
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Meme
A meme is something that is being passed from one person to another multiple times, usually something involving an idea or a certain behavior within any given culture.
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An Internet meme is a piece of content or an idea that's passed from person to person, changing and evolving along the way.
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Meme (pron. meem): A contagious information pattern that replicates by parasitically infecting human minds and altering their behavior, causing them to propagate the pattern. (Term coined by Dawkins, by analogy with "gene".) Individual slogans, catch-phrases, melodies, icons, inventions, and fashions are typical memes. An idea or information pattern is not a meme until it causes someone to replicate it, to repeat it to someone else. All transmitted knowledge is memetic.
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Wikis
A wiki is a website, software, or a program that lets multiple users interact within that given application for ease of use and also for a teaching and learning aid.
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Wiki is a piece of server software that allows users to freely create and edit Web page content using any Web browser. Wiki supports hyperlinks and has a simple text syntax for creating new pages and crosslinks between internal pages on the fly.
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A wiki (sometimes spelled "Wiki") is a server program that allows users to collaborate in forming the content of a Web site.
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Social Networking
Social networking is using various application usually on the internet to interact with friends, family, or co-workers on a more informal friendly platform.
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A social networking service is an online service, platform, or site that focuses on facilitating the building of social networks or social relations among people who, for example, share interests, activities, backgrounds, or real-life connections
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Social networking is the grouping of individuals into specific groups, like small rural communities or a neighborhood subdivision, if you will. Although social networking is possible in person, especially in the workplace, universities, and high schools, it is most popular online.
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Moral/Social Literacy
Moral/Social literacy is being able to socially interact with others discussing various controversial or non-controversal topics while still maintaing respect for one another.
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Moral literacy is defined as the ability to contend with complex moral problems. It involves the ability to recognize a problem as a moral one.
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the power of identity in groups, and (ii) the process of defining and expanding social groupings to further our aims
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Privacy
Privacy is where you can go about your personal business without fear of having someone spying on your activities.
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Privacy may be defined as the claim of individuals, groups or institutions to determine when, how and to what extent information about them is communicated to others (Westin AF, Privacy and Freedom New York: Atheneum, 1967, page 7).Privacy is your right to control what happens with personal information about you.
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The most general is freedom from interference or intrusion, the right "to be let alone,"
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Collaborative Media
Collaborative media is what we refer to when we are talking about media that makes a wide-range of collaboration possible.
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Collaborative media refers to the medium in which a collaboration takes place. For instance a word document or wiki in the case of coauthoring, vocalisations, body language, auditory and visual perceptions in face-to-face collaborations, or a mix of many media as in the case of the production of a play.
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Digital Rights and Responsibilities
Digital rights and responsibilities are all of the freedoms one have while using digital technology while still being cautious of the responsibilities that go along with using digital technology.
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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
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Digital Rights and Responsibilities are the "privileges and freedom extended to all digital technology users, and the behavioral expectations that come with them" (Ribble & Bailey, 2007). In other words, your students have the privilege and freedom to engage in technology use during school as well as at home. However, there are expectations that accompany the privileges and freedom to use technology. Students must act responsibly as they participate in the digital world.
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Plagiarism
Plagiarism is taking a persons work and calling it your own. Not properly citing another persons work inside a personal paper or assignment can be a form of plagiarism.
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