Squall06's List: DGL Vocabulary

• This Wednesday marks the first-ever Digital Learning Day , a nationwide celebration of innovative teaching and learning through digital media and technology.
• innovative teaching practices that make learning more engaging for students.
• “Globaloria's game design is a terrific way to develop digital literacy in today's young people by teaching them to effectively use digital information and tools. As they participate, they will gain valuable information about their communities. Whether they become workers, parents, employers or voters, young people need the critical thinking and communication skills of the digital age to be fully informed and engaged in the 21st century.”
• There, what started as a pilot project to test teaching news literacy alongside civics through game making is getting ready to be scaled into a state-supported program.

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• • 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
• bility to effectively and critically navigate, evaluate and create information using a range of digital technologies
• Digital literacy does not replace traditional forms of literacy. It builds upon the foundation of traditional forms of literacy.
• use, summarize, evaluate, create, and communicate information while using digital technologies
• Digital natives and immigrants
• Social networking

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• "Digital citizenship can be defined as the norms of appropriate, responsible behavior with regard to technology use.
• Access
• Commerce
• Communication
• • Literacy
   
• Etiquette
• • Rights and responsibilities
   
• Health
• Security

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• The training missions at the Academy teach cadets about cybersecurity topics, such as email threats and website safety

• the quality of a response to membership in a digital community
• digital citizenship is
• digital citizenship then might be “Self-monitored participation that reflects conscious interdependence with all (visible and less visible) community members”
• 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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• A digital identity is an online or networked identity adopted or claimed in cyberspace by an individual, organization or electronic device. These users may also project more than one digital identity through multiple communities. In terms of digital identity management, key areas of concern are security and privacy.

• Like its human counterpart, a digital identity is comprised of characteristics, or data attributes, such as the following:

   
   
  • Username and password
   
  • Online search activities, like electronic transactions
   
  • Date of birth
   
  • Social security number
   
  • Medical history
   
  • Purchasing history or behavior
• A digital identity is linked to one or more digital identifiers, like an email address, URL or domain name. Because identity theft is rampant on the Web, digital identity authentication and validation measures are critical to ensuring Web and network infrastructure security in the public and private sectors.

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• Using virtual spaces to construct identity as multiple yet coherent notions with the identity on the computer as sum of the sum of distributed presence
• The tripartite play of identities in context of video games: multiple real-life identities, virtual identities and projective identities (as a fusion between game-players and their avatars), as well as  the idea that learning involves taking on and playing with identities
• Constructing digital identities as empowerment and personal growth through online self-expression by means of self-publishing, self-reflection, self-documentation

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• Through the use of digital technologies, we are able to create new identities for ourselves. We can choose avatars that look like ourselves, or make a new 'self' by creating a completely different looking avatar. We can customize the way we appear to our fellow gamers and the internet as a whole.
• Digital identity refers to the ways and means that identity is created and perceived in the digital world,

• What is Digital Security

• So to safeguard access to these services, two questions are being asked   everywhere, millions of times a second. Not by people, but by devices.

   

  "Are you who you say you are?" and "Is my data safe with you?"

   

  Digital Security means answering those questions with solutions that  protect and enhance assets and interactions.

• The convenience of digital technology offers a wide array of benefits and risks.
• understand both the positive and negative potential of digital devices in order to take full advantage of the technology.
• one in six Americans is a victim of identify theft every year.(1)
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   Network administrators must keep current on the security needs for technology within the school, including: configuration testing, monitoring, and updating of all systems, including computers, servers, and networks. They also are responsible for:
   1. Data backup
   2. Personal devices connecting to the network
   3. Logging and log analysis
   4. Antivirus and spyware suppression
   5. Filtering, patching, and firewalls
   6. Documentation of systems
   7. Appropriate user access
   8. Crisis preparation

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• definition of Digital Security (self-protection) is: taking necessary precautions to guarantee electronic digital safety.
• they can steal is your credit card number, or even your social security number
• personal information of the digital product
• digital security. We need to have virus protection, backups of data, and surge control of our equipment. As responsible citizens, we must protect our information from outside forces that might cause disruption or harm.
• Digital Security is simply about being secure about everthing that is electronic.

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• 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.
• a set of information and belief generating and processing skills
• Critical thinking can be seen as having two components
• the habit, based on intellectual commitment, of using those skills to guide behavior
• Critical thinking varies according to the motivation underlying it. When grounded in selfish motives, it is often manifested in the skillful manipulation of ideas in service of one’s own, or one's groups’, vested interest.
• Critical thinking of any kind is never universal in any individual; everyone is subject to episodes of undisciplined or irrational thought
• Critical thinking is self-guided, self-disciplined thinking which attempts to reason at the highest level of quality in a fair-minded way

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• disciplined thinking that is clear, rational, open-minded, and informed by evidence
• the mental process of actively and skillfully conceptualizing, applying, analyzing, synthesizing, and evaluating information to reach an answer or conclusion

• Critical thinking is the basis for all sound decision making. It is objective thinking where one analyzes all factors from different angles, perspectives and viewpoints.
• critical thinking is the adhesive that binds together solid judgment, communication, and all things loosely or closely associated with human interaction or action.
• critical thinking is essential in video game development.
• I define critical thinking as objective thinking where one analyzes factors from different angles, perspectives and viewpoints in an attempt to make the best educated decision possible without being judgmental or biased.
• As a game designer, I will constantly be bombarded with ethical decisions about the content put into games I help develop.
• carefully consider what it is that I am being asked to create and what I feel is right for the intended audience of the content. I will have to use absolute and abstract thinking to understand literal consequences and produce creative solutions that satisfy me, my team members, my bosses and the specific audience for which games are produced. I must also understand that some decisions may be detrimental to my job and that there will be times when specific types of communication will be necessary to keep my job, express my concerns and create the best game content possible.

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