Tony Mingacci's List: DGL Vocabulary

• What is Digital Literacy?

   
   
  •  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 effectively and critically navigate, evaluate and create information using a range of digital technologies. It requires one "to recognize and use that power, to manipulate and transform digital media, to distribute pervasively, and to easily adapt them to new forms".^[1] Digital literacy does not replace traditional forms of literacy. It builds upon the foundation of traditional forms of literacy.^[1] Digital literacy is the marrying of the two terms digital and literacy; however, it is much more than a combination of the two terms. Digital information is a symbolic representation of data, and literacy refers to the ability to read for knowledge, write coherently, and think critically about the written word.

• digital citizenship then might be “Self-monitored participation that reflects conscious interdependence with all (visible and less visible) community members”
• “the self-monitored habits that sustain and improve the digital communities you enjoy or depend on.”

• "Digital citizenship can be defined as the norms of appropriate, responsible behavior with regard to technology use." 
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  5.	Digital Citizenship
  	Students understand human, cultural, and societal issues related to technology and practice legal and ethical behavior. Students:
  	a. advocate and practice safe, legal, and responsible use of information and technology. b. exhibit a positive attitude toward using technology that supports collaboration, learning, and productivity. c. demonstrate personal responsibility for lifelong learning. d. exhibit leadership for digital citizenship.

• Digital citizenship is usually defined as the "norms of behavior with regard to technology use." It encompasses digital literacy, ethics, etiquette, online safety, norms, rights, culture and more. Microsoft recognizes that good digital citizenship, when you use computers, gaming consoles, or mobile devices, promotes a safer online environment for all
• Managing your online behavior and monitoring your reputation are important elements of good digital citizenship. Microsoft recently surveyed teen and parental attitudes, awareness of, and behaviors toward managing their online reputations.

• Definition - What does Digital Identity mean?

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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.
• 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.

• Digital identity refers to the ways and means that identity is created and perceived in the digital world, i.e., online. It includes unique descriptive data, as well as information about relationships. That is, it defines a thing both in and of itself and in relationship to other things. Both a person and a company can have a digital identity and while a person always has a concrete identity in the world, businesses may have a storefront identity and establish a digital presence as they establish an online presence in order to do business online.
• Digital identity is also important in terms of online credentials. There are many websites for which an individual creates a username and password and — upon returning to that site at a later date — one confirms one’s identity by re-entering them. For companies, dated digital certificates that are issued by a Certified Authority (CA) play a role in the Public-Key Encryption system that allows secure communication on the Internet.

• For a company, digital identity is also created by the URL used, the company logo, the website design, and the text and features on the website. Using, or failure to use, social networking such as Twitter® or Facebook® also contributes to a company’s online identity, and the kinds of exchanges that occur there are important as well. Further contributions to online identity occur through a company’s choice to use or not use PayPal®, Google Checkout®, wishlists, and other features that make interactions convenient for customers. Professional networking on sites such as LinkedIn® or XING® further contributes to the formation of the company’s digital identity.

    

  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.

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• As new media is transforming culture, we transform ourselves into digital iden-tities in the information age. Digital identities are who we say we are, when weare online.
• They can be a subtype of a public persona, an extension of our ‘true’selves, or they can be completely fabricated and fantastical, to function as a mask to hide the identity of an Internet user from rest of the world. A digital identitycan spin intricate, interconnected webs utilising creative, social and interactiv
• eplatforms that enable them to share and perform to an open or closed audience.(Cubitt) Both online identities and online communities are part of a virtual real-ity; simply put, a reality or existence that in most cases will only exist on theInternet and not ‘of 

   

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• "Digital Law is defined as the electronic responsibility for actions, deeds which is either ethical or unethical. Digital responsibility deals with the ethics of technology. Unethical use manifests itself in form of theft and/or crime. Ethical manifests itself in the form of abiding by the laws of society." It is basically about what you are and are not allowed to do while surfing and using the Internet

• Digital Rights & Responsibilities:   those freedoms extended to everyone in a digital world.
   Just as in the American Constitution where there is a Bill of Rights, there is a basic set of rights extended to every digital citizen. Digital citizens have the right to privacy, free speech, etc. Basic digital rights must be addressed, discussed, and understood in the digital world.  With these rights also come responsibilities as well.  Users must help define how the technology is to be used in an appropriate manner.  In a digital society these two areas must work together for everyone to be productive

• ates to crimes of stealing or causing damage to other people’s work, identity, or digital property.  
   
  • Stealing someone's identity is called identity theft. (Covered in Section #7, Digital Security.)
   
  • Stealing someone's digital property can be intellectual property theft, digital piracy, or plagiarism.
   
  • Causing damage to others would be crimes such as hacking or creating and sending viruses.
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• a person born or brought up during the age of digital technology and therefore familiar with computers and the Internet from an early age.

  "the digital tools that are reshaping our economy make more sense to young digital natives than to members of older generations"

• a person born or brought up during the age of digital technology and therefore familiar with computers and the Internet from an early age: the digital tools that are reshaping our economy make more sense to young digital natives than to members of older generations

• 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 paper.

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

• Digital immigrants are those of us who came into this new environment later in life.

• phones but has learned to use it later in life

• A collaborative Web site comprises the perpetual collective work of many authors. Similar to a blog in structure and logic, a wiki allows anyone to edit, delete or modify content that has been placed on the Web site using a browser interface, including the work of previous authors. In contrast, a blog, typically authored by an individual, does not allow visitors to change the original posted material, only add comments to the original content.
• The term wiki refers to either the Web site or the software used to create the site.
• Wiki wiki means "quick" in Hawaiian. The first wiki was created by

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• a website that allows collaborative editing of its content and structure by its users

• A wiki is a Web site that allows users to add and update content on the site using their own Web browser. This is made possible by Wiki software that runs on the Web server. Wikis end up being created mainly by a collaborative effort of the site visitors. A great example of a large wiki is the Wikipedia, a free encyclopedia in many languages that anyone can edit. The term "wiki" comes from the Hawaiian phrase, "wiki wiki," which means "super fast." I guess if you have thousands of users adding content to a Web site on a regular basis, the site could grow "super fast.