Tara Harms's List: DGL Vocabulary

• What is Digital Literacy?

   

    Digital literacy is the ability to find, evaluate, utilize, share, and create content using information technologies and
• Digital
• activities including writing papers, creating multimedia presentations, and posting information about yourself or others online are all a part of your day-to-day life, and all of these activities require varying degrees of digital literacy.
• the Internet.
• Digital literacy is an important topic because technology is changing faster than society is.

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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 is more than knowing how to send a text or watch a music video. It means having the knowledge and ability to use a range of technology tools for varied purposes. A digitally literate person can use technology strategically to find and evaluate information, connect and collaborate with others, produce and share original content, and use the Internet and technology tools to achieve many academic, professional, and personal goals.

• Digital citizenship is the norms of appropriate, responsible technology use.
• digital citizenship, digital wellness or digital ethics the issues are the same; how should we act when we are online, and what should be taught to the next generation.

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    A digital citizen is one who knows what is right and wrong, exhibits intelligent technology behavior, and makes good choices when using technology. To understand the complexity of digital citizenship and the issues of technology use, abuse, and misuse,

• • Definition: 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. (2008)

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  Definition - What does Digital Identity mean?

   

  A digital identity is an online or networked identity adopted or claimed in cyberspace by an individual, organization or electronic device.
• A digital identity is linked to one or more digital identifiers, like an email address, URL or domain name.

• A digital identity is a set of claims made by one digital subject about itself or another digital subject.
• Digital Identity is the representation of a human identity that is used in a distributed network interaction with other machines or people.”
• A digital identity is a combination of credentials that manages a computer user's authentication, authorization and access rights.
• A digital identity is the combination of the cryptographic keys and the certificate. A digital identity is a file, stored on a hard disk or some other external device (ex: Smartcard, USB-Token).
  The cryptographic keys, is what it is all about. You could consider the certificate as the packaging for the keys which allow for verifying the validity and, to a certain extend, the correctness of the information.
• ‘Digital identity refers to the set of digital information—including user IDs, passwords, access control lists, public-key certificates, and voiceprint patterns—that is associated with a particular individual.”

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• 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.

• As more and more devices get interconnected, people and things are   performing more tasks. As a result, access is increasingly demanded for any   device, anywhere, anytime, and this has clear security implications.   Potentially, it puts at risk individual identities as well as personal,   corporate and government information.
• solutions that protect and enhance   digital identities, assets and interactions, based on a combination of   secure personal devices, software platforms, and services.
• Digital Security

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• relates to a person's well-being and safety online, technically meaning on the computer and on the internet. Also what precautions could be taken to prevent one from any possible dangers on the internet.
• one protects themselves by remembering to not share all their personal information such as their whereabouts and phone numbers.

• Identity management and the protection of sensitive personal and corporate data are top priorities for many organizations today. But there are steep challenges to overcome when securing digital assets, such as: access control; compliance with ever-changing regulations; the disappearing security boundary around the enterprise; as well as more stringent security expectations from partners and customers.

• ritical thinking is a desire to seek, patience to doubt, fondness to  meditate, slowness to assert, readiness to consider, carefulness  to dispose and set in order; and hatred for every kind of imposture.
    ~ Francis Bacon (1605)

• Summary of critical thinking:

   
   
  • Determine the facts of a new situation or   subject without prejudice
   
  • Place these facts and information in a   pattern so that you can understand them
   
  • Accept or reject the source values and   conclusions based upon your experience,   judgment, and beliefs

• 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.
• It entails the examination of those structures or elements of thought implicit in all reasoning: purpose, problem, or question-at-issue; assumptions; concepts; empirical grounding; reasoning leading to conclusions; implications and consequences; objections from alternative viewpoints; and frame of reference.

• the development of critical thinking skills and dispositions is a life-long endeavor.
• Critical thinking is self-guided, self-disciplined thinking which attempts to reason at the highest level of quality in a fair-minded way.
• They strive to improve the world in whatever ways they can and contribute to a more rational, civilized society.    At the same time, they recognize the complexities often inherent in doing so.   They avoid thinking simplistically about complicated issues and strive to appropriately consider the rights and needs of relevant others.  

• Critical thinking is that mode of thinking - about any subject, content, or problem - in which the thinker improves the quality of his or her thinking by skillfully taking charge of the structures inherent in thinking and
  imposing intellectual standards upon them.

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• • to steal and pass off (the ideas or words of another) as one's own
  • to use (another's production) without crediting the source
  • to commit literary theft
  • to present as new and original an idea or product derived from an existing source

• plagiarism is an act of fraud. It involves both stealing someone else's work and lying about it afterward.
• The expression of original ideas is considered intellectual property and is protected by copyright laws, just like original inventions. Almost all forms of expression fall under copyright protection as long as they are recorded in some way (such as a book or a computer file).
• • turning in someone else's work as your own
  • copying words or ideas from someone else without giving credit
  • failing to put a quotation in quotation marks
  • giving incorrect information about the source of a quotation
  • changing words but copying the sentence structure of a source without giving credit
  • copying so many words or ideas from a source that it makes up the majority of your work, whether you give credit or not (see our section on "fair use" rules)
• by citing sources
• avoided
• providing your audience with the information necessary to find that source is usually enough to prevent plagiarism.

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• “the deliberate or reckless representation of another’s words, thoughts, or ideas as one’s own without attribution in connection with submission of academic work, whether graded or otherwise.”
• form of cheating

• citing the sources for your building block ideas. Providing appropriate citations will also help readers who are interested in your topic find additional, related material to read—in this way, they will be able to build on the work you have done to find sources.

   
• Paraphrasing means taking another person’s ideas and putting those ideas in your own words. Paraphrasing does NOT mean changing a word or two in someone else’s sentence, changing the sentence structure while maintaining the original words, or changing a few words to synonyms. If you are tempted to rearrange a sentence in any of these ways, you are writing too close to the original. That’s plagiarizing, not paraphrasing.

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• plagiarism, which is the uncredited use (both intentional and unintentional) of somebody else's words or ideas.
• A charge of plagiarism can have severe consequences, including expulsion from a university or loss of a job, not to mention a writer's loss of credibility and professional standing.

• Digital Rights and Responsibilities defines the overall rights, responsibilities, freedoms, privileges and behavior expectations in using technology.
• agree to use technology according to an Acceptable Use Policy
• details the rules and regulations you agree to follow when you choose to use that organization’s technology. Some of the things you are agreeing to include using the technology in an ethical way. Some examples might be, not using technology to cheat or not plagiarizing information for a research assignment.
• The AUP

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• 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. Topics included under Digital Rights and Responsibilities include:

   
   
  • 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.