• Bob Dylan went electric at the Newport Folk Festival, performing a rock-and-roll set publicly for the very first time while a chorus of shouts and boos rained down on him from a dismayed audien
• Bob Dylan had recorded the single that marked his move out of acoustic folk and into the idiom of electrified rock and roll
• "Like A Rolling Stone
• Dylan took to the stage with his Fender Stratocaster on the evening of July 25 and launched into an electrified version of "Maggie's Farm."
• new artistic direction

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• Digital immigrants are the opposite of digital natives, who have been interacting with technology from childhood.
• . A commonly used example is that a digital immigrant may prefer to print out a document to edit it by hand rather than doing onscreen editing.
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    Digital immigrants are believed to be less quick to pick up new technologies than digital natives.
• A commonly used example is that a digital immigrant may prefer to print out a document to edit it by hand rather than doing onscreen editing
• Some digital immigrants surpass digital natives in tech savvy,
• The actual classification of people into immigrants and natives is tricky as the adoption of digital technology hasn’t been a unified phenomenon worldwide

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• digital immigrant to classify people born before the introduction of digital technology
• Digital Immigrants, the popular technology for them was radio, television, newspapers, books, and magazines. Digital Immigrants are adapting to the digital technology introduced during their life time

• the process of defining and expanding social groupings to further our aims
• the power of identity in groups

• Rather, it is to acquire a whole set of interdependent conceptual, cognitive, emotional, and motivational dispositions and capacities
• The development of this second nature, as a precondition for a "moral personality", depends on concrete formative processes, most notably the moral education of children, but extending to individuals’ participation in social institutions more broadly.

• “Collaborative media” is the term we use to refer to digital media that enables broad-range participation where the distinctions between production, consumption and design are dissolving.

• Collaborative media refers to digital media where people outside the traditional media industries participate in production as well as infrastructural design.

• The digital native-immigrant concept describes the generational switchover where people are defined by the technological culture which they're familiar with.
• digital natives as those born into an innate "new culture" while the digital immigrants are old-world settlers, who have lived in the analogue age and immigrated to the digital world.

• igital Natives  are the generation born during or after the general introduction of digital technology.
• Digital Natives have an inherent understanding of digital technologies,
• They are part of a tech-savvy generation at the forefront of technological progress

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• A state in which one is not observed or disturbed by other people:
• The state of being free from public attention: a law to restrict newspapers' freedom to invade people’s privacy

• Data privacy, also called information privacy, is the aspect of information technology (IT) that deals with the ability an organization or individual has to determine what data in a computer system can be shared with third parties.
• gives parents control over what information websites can collect from their kids.
• ensures patient confidentiality for all healthcare-related data.

• extends government restrictions on wire taps to include transmissions of electronic data.

    

  Video Privacy Protection Act - prevents wrongful disclosu
• mandates how financial institutions must deal with the private information of individuals.

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• Those freedoms extended to everyone in a digital world - electronic responsibility for actions and deeds
• Those freedoms extended to everyone in a digital world - electronic responsibility for actions and deeds
   
  • AUP (inside and outside of school)
  • Use online material ethically (citing sources)
  • Report cyberbullies and threats
• Those freedoms extended to everyone in a digital world - electronic responsibility for actions and deeds
• Those freedoms extended to everyone in a digital world - electronic responsibility for actions and deeds
• Digital Rights and Responsibilities
• 1. Rights and responsibilities is a key area of internet safety, with out it you leave your self upon to many different online attacks from fraud, to online bullying. The three main areas of rights and responsibilities are AUP, Use online material ethically, Report cyberbullies and threats.
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• multimodality is the mixture of textual, audio, and visual modes in combination with media and materiality to create meaning
• Multimodality has developed as a theory throughout the history of writing. The idea of multimodality has been studied since the 4th century BC, when classical rhetoricians alluded to it with their emphasis on voice, gesture, and expressions in public speaking.^[8][9]

• Academic integrity means honesty and responsibility in scholarship. Students and faculty alike must obey rules of honest scholarship, which means that all academic work should result from an individual's own efforts. Intellectual contributions from others must be consistently and responsibly acknowledged. Academic work completed in any other way is fraudulent.  

   

     

• Academic integrity is the moral code or ethical policy of academia. This includes values such as avoidance of cheating or plagiarism; maintenance of academic standards; honesty and rigor in research and academic publishing.
• Academic integrity is practiced in the majority of educational institutions, it is noted in mission statements and represented in honor codes, but it is also being taught in ethics classes and being noted in syllabuses. Many universities have sections on their websites devoted to academic integrity which define what the term means to their specific institutio

• ‘Independent study is a process, a method and a philosophy of education:
  in which a student acquires knowledge by his or her own efforts and develops the ability for inquiry and critical evaluation;
• it includes freedom of choice in determining those objectives, within the limits of a given project or program and with the aid of a faculty adviser;
• it requires freedom of process to carry out the objectives;
• it places increased educational responsibility on the student for the achieving of objectives and for the value of the goals’.

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• Independent learning is a process, a method and a philosophy of education whereby a learner acquires knowledge by his or her own efforts and develops the ability for enquiry and critical evaluation”
• In practice, most learning involves independent elements such as:
• Finding and collecting information
• • king decisions about what to study and when
   
  • Carrying out investigations or projects
• • earners learning at their own pace using ICT or VLEs
   
  • Completing homework, extension work or coursework assignment

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• That simplicity means that people find them easy to use, just like e-mail and blogs. Like e-mail and blogs, wikis also perform a very useful service in a simple way. A wiki allows a group of people to enter and communally edit bits of text. These bits of text can be viewed and edited by anyone who visits the wiki
• This simplicity and the utter openness of a wiki cause many people to instantly reject the idea. Wikis also seem very strange to many people.
• Ward Cunningham created the first wiki in 1995.

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• Repeating the same factual claims over and over even when people have proven that such claims are contrary to the evidence (for example, the claim that no planes hit the Twin Towers)
  

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  The topic of disinformation is a very complicated one. Essays, lengthy papers and whole treatises have been written on the subject. But the very length of most discussions overwhelms people, so that they never get an accurate picture of what disinformation looks like.
  
  So I thought I'd take a crack at a very simple definition of disinformation, something that is short enough to read in two minutes.
  
  Disinformation is
• Repeating the same factual claims over and over even when people have proven that such claims are contrary to the evidence
• Making knowingly false statements about someone

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