ismail ross's List: DGL Vocabulary

• Researchers use the term digital immigrant to classify people born before the introduction of digital technology.
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  or Digital Immigrants, the popular technology for them was radio, television, newspapers, books, and magazines.
• some Digital Immigrants created the digital technology used by Digital Natives.
• If you are a Digital Immigrant, it does not mean you are automatically technically inept. You can actually be very technically astute.
• Avoiders.
• Reluctant Adopters.
• Eager Adopters.
• Digitial Immigrants can never become Digital Natives because they were not born after the introduction of digital technology
• Eager Adopters, however, are clearly the class Digital Immigrants that can relate more closely to most Digital Natives.

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• Digital immigrants are believed to be less quick to pick up new technologies than digital natives.
• 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, but there is a belief that early exposure to technology fundamentally changes the way people learn.
• North America, most people born prior to 1980 are considered digital immigrants.
• Those closer to the cutoff are sometimes called digital intermediates, which means they started using digital technology in their early teens and thus are closer to digital natives in terms of their understanding and abilities.

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• Multimodality is an inter-disciplinary approach that understands communication and representation to be more than about language
• multimodality assumes that resources are socially shaped over time to become meaning making resources that articulate the (social, individual/affective) meanings demanded by the requirements of different communities
• The systematic description of modes and their semiotic resources
• Multimodal investigation of interpretation and interaction with specific digital environments

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• A "meme" is a virally-transmitted cultural symbol or social idea.
• that would travel via word of mouth, usually as a mesmerizing story, a fable/parable, a joke, or an expression of speech. Today, memes travel much faster than simple speech. As internet email forwards, instant messages, and web page links, memes now travel instantly via the Internet
• Meme" comes from the Greek word "mimema" (meaning "something imitated",

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• MEME is "An idea that spreads like a virus by word of mouth, email, blogs etc"

• Social networking is based on a certain structure that allow people to both express their individuality and meet people with similar interests.
• Profile. This is where you tell the world about yourself.
• Friends are trusted members of the site that are allowed to post comments on your profile or send you private messages.
• keep tabs on how your friends are using social networking, such as when they post a new picture or update their profile.
• Most social networks use groups to help you find people with similar interests or engage in discussions on certain topics.
• A popular way of letting your personality shine through is by gracing your social networking profile with web widgets.
• Social Networking is a nice form of entertainment, great for meeting people with similar interests, and can be a very effective business technique for entrepreneurs, writers, actors, musicians or artists.

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• Social networking, also referred to as social media, encompasses many Internet-based tools that make it easier for people to listen, interact, engage and collaborate with each other. Social networking platforms such as Facebook, MySpace, YouTube, LinkedIn, Twitter, blogs, message boards, Wikipedia and countless others are catching on like wildfire.
• social networking is interactive.
• You can also build communities based on common interests, causes and concerns.
• Blogs are sites that people set up to provide information and opinions about events, ideas or anything else they want to discuss
• social networking site where you can set up a profile, join different communities, and connect with friends
• Small businesses can use social networking for many practical purposes. You can use these tools (which are usually free) to locate experts and find information, pose questions and get answers

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• Social networking is the grouping of individuals into specific groups, like small rural communities or a neighborhood subdivision,
• social networking is possible in person, especially in the workplace, universities, and high schools, it is most popular online
• . Social networking websites function like an online community of internet users
• , social networking often  involves grouping specific individuals or organizations together.
• By being aware of your cyber-surroundings and who you are talking to, you should be able to safely enjoy social networking online
• Once you are well informed and comfortable with your findings, you can begin your search from hundreds of networking communities to join.

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• The field of ethics (or moral philosophy) involves systematizing, defending, and recommending concepts of right and wrong behavior.
• areas: metaethics, normative ethics, and applied ethics.
• Normative ethics takes on a more practical task, which is to arrive at moral standards that regulate right and wrong conduct

• This may involve articulating the good habits that we should acquire, the duties that we should follow, or the consequences of our behavior on others. Finally, applied ethics involves examining specific controversial issues, such as abortion, infanticide, animal rights, environmental concerns, homosexuality, capital punishment, or nuclear war.

   

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• The study of principles relating to right and wrong conduct

• essential element of independent learning identified in the review was positive

  relationships between teachers and

  student

  s, based on trust
• greater

  student

  awareness of their limitations and

  their ability to manage them

• ‘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;
• t 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;
• independent learning is a term used frequently in higher education:
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  ind out their expectations of the course – how are they expecting to be taught, assessed and how do they expect to facilitate their own learning.

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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”
• e encouraging and enabling our students to become self-directed in their learning experiences and to have more autonomy and control over their learning. 
• Making decisions about what to study and when
• Learners learning at their own pace
• teachers can act as facilitator, mentor, coach and guide are by:
• Independent learners have abilities that will stand them in good stead both during and beyond their education such as their ability to:
• Giving pupils choices so they can reflect on their own interests and preferences
• • Encouraging group work so that learners can learn from each other
   
  • Collaborate with pupils to set shared learning goals
   
  • Involve pupils in lesson planning

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• “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 entail an emerging set of digitally mediated practices, characterized by collaborative communicative action within organically developing, cross-medial infrastructures. We argue that computers are increasingly turning from tools into (collaborative) media in everyday use, and that this shift poses a significant challenge to the discipline of interaction design. Particularly prominent aspects of the challenge include the way design processes are conceptualized and structured, and the way in which communicative perspectives take precedence over instrumental ones.

• Collaborative Media creates highly interactive, integrated, and dynamic platforms for sharing knowledge, insights, and resources, and is dedicated to building deep relationships through its professional communities.

• users should expect that if they post information to a site (whether it is a poem, a picture, a song, or some other form of original research or creative expression), others will enjoy it without vandalizing it, passing it off as their own, or using it as a pretext to threaten or harass.
• Using online material ethically, including citing sources and requesting permissions
   - Reporting cyberbullies, threats, and other inappropriate use
   - Following Responsible Use policies and using technology responsibly both inside and outside school
• Using copyrighted material
   - Using material from the internet without properly citing the source
   - Violating the RUP

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• 7.   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.

• being a good digital citizen includes respecting others and oneself
• For example, just about any adul
• Strike the word "digital" and we're left with the word "citizen"
• Clearly "any other media" includes the Internet which means that, by international law, children have codified rights when it comes to what they can read and what they can say."
• parents have rights and responsibilities too, including the responsibility to protect children from danger as well as their own indiscretions.
• he United States seems to have more respect for the rights of parents, schools and authorities than it does for the rights of children. And this includes control over what children can see and where they can express themselves by limiting access to certain websites including (in the case of schools) social networking sites.

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• plagiarism is defined as “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
• it is considered a form of cheating
• your instructors want to distinguish between the building block ideas borrowed from other people and your own newly reasoned perspectives or conclusions.
• . 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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• There are some actions that can almost unquestionably be labeled plagiarism. Some of these include buying, stealing, or borrowing a paper
• hiring someone to write your paper for you
• copying large sections of text from a source without quotation marks or proper citation
• using the words of a source too closely when paraphrasing
• building on someone's ideas without citing their spoken or written work

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