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Janelle Dyer's List: DGL Vocabulary
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Digital Literacy
Digital Literacy is being able to learn, understand, use and communicate using a variety of technology or media.
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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". Digital literacy does not replace traditional forms of literacy, it builds upon the foundation of traditional forms of literacy. Digital literacy is the marrying of the two terms digital and literacy, however, it is much more than a combination of the two terms.
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Digital literacy is the ability to find, evaluate, utilize, share, and create content using information technologies and the Internet
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Digital Citizenship
Digital Citizenship is appropriate and acceptable conduct when using social media and the internet. This is important because it will leave a trail of who you represent and plays a role in your reputation.
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"Digital citizenship" is an umbrella term that covers a whole host of important issues. Broadly, it's the guidelines for responsible, appropriate behavior when one is using technology. But specifically, it can cover anything from "netiquette" to cyberbullying; technology access and the digital divide; online safety and privacy; copyright, plagiarism, and digital law, and more. In fact, some programs that teach digital citizenship have outlined no less than nine elements that intersect to inform a well-equipped digital citizen. It's an overwhelming array of skills to be taught and topics to explore.
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In short, digital citizenship means the ability to use technology safely, responsibly, critically, and pro-actively to contribute to society.
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Digital Identity
Digital Identity is a representation of who you are and your brand online. It speaks volume to your credibility, standards and professionalism.
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Your digital identity is your online reputation. It’s like a resume on the internet that anyone can access. It’s a combination of facts and a more general impression. Every time you access the internet, you are contributing to your digital identity.
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Digital identity is the common thread that allows a brand to not get lost in the many forms of its presence on the internet.
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Digital Law
Digital Law deals with the rights of your personal information online. It protects and restricts technology use in an unethical manner.
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Digital law deals with the ethics of technology. Unethical use manifests itself in form of theft and/or crime. Ethical use manifests itself in the form of abiding by the laws of society. Users need to understand that stealing or cause damage to other people’s work, identity, or property online is a crime. There are certain rules of society that fall under illegal acts. These laws apply to anyone who works or plays online. Hacking into others information, downloading illegal music, plagiarizing, creating destructive worms, viruses or creating Trojan Horses, sending spam, or stealing anyone’s identify or property is unethical.
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Digital Law is defined as the electronic responsibility for actions, deeds which is either ethical or unethical
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Digital Native
Digital Native refers to people who were born at a time when new technology is on the rise.
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The first generation of “Digital Natives” – children who were born into and raised in the digital world – are coming of age, and soon our world will be reshaped in their image. Our economy, our politics, our culture and even the shape of our family life will be forever transformed.
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Prensky defines 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.
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Digital Immigrant
Digital Immigrants are people who were born before the new technology of computers and internet.
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Researchers use the term digital immigrant to classify people born before the introduction of digital technology. For 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. Ironically, some Digital Immigrants created the digital technology used by Digital Natives.
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Digital Immigrants—that is those “who were not born into the digital world,” but who have become “fascinated by and adopted many or most aspects of the new technology.” He further embellishes this analogy by arguing that Digital Immigrants “always retain, to some degree, their “accent,” that is, their foot in the past.” Prensky presents his argument in a tongue-in-cheek manner.
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Wikis
Wiki is an online database created to edit web page content.
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Wiki is web server software that allows users to contribute content. Collaboration is the key to Wiki, which is designed as a powerful system for online communities to build web pages and web sites. Unlike blogs and forums, all users are allowed to contribute and edit existing content. Wiki is derived from the Hawaiian term "wiki wiki" meaning "quick". The concept behind a Wiki is that collaboration on projects will move it along quicker.
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A wiki is a database of pages which visitors can edit live.
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Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs)
Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) is a online resource that offers students to have access to their courses, grades etc on their own. The students can constantly monitor their classes, do assignments and view feedbacks without the physical presence of an instructor.
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Massive Open Online Courses (MOOC) are online classes that educate students through online resources.
Apart from online classes, personal blogs, websites and other Internet applications are used. Students are required to be self taught and aware of the course content in brief. MOOC are free and are looking for a common type of accreditation.
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If you haven’t already heard: MOOCs are the next big thing in education. So what are they? The acronym stands for Massive Open Online Courses. MOOCs don’t require registration or tuition fees and students can sign-up no matter where they live or what their schedules look like. And unlike traditional college courses, there are no classroom caps. With electronic grading, professors can reach an unlimited number of students without doing more work.
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Disinformation
Disinformation is a term used to spread false information deliberately to mislead the public.
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Information that seems truthful, relevant and based on unbiased facts, but has been concocted to mislead the recipient in order to attain fraudulent monetary, military, political, or religious objectives. The information explosion has been continuously shadowed by an almost equally powerful disinformation explosion, especially on the internet.
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Historically, disinformation is an intelligence term meaning purposely giving false information.
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Netiquette
Netiquette is acceptable behavior online when you are interacting.
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"Netiquette" stands for "Internet Etiquette", and refers to the set of practices created over the years to make the Internet experience pleasant for everyone. Like other forms of etiquette, netiquette is primarily concerned with matters of courtesy in communications.
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The code of conduct and unofficial rules that govern online interaction and behavior, it comes from "net" plus "etiquette."
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Geo-technology (Geo-data)
Geo-technology is using our environmental resources and technology to prevent damage and pollution to our future society.
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