John Powell's List: dgl vocabulary

• 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.

• ocial literacy starts at a very young age when children begin to communicate. “Communication and the sharing of information, experience, and expertise is literally at students’ fingertips —and they know it! As they integrate [technologies] into their lives, new kinds of communities are emerging, new cultural norms and boundaries are solidifying, and new kinds of crime, poverty, and warfare are developing” (http://nflrc.iastate.edu/news/200601/homepage.html).

• Privacy is our right to freedom from unauthorized intrusion. People are starting to wonder if the dawn of the Internet era foretells the doom of personal privacy, due to the widespread use of e-mail, cookies, cell phones, and spyware, as well as checkout scanners, electronic tollbooths, closed-circuit surveillance cameras, and other monitoring technologies. All of these make it extremely easy to gather enormous amounts of information about individuals.

• • ‘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

• Definition: “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. Read the open-access article Designing Collaborative Media: A Challenge for CHI? as an introduction to the concept.

• he Indiana University Code of Student  Rights, Responsibilities, and Conduct (2005) indicates that students may be disciplined for several different kinds  of academic misconduct. These include cheating, fabrication, plagiarism, interference,  and violation of course rules.

• Many people think of plagiarism as copying another's work or borrowing someone else's original ideas. But terms like "copying" and "borrowing" can disguise the seriousness of the offense:

  According to the Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, to "plagiarize" means

  • 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

  In other words, plagiarism is an act of fraud. It involves both stealing someone else's work and lying about it afterward.

• Digital Security means to protect information. It deals with the prevention and detection of unauthorized actions by users of a computer.This definition by nature, implies the necessity to clearly understand the true value of an organizations proprietary information. It also means that all employees, managers and executives must understand how information might be compromised.

• • “Digital identity“ is the sum of all digitally 
    available information about an individual. It is 
    becoming increasingly complete and traceable, 
    driven by the exponential growth of available 
    data and the big data capabilities to process it
• •  “Digital identity“ is the sum of all digitally 
    available information about an individual. It is 
    becoming increasingly complete and traceable, 
    driven by the exponential growth of available 
    data and the big data capabilities to process it.

• Digital Citizenship is a concept which helps teachers, technology leaders and parents to understand what students/children/technology users should know to use technology appropriately. Digital Citizenship is more than just a teaching tool; it is a way to prepare students/technology users for a society full of technology. Digital citizenship is the norms of appropriate, responsible technology use.  Too often we are seeing students as well as adults misusing and abusing technology but not sure what to do. The issue is more than what the users do not know but what is considered appropriate technology usage.

• • Digital lit. Make first on list of vocabulary.
• • 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

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• The privileges all digital technology users have and the expected behaviors that go along with those privileges.  

  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.

• What, then, is ethics? Ethics is two things. First, ethics refers to   well
• founded standards of right and wrong that prescribe what humans ought   to do, usually in terms of rights, obligations, benefits to society, fairness,   or specific virtues. Ethics, for example, refers to those standards that   impose the reasonable obligations to refrain from rape, stealing, murder,   assault, slander, and fraud. Ethical standards also include those that   enjoin virtues of honesty, compassion, and loyalty. And, ethical standards   include standards relating to rights, such as the right to life, the right   to freedom from injury, and the right to privacy. Such standards are adequate   standards of ethics because they are supported by consistent and well-founded reasons.

• The core principles of integrity create a foundation for success in all of life's endeavors. Integrity in academic settings is a fundamental component of success and growth in the classroom. It prepares students for personal and professional challenges as well as providing a blueprint for future fulfillment and success.

• Definition of 'Social Networking'

    The use of internet-based social media programs to make connections with friends, family, classmates, customers and clients. Social networking can be done for social purposes, business purposes or both. The programs show the associations between individuals and facilitate the acquisition of new contacts. Examples of social networking have included Facebook, LinkedIn, Classmates.com and Yelp.
  

• What started as a word that haunted college professor’s dreams has quickly become the U.S. Government’s worst nightmare. The word wiki is associated with some of the most useful, misleading, powerful, and pointless websites on the World Wide Web.

  The word that is currently inciting political chaos on multiple continents, ironically originates in the United States’s foremost vacation paradise: Hawaii. Back in 1994 computer programmer, Ward Cunningham, hopped aboard the Wiki-Wiki Shuttle at Honolulu Airport in Oahu, HI, to travel in between terminals.

  When translated to English the Hawaiian term literally means “quick.” By 1995 Cunningham had implemented the word into Internet culture by creating the first wiki, WikiWikiWeb, little did he know he created a monster.

• an internet information generator, especially of random or contentless information  
  

• The digital native-immigrant concept describes the generational switchover where people are defined by the technological culture which they're familiar with.

   

  Read more: China looks to lead the Internet of Things

   

  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.