Chapter 1 : DIGITAL LITERACY
means
- Digital literacy is the set of competencies required for full participation in a knowledge society. It includes knowledge, skills, and behaviors involving the effective use of digital devices such as smartphones, tablets, laptops and desktop PCs for purposes of communication, expression, collaboration and advocacy.
computers
mobile and game devices
data and information
| Data | Information | |
|---|---|---|
| Meaning | Data is raw, unorganized facts that need to be processed. Data can be something simple and seemingly random and useless until it is organized. | When data is processed, organized, structured or presented in a given context so as to make it useful, it is called information. |
| Example | Each student's test score is one piece of data. | The average score of a class or of the entire school is information that can be derived from the given data. |
| Etymology | "Data" comes from a singular Latin word, datum, which originally meant "something given." Its early usage dates back to the 1600s. Over time "data" has become the plural of datum. | "Information" is an older word that dates back to the 1300s and has Old French and Middle English origins. It has always referred to "the act of informing, " usually in regard to education, instruction, or other knowledge communication. |
the internet
- browser
- search engine
- online social network
digital safety and security
- virus and other malware
- privacy
- healthy concern
- environmental issues
program and apps
- Applications software (also called end-user programs) include such things as database programs, word processors, Web browsers and spreadsheets. Figuratively speaking, applications software sits on top of systemssoftware because it is unable to run without the operating system and system utilities.
communications and networks
- Data communications refers to the transmission of this digital data between two or more computers and a computer network or data network is a telecommunications network that allows computers to exchange data.
technology users
- home users
- small/home office users
- mobile user
- power user
- enterprise user
Chapter 2 : THE INTERNET
means
means
- The Internet is the global system of interconnected computer networks that use the Internet protocol suite (TCP/IP) to link devices worldwide. It is a network of networks that consists of private, public, academic, business, and government networks of local to global scope, linked by a broad array of electronic, wireless, and optical networking technologies. The Internet carries an extensive range of information resources and services, such as the inter-linked hypertext documents and applications of the World Wide Web (WWW), electronic mail, telephony, and file sharing.
connecting to the internet
- To open Network Connections, click Start, click Control Panel, click Network and Internet Connections, and then click Network Connections. If your DSL or cable modem is always connected and your ISP does not require a user name and password, you do not need to run the New Connection Wizard.
- The World Wide Web (abbreviated WWW or the Web) is an information space where documents and other webresources are identified by Uniform Resource Locators (URLs), interlinked by hypertext links, and can be accessed via the Internet. English scientist Tim Berners-Lee inventedthe World Wide Web in 1989.
media on the website
- graphic
- animation
- audio
- video
- virtual reality
other internet services
- email program
- instant messaging
- chat
- discussion forum
- voIP
- FTP
netiquette
- the code of acceptable internet behavior
