Digital Literacy & The Internet

Let's we explore the ability to use information and communication technologies to find, evaluate, create, and communicate information, requiring both cognitive and technical skills.

A computer is an electronic device, operating under the control of instructions stored in its own memory

(input > process > output)

• Laptop
• Server
• Tablet
• Desktop

Mobile and game devices

• Smartphone
• Digital camera
• Portable media player
• E-book reader
• Game console

Data and Information

Internet

Connecting a computer to any other computer anywhere in the world via dedicated routers and servers

Browser

A computer program (such as Internet Explorer or Mozilla Firefox) that enables internet users to access, navigate, and search World Wide Web site

Search Engine

A computer program that searches databases and internet sites for the documents containing keywords specified by a user (Google, Yahoo)

Online Social Network

Switches and routers use a variety of protocols and algorithms to exchange information and to transport data to its intended endpoint

• Twitter
• Instagram
• Facebook

Digital Safety and Security

Important to protects the device, Green Computing present the action to reduce the electricity consumed by the computer

Programs and App

Technology

The application of scientific knowledge for practical purposes (industry)

Technology integration allows us to be competitive users in a huge society. The more we know, the more we will stand out for future (employers and client)

INTERNET

DEFINITION :
worldwide collection of networks that links millions of businesses, government agencies, educational institutions, and individuals

CONNECTION TO INTERNET:

An Internet service provider (ISP) is a business that provides individuals and organizations access to the Internet free or for a fee. (Unifi,TM,Celcom)

World Wide Web (WWW) 

Consists of a worldwide collection of electronic documents (webpages)

A website is a collection of related webpages and associated items

A web server is a computer that delivers requested webpages to your computer

MEDIA ON THE WEB

• Virtual reality (VR) is the use of computers to simulate a real or imagined environment that appears as a three-dimensional space (example; space capsule)
• An animation is the appearance of motion (image in sequence)
• An infographic is a visual representation of data and information, simplify the complex concept
• Other services;

- Email is the transmission of messages and files via a computer network

- An email list is a group of email addresses used for mass distribution of a message

- FTP (File Transfer Protocol) is an Internet standard that permits file uploading and downloading to and from other computers on the Internet

Netiquette is the code of acceptable Internet behavior

- VoIP (Voice over IP) enables users to speak to other users over the Internet (Viber, WhatsApp, Skype)