Terms 

What are the 7 Competencies of Digital Literacy? 

1. Identity and well-being 

2. Discovery 

3. Evaluation 

4. Ethics 

5. Creativity and scholarship 

6. Communication and collaboration 

7. Curation 

Search Query 

words that are typed into a search engine in order to get information 

Natural Language Query 

capability that enables users to ask questions within their analytics platforms, using ordinary human language instead of query language 

Spider (as related to the World Wide Web) 

a program designed to crawl over the World Wide Web, the portion of the Internet, most familiar to general users, and retrieve locations of webpages 

Digital Footprint 

“Digital shadow” is the unique trail of data that a person/business creates while using the Internet 

What are the 5 basic computer components? 

1. Motherboard 

2. CPU 

3. RAM 

4. Storage 

5. Power supply 

What is a file as it relates to computers? 

a container that stores information on your computer 

File Extension 

a short extension, following a period at the end of their name that identifies the type of file 

Zip File 

compress file for format allowing you to group files and reduce their size to share/transport them easier 

Saas 

software as a service-cloud based software 

Digital Bubble 

algorithms shape what you see online so closely that you become isolated from different views/broader information 

Generative AI 

AI that creates new content rather than just analyzing/predicting from existing data 

Prompt (as related to AI) 

the instruction you give to an AI 

What is the difference between the Internet and the WWW? 

Internet is the infrastructure. The World Wide Web is what you use on top of the Internet 

Browser 

the app you use to access the web 

URL 

an address for a specific resource on the web