Terms

• 7 Competencies of digital literacy:  

identity and wellbeing, discovery, evaluation, ethics, creativity and scholarship, communication and collaboration, curation. (Prof Noone’s website) 

• Search query: 

 a word or phrase to find information (code.org) 

• Natural Language query: 

 a search written in a way people speak. (code.org) 

• Spider:  

A program used by search engines to scan and index websites across the internet, so they appear in search results. (code.org) 

Digital footprint: a trail of data you leave behind when you use the internet. 

• 5 Basic Computer Components:  

motherboard, CPU, RAM, storage, and power supply. (Prof Noone’s website) 

• What is a file:  

A container that stores your information. (Prof Noone’s website) 

• File extension:  

The suffix at the end of a file name. (Prof Noone’s website) 

• Saas:  

A software delivery model in which applications are accessed over the internet rather than installed. (SIMpath) 

• Digital bubble:  

It is when the algorithm shows you information that matches your interests. (Prof Noone’s website) 

• Generative AI:  

An artificial intelligence capable of creating text, images, and code. (Prof Noone’s Website) 

• Prompt:  

An instruction given to the AI. (Prof Noone’s website) 

• Difference between internet and web: 

The internet is the network (the infrastructure), whereas the web is the content of the network. (Prof Noone’s website) 

• Browser:  

An application used to access and view websites on the web. (Prof Noone’s website) 

• URL: 

 A unique address used to locate a webpage on the internet. (Prof Noone’s website) 

Lesson Learned:

In this unit, I learned how to be digitally literate.