UNIT 1

• Digital Literacy Competences: Identify and Wellbeing, Discovery, Evaluation, Ethics, Creativity and Scholarship, Communication and Collaboration, and Curation (Brightspace)

• Search Query: The text you enter into a search engine

• Natural Language Query: Allows users to interact with databases/search engines using human language

• Spider: A program/bot that crawls through websites and collects information

• Digital Footprint: The information about a person that exists on the internet

• Computer Components: Motherboard, CPU, RAM, Hard Drive, Power Supply (Brightspace)

• File: A collection of data on a computer

• File Extension: A suffix that identifies a file type and its format

• ZIP File: A file containing multiple compressed files for storage or fast sharing

• SAAS: Software over the internet that is operated on a subscription basis instead of it being installed/purchased

• Digital Bubble: Isolation that results from personalized filtering of information

• Generative AI: AI that creates new context by learning patterns from existing information

• Prompt: Text input given to AI to produce output

• The Internet vs. WWW: The Internet refers to the global computer network while the World Wide Web is a service that runs within the Internet and provides web pages and media

• Browser: A software application for accessing info on the web

• URL: Uniform Resource Locator; The address of a unique resource on the Internet

**Unless sourced otherwise, all term definitions came from searching up the term and adding "defintion" to the text**