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Cyber Literate

Cyber Literate. Mohammad Abbas Alamdar Teacher of ICT STS Ajman – Boys School. Learning Objectives. Identify 21 st Digital technology and know how to use it in a Learning and working environment. Understand that the current digital technologies and their role towards modern civilisation.

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Cyber Literate

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  1. Cyber Literate Mohammad Abbas Alamdar Teacher of ICT STS Ajman – Boys School

  2. Learning Objectives • Identify 21st Digital technology and know how to use it in a Learning and working environment. • Understand that the current digital technologies and their role towards modern civilisation. • Apply appropriate etiquettes and management of digital communication and social networks tools. • To promote the positive use of digital media.

  3. What is Computer/Digital Literacy ? • Literacy means to be able to know how to read and write. • Computer Literacy or Digital Literacy means to know how to use a computer, any electronic device and the internet.

  4. Learning Outcome • Understand the meaning of Digital Literacy. • Understand that the current digital technologies and their role towards modern civilisation. • Apply appropriate etiquettes and management of digital communication and social networks tools. • To promote the positive use of digital media.

  5. The new way • There are now new ways of doing things, for example; • Cable Connection – Wireless Connection • Physical Interaction – Virtual Interaction • Content Users – Content Creators • 2 Dimension – 3 Dimension • Slow Transmission – High Speed Transmission • Manual - Automatic

  6. Example of 21 century Literacy tools

  7. Lets have a look at the video • Show video e-literate video 1

  8. Communication • China hits 432 million mobile phone users - The most mobile phone users of any single country in the world – InfoWorld.com • Internet equipped - social networking site connection, e-mail access, browse the Internet, etc.. • GPS Application Installed • Video Calling – Tele-Conference • 3G – 3GS – 4G? • Window based application

  9. Have a look at this...

  10. The Internet • Worldwide connected computer and server - Millions of data, picture, files, image, music, video and lot more were store on servers and users all over the world can view, download, upload, copy and etc. • Vital Instrument- industries, educational institutions, small & medium business and even for home usage. • Get things done faster and effective – video conference, e-mails, instant messaging and etc… • Fast growing Users - It took 38 years for radio to reach 50 million users, 13 years for TV, and only 5 years for the Internet - CyberAtlas.com

  11. Knowledge Check • What is Literacy ? • What is Digital Literacy ? • What is communication ? • What tools do we use today to communicate ? • Which country has the most mobile phone users ? • Which features allow us to communicate with our mobile phones ?

  12. Answers • Literacy means to know how to read and write. • Digital literacy is knowing how to use technology, computers and the internet. • Communication is a way of interacting with others. • Internet, MSN, social networks, WiFi, smart phones ,net books, etc. • China with over 4 billion users – the majority of them communicate via text. • The features which allows us to communicate are WiFi, GPS, Video calling, text , BBM, 3G.

  13. Making the internet yours • Real Community Vs Virtual Community • Content User Vs Content Creator • Social Networking Site – Facebook , Twitter, Friendster – Facebookestimated 375 million users by year end 2009 and the numbers keep rising • Tremendous impact on current social – people communicate and interact -share their opinion, feelings, pictures, diary and etc. to their virtual community. • Blog - Allow millions of people to publish and share their ideas with many millions of readers - 7.4 million active blogs throughout the world.

  14. Lets watch a video • e_literate_vo2

  15. Popularity

  16. Semantic Web & Search engines Semantic Web is the internet understanding the way we write statement, for example; • Abu Dhabi is the UAE • UAE is in the Arabian Gulf • Messi plays football for Barcelona Search engines allow us to; • Find information that we need • Google, yahoo, Ask Jeeves and many more.

  17. Lets watch a video • E-Literate Video 3

  18. Smart Objects • There are many smart objects existing around us all the time. • A smart object is an object which contains a chip. • This chip runs a program and allows the object to operate. • For example, • A Bank card • Passports • ID Cards • Watch E-Literate Video 4

  19. Online Application • Current Trend – Institutions, government bodies, industries, schools, NGO and etc. • Fastest way to get information to the public • E-Business – where online business deal were done – ebay , alibaba…. • E-Government – government own portal – public to view current government initatives and program – submit forms – application • E-Career – online job hunting – job match making • E-Learning – LMS – education portal

  20. Challenges of Digital Literacy • Online Fraud • Identity theft • Misuse of anonymity • Freedom of speech • Content not suitable for under 18 years old • Internet addiction • Cyber bullying E-Literate Video 5 and 6

  21. Internet Guidelines • Do not respond to people that you don’t know • Do not open email attachments from people that you don't know. • Do not look at adult material. • Do not give out passwords to people. • Keep you personal information safe. • Maintain good ethical behaviour. • E-literate Video 8

  22. Knowledge Check • What must you do if someone that you don't know tries to contact you ? • Why must not we give out personal information ? • What are the dangers of social networking ? • How do you maintain good behaviour on the internet ?

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