Digital Citizenship POE
Friday, 27 May 2016
Question 7
Question 7
2015’s top 5 cybersecurity risks in South Africa
1. Beware of ransomware
2. The Internet of things
3. Cyber
espionage
4. Cyber theft increasing
5. Insecure passwords
How do they do it?
1. The hacker must learn programming language
2. The hacker must know their target
3.
Use
a *nix terminal for commands
4. Secure the machine you will be using to hack
5. Test the target
6. Determine the recipients operating system
7. Find a specific path into their machine
Question 3: The social economy
Question 3: The social economy
Digital
Communication Defined as we understand is the ability to create persuasive communications in different
media. This can include websites, video, audio, text, or even animated multimedia. Digital communication is a
foundation skill for most careers today
as is very essential that everyone goes for training but more importantly knows
how to use its resources. It should start in Pre School and be taught all the
way up to higher education such as UCT. Students can learn a variety of digital communication skills across all their
courses. This means they will learn all what is needed whether they build multimedia presentations to
demonstrate their knowledge of academic
subjects, create e-portfolios of coursework, or present ideas in a virtual classroom. (Classle-Social learning
with online courses & books. 2016).
There is no doubt that
technology has brought change and also social change. Technology has allowed
trade between countries to take place, which generates money. Now unfortunately
this means that a social divide of wealth will begin to take place. As a
consequence of this, a gap between the rich and poor will begin to immerse.
This will allow the rich to have access to new technologies and allow them to
keep getting rich. This will always end up in a downward spiral for those less
fortunate. Crime will increase which can clearly be seen in Cape Town and all
of South Africa for that matter.
All in all technology leads
to the alienation of people in a country irrespective of the idea that we are
all born free and equal.
Question 2
Question 2
Information Fluency is a
model that builds on the skills of traditional digital literacy, integrating
technology with domain of specific knowledge, critical thinking, presentation,
participation and communication skills. All of this promotes understanding.
Digital
Information Fluency gives us the ability to find, evaluate and use the digital
information effectively, efficiently and ethically. As discussed previously
with regards to children having access online which result in them being
exposed and vulnerable. Digital Information Fluency involves knowing how
digital information is different from print information. This is basically a
hard copy of information and having the skills to use specialized tools for
finding digital information. This involves using technology such as a laptop to
find saved documents. In order for information fluency to perform optimally it
means teachers and librarians must develop these specific skills and teach them
to students which will in turn allow students to become better equipped to
achieve their information needs. (Full
Circle Kit. 2016).
So why is this important? We
must understand that at home, at school and in the
workplace, digital information is beginning to compete with print as the
primary format for information. Only 2 % of new information created today
appears in print format.(21st Century
Information Fluency. 2016). As a
result of this, Digital Information Fluency allows us to locate, evaluate and
ethically use that information. We live in a century where information improves
our lives, personally, educationally, socially and economically. People without
the skills to use digital information will become increasingly disadvantaged weather
it is at home, at school and in the workplace.
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