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a digital native as a person who understands the value of digital technology and uses this to seek out opportunities for implementing it with a view to make an impact.

Marc Prensky coined the term digital native in his work Digital Natives, Digital Immigrants published in 2001

A viral video is a video that becomes popular through the process of Internet sharing, typically through video sharing websites, social media and email.[

Viral videos often contain humorous content and include televised comedy sketches, such as The Lonely Island's "Lazy Sunday" and "Dick in a Box", Numa Numa[2][3] videos, The Evolution of Dance,[4] Chocolate Rain[5]

Wikipedia -- “Collaboration refers abstractly to all processes wherein people work together.” Oxford Dictionary -- “United labour, co-operation; especially in literary, artistic or scientific work.” Webster -- “To work jointly with others or together especially in an intellectual endeavor.”

wiki means a collaborative website that can be directly edited using only a web browser.

Collaboration is working with each other to do a task.[1] It is a recursive[2] process where two or more people or organizations work together to realize shared goals, (this is more than the intersection of common goals seen in co-operative ventures, but a deep, collective, determination to reach an identical objective[by whom?][original research?]) — for example, an intriguing[improper synthesis?] endeavor[3][4] that is creative in nature[5]—by sharing knowledge, learning and building consensus. Most collaboration requires leadership, although the form of leadership can be social within a decentralized and egalitarian group.[6] In particular, teams that work collaboratively can obtain greater resources, recognition and reward when facing competition for finite resources.[7] Collaboration is also present in opposing goals exhibiting the notion of adversarial collaboration, though this is not a common case for using the word.

Geotechnical engineering is the branch of civil engineering concerned with the engineering behavior of earth materials.

A massive open online course (MOOC) is an online course aiming at large-scale interactive participation and open access via the web. In addition to traditional course materials such as videos, readings, and problem sets, MOOCs provide interactive user forums that help build a community for the students, professors, and TAs. MOOCs are a recent development in distance education and often use open educational resources. Typically they do not offer academic credit or charge tuition fees. Only about 10% of the tens of thousands of students who may sign up complete the course

As technology has advanced, the way in which privacy is protected and violated has changed with it.

New technologies can also create new ways to gather private information.

Another technique of concealing facts, or censorship, is also used if the group can affect such control. When channels of information cannot be completely closed, they can be rendered useless by filling them with disinformation, effectively lowering their signal-to-noise ratio and discrediting the opposition by association with many easily disproved false claims.

The ability to locate, organize, understand, evaluate, and analyze information using digital technology.

Digitally literate people can communicate and work more efficiently, especially with those who possess the same knowledge and skills.

A person using these skills to interact with society may be called a digital citizen.

evails in the domains of cyberspace, and is defined as a set of data that uniquely describes a person or a thing (sometimes referred to as subject or entity) and contains information about the subject's relationships to other entities

is a psychological identity that pr

is a type of information security affecting all aspects of digital communication, including computers and the internet, telecommunications, financial transactions, transportation, healthcare, and secure access.

"to recognize and use that power, to manipulate and transform digital media, to distribute pervasively, and to easily adapt them to new forms"

the marrying of the two terms digital and literacy