Digital Native

• Digital Native - a person born or brought up during the age of digital technology and therefore familiar with computers and the internet from an early age
• Digital Native - a person born or brought up and familiar with digital technology
• WWW stands for world wide web, W3 or The Web 
• WWW is the interconnectedness of systems, interconnected system of public web pages accessible through the internet and is invented by sir Tim Berners-Lee in 1989
• Sr. Tim Berners-Lee invented the world wide web in 1989
• web pages are what make up the www and can be dynamic (web 2.0) and static (plain)
• web 1.0 - static website what you see is what you get and is not interactive, you can't post comments
• web 2.0 - collaborative, many people can use, shows related articles and studies and all the information you need
• web 3.0 - also called as the semantic web it's about semantics; the ability of web technologies to understand and interpret human generated content or ai
• social media - this application started together with the web 2.0 and are used for communicating and socializing with other application users and virtual communities and networks
• social media - allows users to create and exchange user generated information
• social media platforms - contain different formats. some of these forms of social media are blogs, enterprise social networks, forums, photo sharing sites, special interest groups, social games, social networks and video sharing
• effectiveness of social media application - can be measured by its virality, which is defined as the rate of reposting or sharing photos, pieces of information or ideas published in one's social media profile or page
• the main benefactors of social media application are: business, non-profit organizations, and special interest groups that use online marketing and campaigns through these social media sites
• research and information seeking -one of the ideal application lay down for ict and www is for research and education. since web 1.0 the main objectives of internet sites are to share and disseminate information
• information sources: web search engines, research indexing sites, massive open online course or mooc, employment websites, electronic commerce or e-commerce
• web search engines - programs designed to search or mine the www based on keyboards provided by the user
• web search engines

  • they return search results such as websites, files, photos or being media files
  • examples are bing, Google, yahoo
• research indexing sites

  • websites dedicated to compile and index research done by academic researchers, engineers, social sciences and so on
  • examples are IEEE, Xplore, Google Scholar, and Research Gate
• massive open online course (mooc)

  • websites dedicated to teach and inform users focused on different areas. the delivery of information is similar to classroom lecture setup, where in lectures and assignments are delivered and submitted respectively online
  • examples are coursera, edx
• employment websites

  • websites that enable companies to post job vacancies and also accommodate job seekers by providing a resume submission facility
• employment websites

  • important feature is the ability to match qualification of the applicant and the required qualification in a certain job vacancy
  • examples are job street, jobs, and bestjobs
• electronic commerce (e-commerce)

  • this is a technology that uses electronic means to trade products and currencies
  • it also includes any technology that introduces ease and business management and customer convenience.
• ways to check credibility and authenticity:

  • published author's name
  • credible websites
  • rating number of viewers and number of shares
  • reference and related articles
• web 2.0 - used to describe the present generation of the world wide web, also called as the dynamic website
• dynamic website - interactive or the user may be able to comment or create user account
• Darcy Di Nucci - an information architecture consultant, coin the term web 2.0 and her 1999 article called "fragmented future"
• the term was popularized by Tim O'Reilly and Dale Doughenty at the O'Reilly Media Web 2.0 conference in late 2004
• features of web 2.0:

  1. folksonomy
  2. rich user experience
  3. user participation
  4. software as a service
  5. google docs
  6. mass participation
• folksonomy - it allows users to categorize and classify or arrange information using freely chosen keywords
• rich user experience - content is dynamic and is responsive to users input. an example would be a website that shows local content. in the case of social networking sites, when logged on your account is used to modify what you see in their website
• user participation - the owner of the website is not the only one who is able to put content but also the users
• software as a service - users will subscribe to a software only when needed rather than purchasing them
• google docs - is a free web based application that allows the user to create and edit word processing and spreadsheet documents online
• mass participation - it is a diverse information sharing through universal web access. since most users can use the internet web 2.0 content is based on people from various cultures
• semantics - the ability of web technologies to understand and interpret human generated content or ai
• web 3.0 - it aims to have machines understand the users preferences to be able to deliver web contents specifically targeting the user. the internet is able to predict the best possible answers to your question by learning from your previous choices
• ICT (information and communication technology) - deals with the use of different communication technologies such as mobile phones, internet and etc to locate and save