Origins of the Internet
This was the first message sent over ARPANET in 1969.
What is "Lo"?
This term refers to the ability to critically analyze, create, and use digital tools effectively.
What is digital literacy?
This principle asserts that ISPs must treat all internet traffic equally without favoring certain websites or services.
What is net neutrality?
This spreadsheet tool is essential for summarizing data into categories and subcategories.
What is a pivot table?
This acronym stands for the global standards for web content accessibility.
What is WCAG (Web Content Accessibility Guidelines)?
This form of malicious software is designed to block access to a system until a ransom is paid.
What is ransomware or cryptolocker?
This innovation, deployed in 1971, was an early form of digital communication over ARPANET that laid the groundwork for internet communication.
What is email?
This digital literacy skill involves the ability to evaluate the reliability and relevance of information in a digital environment.
What is critical thinking?
his Canadian agency is responsible for upholding the country's strict net neutrality laws.
What is the CRTC (Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission)?
This term describes a cell reference in a spreadsheet that doesn’t change when copied to other cells.
What is an absolute reference?
This international organization manages WCAG standards.
What is the W3C (World Wide Web Consortium)?
This common attack aims to trick individuals into providing sensitive information by pretending to be a legitimate entity, often through email.
What is phishing?
This protocol, implemented in 1974, laid the foundation for modern internet communication.
What is TCP/IP?
This digital literacy skill involves understanding how digital tools shape what we can and cannot do in different contexts.
What is recognizing affordances and constraints?
This term describes a system where inputs and outputs are visible, but the internal workings are opaque.
What is a black box?
This is the process of discovering patterns and correlations in very large datasets.
What is data mining?
This guideline ensures web text and background colors are set in a way to ensure readability.
What is color contrast?
This security feature requires two or more verification steps, such as a password and a fingerprint, to access accounts or devices.
What is multi-factor authentication (MFA)? .
This person is credited with developing the World Wide Web in 1989.
Who is Tim Berners-Lee?
This concept involves evaluating how digital tools influence our ways of thinking, communicating, and interacting with the world.
What is digital mediation?
This U.S. law, enacted after 9/11, expanded government surveillance capabilities and raised concerns about privacy.
What is the Patriot Act?
This framework analyzes how power operates in data visualization, using a feminist lens.
What is the Data Feminism framework?
This term refers to combining different forms of communication, such as text, visuals, and audio, into a single message.
What is multimodal communication?
This type of encryption is used to secure web browsing traffic and relies on certificates to verify the authenticity of websites.
What is SSL encryption? .
This was the era that saw the rapid rise and fall of internet-based businesses, leading to a market crash.
What is the Dot-Com Era?
This is the difference between digital literacy and digital fluency, the latter being mastery of using digital tools in various contexts.
What is digital fluency?
This Canadian law allows users to copy portions of copyrighted works for purposes like research or education.
What is Fair Dealing?
This diagram is used in databases to visually represent entities and their relationships.
What is an entity-relationship diagram (ERD)?
These online tools can be used to evaluate a website's compliance with WCAG standards.
What is a WCAG Accessibility Evaluation Tool?
This type of targeted phishing attack uses publicly available information to craft personalized and convincing emails aimed at a specific individual.
What is spear phishing? .