Digital Literacy and 21st Century Skills

Netiquette and Empowered Learners

• Netiquette is a combination of network (internet) and etiquette.
• Empowered Learners are characterized by responsibility, self-motivation, self-management, curiosity, independence, self-awareness, and emotional intelligence.

Critical Thinking and Emotional Intelligence

• Critical thinking involves using analysis, research, evaluation, and creativity to come to your own unique perspective.
• Emotional Intelligence is the awareness and control of one's emotions.

Business Ventures and Writing Process

• A propitious business venture is one that shows favorable circumstances.
• The writing process involves brainstorming, drafting, revising, and submitting.

Brain Function and Personality Traits

• The amygdala is the part of the brain that controls the fight or flight response.
• Affable refers to being easy to talk to and gracious.

Stress Management and Learning

• Effective stress management involves time management, physical health, and relaxation skills.
• Active engagement involves students actively participating or interacting with their learning.
• Critical thinking can reframe our perceptions and view a stressful situation from different points of view.

Multiple Intelligences and Learning Styles

• Howard Gardner defined 8 different ways people are smart, known as the Multiple Intelligences.
• Strong intrapersonal skills involve being self-aware.
• Strong kinesthetic learners prefer to learn by feeling or touching (hands-on, tactile learning).
• Individual learning strengths and styles include visual, auditory, and kinesthetic.

Learning Styles

• Visual learners prefer to learn by seeing.
• Auditory learners prefer to learn by hearing.

Vocabulary

• Ameliorate means to improve or make better.
• Innocuous means harmless or unlikely to offend.
• Indomitable means unable to be overcome or subdued.
• Abating means to lessen or reduce.
• Pejorative means belittling or disparaging.
• Synchronous means existing or occurring at the same time.
• Asynchronous means not existing or occurring at the same time.
• Clandestine means done in secret or shady action.
• Sedulous means diligent, persevering, and persistent.
• Interminable means seeming to have no end or never-ending.
• Candor means honesty.

Reading Success

• The major factors of reading success include motivation, concentration, and effective reading strategies.

Note Taking and Reading Methods

• The Cornell System of note taking involves creating an easy-to-use system with a upside-down T, where major topics are on the left, cues/evidence are on the right, and a summary or references are at the bottom.
• Intelligent readers approach reading with a plan in mind.
• The SRI reading method involves scanning, reading, and interpreting.
• The SQ3R reading method involves surveying, questioning, reading, reciting, and reviewing.

Vocabulary and Sentence Structure

• Recalcitrant means resisting authority or control, disobedient or compliant.
• Pragmatic means dealing with things sensibly and realistically in a way that is based on practical rather than theoretical considerations.
• Mundane means everyday, ordinary, relating to the world or worldly matters.
• Sentence structure involves the order of all the parts in a sentence, including subject, predicate, objects, phrases, punctuation, etc.
• Plagiarism is the practice of taking someone else's work or idea without proper citation or credit.