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Digital Native & Immigrant to Visitor & Resident

Source taken from: http://tallblog.conted.ox.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/mapBlog.jpg Prensky’s article talks about the connection between computer competency and age. Which talks about how Digital Native and Digital Immigrant are being segregated. In context, Digital Native are people that are born into the digital generation where technology revolves around them. However, not everyone are fortunate to have access to it. Continue reading →

MANG2049 Digital Profile – Self Test at start of module

Rating at start of module Comments Accessing, managing and evaluating online information 4 This is quite a norm considering that majority of school’s curriculum requires us to do our own research and understanding on online content. So I can safely say that I have experience in doing this but am still learning to do it well. Continue reading →

About Me

Hello there! I’m Chloe, 21 this year, and I study Marketing at SIM-University of Southampton. On weekends, I’m a barista at a cafe in Singapore’s CBD. I took an interest into Marketing when I realised how much it could change perspectives through its messages conveyed. Continue reading →

Are you a ‘resident’ or ‘visitor’ ?

This is my face when I scroll through my mum’s Facebook and realized how happening her profile page is. (so many more ‘likes’ and comments than me!) As a young adult living in a developed country, I consider myself as a digital native. I grew up with technology and it comes naturally to me whenever I have to pick up something new about the digital world. Continue reading →

Digital “Residents” vs. “Visitors”

Digital age In the current era where internet has become easily accessible from anywhere, at anytime, our daily lives have been affected heavily. With the exposure to various websites among all ages, differences in how people use the internet, how long they use, and for what they use have become a way to differentiate types of users. Continue reading →

Self Test

1) Accessing, managing and evaluating online information: (3/5) As a business student, I am pretty sure that I have the capabilities to conduct intensive research and working on the web adequately. 2) Participating in online communities: (2/5) I do visit forums to conduct some form of e-retailing from time to time. Continue reading →

Topic 1 – Digital “Visitors” and Digital “Residents”

Who is digital visitors? Who is digital residents? What do they do and why digital? This blog-post will explain the two different concepts. The term resident means residing at a place which briefly also explains the term digital residents they “resides” online. Spending most of their time creating multiple identities for different communities online, as they have different image to portray to each community. Continue reading →

Digital Profile – Self Test

Source: http://www.allisonandbusby.com/info/blog/could-you-live-without-the-internet/ Getting started on this topic, and it suddenly hits me, “Can i really survive without the use of Internet?” Being someone who starts her day by checking Whatsapp chats, browsing Twitter & Instagram, and then spending the day surfing the net or anything related to technology, i really wonder how life would be without the Internet. Hmmm. Behold, time for my self-assessment. Continue reading →

My Self-Test at the start of #MANG2049

This is a self-assessment of my digital literacy at this point of time, for the start of this module: Living and Working on the Web #MANG2049. There will be a rating from 1 to 5 (where 1 is no experience, and 5 is very experienced) for the following factors: Accessing, managing and evaluating online information – Rating: 2 ★★ The power of search engines are incredible as the search and results for general information is readily at our fingertips. Continue reading →

Out of 5,

Myriad of information is readily available online, but the usefulness is dependent on how you utilise it. Hence before the start of the module, here’s a peek of how I accessed my digital profile. Accessing, Managing & Evaluating Information – ➌ There can be an improvement in terms of evaluating the online information; from learning how to cross-referencing them to making an independent assessment (and not taking the information as it is). Continue reading →

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