Some notes to help with your introductory post
You will NOT be formally assessed on this introductory post but you will get detailed individual feedback in exactly the same way as you will for the assessed topics 1 – 3. Please use this as an opportunity to get into the swing of how it all works, while making sure you stick to the deadline.
You may well consider the word limit (300 words) for your posts to be very low, but it should become clear very quickly that there are many ways to get your points across in an engaging way that are not dependent on wordy answers. Think, for example, of images, diagrams, infographics, video…
Section 2.7 of the #FLlearningnetworks MOOC will introduce you to a number of free tools that you might like to experiment with when preparing your work. You can also look back through the “Archive” section of the module blog to see the work students have created for this course over the past three years (though bear in mind that the structure of the module and the questions posed are slightly different this time)
The notion of ‘digital natives’ (young people who have grown up in the digital world and hence are expert users of technology) is often contrasted in the popular press with ‘digital immigrants’ (older people who struggle to master these new norms and behaviours). Digging a little deeper, however, tends to show that there is both expertise (and lack of it) *at all age groups*.
And just because people might be proficient users of technology for social purposes, it does not necessarily follow that they are effective at using it for learning or to build their professional digital profiles. This is where the digital ‘residents’ and ‘visitors’ framework adds more value over and above the simplistic and over-hyped ‘digital native’ ideas.
White, D. S., & Cornu, A. L. (2011). Visitors and Residents: A new typology for online engagement. First Monday, 16(9).
A short blog post from Oxford University, gives a nice summary of the visitors and residents idea.
Our own research (a few years old now) into the visitors and residents debate
Your reading around the subject should also uncover recent critiques of and enhancements to these theories that you can draw upon.
Task – Draw upon the results of your self-test and the concept of digital “visitors” and “residents” to evaluate the level of your current digital literacies in an introductory blog post.
Make sure you give your post a CATEGORY of “Intro Post” so that all the posts will be displayed together under this heading (Check Sarah’s post earlier today on setting categories)
Deadline for posting your answer to the set question is midnight (Singapore time) on 9/11.
If you have any questions, please ask! And if you find useful additional resources on this topic to share with the group, please do so via twitter using #MANG2049