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Digital Differences; How Do I Use The Web?

Prior to undertaking UOSM2008, I was completely unaware of the mass inequality and difference that shrouds the internet. Last week I began by understanding the division through generations: However through my research this week, there is increasing evidence to suggest other variations to how we perceive, interact and experience our digital lives. This new form of inequality, is referred to as ‘The Digital Divide’. Continue reading →

Digital Differences; How Do I Use The Web?

Prior to undertaking UOSM2008, I was completely unaware of the mass inequality and difference that shrouds the internet. Last week I began by understanding the division through generations: However through my research this week, there is increasing evidence to suggest other variations to how we perceive, interact and experience our digital lives. This new form of inequality, is referred to as ‘The Digital Divide’. Continue reading →

Reflecting On My First Blog Post

Writing my first blog post, I quickly realised that it was going to be extremely difficult to put all the information I had gathered through research in to the minuscule 300 word limit. On top of this I really wanted my post to be as engaging, and aesthetically pleasing, and not just a page with 300 words. This is where info-graphics became extremely useful, it allowed me to give a detailed summary of what Prensky Digital Immigrants and Digital Natives meant, and what David S. Continue reading →

Reflecting On My First Blog Post

Writing my first blog post, I quickly realised that it was going to be extremely difficult to put all the information I had gathered through research in to the minuscule 300 word limit. On top of this I really wanted my post to be as engaging, and aesthetically pleasing, and not just a page with 300 words. This is where info-graphics became extremely useful, it allowed me to give a detailed summary of what Prensky Digital Immigrants and Digital Natives meant, and what David S. Continue reading →

Reflecting On My First Blog Post

Writing my first blog post, I quickly realised that it was going to be extremely difficult to put all the information I had gathered through research in to the minuscule 300 word limit. On top of this I really wanted my post to be as engaging, and aesthetically pleasing, and not just a page with 300 words. This is where info-graphics became extremely useful, it allowed me to give a detailed summary of what Prensky Digital Immigrants and Digital Natives meant, and what David S. Continue reading →

Reflecting On My First Blog Post

Writing my first blog post, I quickly realised that it was going to be extremely difficult to put all the information I had gathered through research in to the minuscule 300 word limit. On top of this I really wanted my post to be as engaging, and aesthetically pleasing, and not just a page with 300 words. This is where info-graphics became extremely useful, it allowed me to give a detailed summary of what Prensky Digital Immigrants and Digital Natives meant, and what David S. Continue reading →

Reflecting On My First Blog Post

Writing my first blog post, I quickly realised that it was going to be extremely difficult to put all the information I had gathered through research in to the minuscule 300 word limit. On top of this I really wanted my post to be as engaging, and aesthetically pleasing, and not just a page with 300 words. This is where info-graphics became extremely useful, it allowed me to give a detailed summary of what Prensky Digital Immigrants and Digital Natives meant, and what David S. Continue reading →

Intro Topic: Digital Visitors and Digital Residents

Digital visitors and Digital residents is a further development of Prenksy’s original theory of digital natives and digital immigrants. Prensky set to make a distinction between people who are completely at ease with technology and the digital world and those who actively work and know how to use the internet but will never be fully competent. This became an extremely influential theory, which until recently gained widespread acceptance. Continue reading →

Intro Topic: Digital Visitors and Digital Residents

Digital visitors and Digital residents is a further development of Prenksy’s original theory of digital natives and digital immigrants. Prensky set to make a distinction between people who are completely at ease with technology and the digital world and those who actively work and know how to use the internet but will never be fully competent. This became an extremely influential theory, which until recently gained widespread acceptance. Continue reading →

Intro Topic: Digital Visitors and Digital Residents

Digital visitors and Digital residents is a further development of Prenksy’s original theory of digital natives and digital immigrants. Prensky set to make a distinction between people who are completely at ease with technology and the digital world and those who actively work and know how to use the internet but will never be fully competent. This became an extremely influential theory, which until recently gained widespread acceptance. Continue reading →