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Digital Visitors and Residents

In this fast-moving world of technology, it sure is difficult to keep up with new innovations. Marc Prensky initially introduced the idea of Digital Natives and Immigrants in 2001 to distinguish between people based on their knowledge of the technology. ā€˜Nativesā€™ being the people with a good understanding of the digital world that is the young generation and ā€˜Immigrantsā€™ being the people struggling to establish a foundation within the digital world that is the older generation. Continue reading →

Iā€™m just visiting #UOSM2008

Prenskyā€™s ā€˜Natives and Immigrantsā€™ typology Prenskyā€™s concept that was widely criticised for its generalisation of the population division based on the age gap and its education on technology. The net generation is the young, native population who have been immersed by the digital world from a young age, therefore ā€˜native speakers of the digital languageā€™ (1). Continue reading →

Digital Visitors and Residents

Digital ā€˜visitorsā€™ are known to use the web only when it is necessary and can help them in achieving certain goals. They like to do most of their thinking offline, so they are users, not members, of the Web and place little value in belonging online (White and Le Cornu, 2011). A common misconception is that the older generation are just visitors, but this is not completely true. Continue reading →

Digital visitors and residents

Digital ā€˜visitorsā€™ are known to use the web only when it is necessary and can help them in achieving certain goals. They like to do most of their thinking offline, so they are users, not members, of the Web and place little value in belonging online (White and Le Cornu, 2011). A common misconception is that the older generation are just visitors, but this is not completely true. 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 →

Am I a digital visitor or a digital resident?

The terminology “digital native” and “digital immigrants” were creations of Prensky in 2001, who supposed that people born into the “digital era” would be digital natives, whilst those born after were immigrants who were likely to ‘manage to learn to exist but will never be fully competent'(Prensky 2001). Despite initial credence, Prensky’s theory came under strain from critics. Continue reading →

Categorising Blog Posts

Once youā€™ve written your post, you will need to assign a CATEGORY to it. If you do not, it will not appear on the module blog and no-one will be able to read it...! BEFORE hitting the 'publish' button... FIRST: Create and assign the relevant category: Click on ā€˜+add new categoryā€™ Type the appropriate name (e.g. Intro Topic, Topic 1, Topic 2 etc. Continue reading →

A Reflection on Topic 4

Created using Canva With theĀ number ofĀ internet users continuing to grow, considering thatĀ just over 3.5 billions people areĀ able to access the internet (internetlivestats.com), there is an increasing pressure to ensure people use the internet ethically. Within Phil’s blog he focusedĀ on how social media generates a ‘lynch mob’ mentality in cases much like Justine Sacco, which we have explored previously. Continue reading →

Topic 4: Social Media Ethics

Created using Canva The advent of social networking sitesĀ has made all of us more connected and by doing so has allowed others to more easily contact each other. Some of those connections areĀ positiveĀ but some areĀ not. The format of social networking we see today began in the late 90s with ‘Six Degrees’, a social networking site that allowed users to create profiles and connect with others through existing relationships or through mutual interests (Boyd et al. 2007). Continue reading →

Topic 4: Reflections

This week, we were given the task of exploring the ethical issues that arise through business or educational use of social media. This topic triggered a broad range of topics to be discussed by fellow #UOSM2008 students, however my post focused on the issue of digital footprints that accumulate from using social media in education. I thoroughly enjoyed researching this topic and reading the different perspectives that everyone had explored. Continue reading →