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Digital Visitors and Residents

Digital ‘visitors’ 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 ‘visitors’ 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 →

My Digital Residency! – UOSM2008 Introduction

The Digital Residents vs Visitors debate is something I’ve been considering recently; exploring it in my dissertation, and in a Digital Literacy session (see below!) I deliver with Tom Rowledge to MANG1022 students. Therefore, I was looking forward to being able to reflect on the debate, and on my own use of technology in this post. 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 →

Digital Visitors VS Digital Residents

Digital Visitors and Residents are a simple way of describing how different individuals use the world wide web. This theory is useful in helping us understand why individuals use the web. Continue reading →

Introductory Topic: The Types of Web Users

Digital Natives & Digital Immigrants The internet was created over two decades ago. For some, this is just a small fraction of their lifetime; for others, they have not known a life without it. This fact led Prensky (2001) to believe there existed a negative correlation between digital competence and age. Continue reading →

Introductory Topic: The Types of Web Users

Digital Natives & Digital Immigrants The internet was created over two decades ago. For some, this is just a small fraction of their lifetime; for others, they have not known a life without it. This fact led Prensky (2001) to believe there existed a negative correlation between digital competence and age. Continue reading →

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Categorising Blog Posts

Once you’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 ‘+add new category’ Type the appropriate name (e.g. Intro Topic, Topic 1, Topic 2 etc. Continue reading →

Intro Topic – Notes and Information

justaskbernie.ca Introductory Topic This as an opportunity to get into the swing of how the module works and familiarise yourself with the learning cycle, the deadlines and the self-assessment and feedback system. You will NOT be formally assessed on this topic, but you will get detailed individual feedback in exactly the same way as you will for the assessed topics 1 – 3. Continue reading →

A Reflection on Topic 4

Created using Canva With the number of internet users continuing to grow, considering that just over 3.5 billions people are able to access the internet (internetlivestats.com), there is an increasing pressure to ensure people use the internet ethically. Within Phil’s blog he focused 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 sites has made all of us more connected and by doing so has allowed others to more easily contact each other. Some of those connections are positive but some are 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 →

Topic 4: Reflection

This week we were called to investigate one of the ethical issues raised by business or educational use of social media. I chose to go down the business path and talk about the ethical concern regarding users’ data. In order to include all my points, I created a powtoon video. Continue reading →

Reflecting on Ethical Issues Associated with Social Media

After much research last week, I decided to write about the ethical issues surrounding social media and education (in fact, I used this idea of linking my reflection to the original blog from Stuart!).  Blogs I commented on focused on social media and business, giving me the perfect opportunity to learn more about areas I’d decided against assessing. Continue reading →

The Use of Social Media in Education

Social Networking Sites are a widely used tool to which 61% of adults engage in, thus making it a popular platform to interact over. As depicted in the graph below, a majority of those that use Social Networking Sites are between the ages of 16-24, thus making the use of social media in education a popular option amongst education providers.   Statistics on the different age groups that engaged in Social Networking in Great Britain during 2015. Continue reading →

Ethics in Social Media: Consumer Data

This week’s topic is to discuss an ethical issue raised by business use of social media. Specifically, we will look at the use of consumer data, and just how ethical it really is. For the purpose of including all my points I have created the following PowToon video which demonstrates them. Continue reading →

Social Media Plagiarism

Ethics focus on what is best for society, and constitute a structure of moral principles governing how people live their lives.  Therefore, ethical issues occur when moral principles and actions are conflicted, and individuals are unsure between right and wrong.   Education is slowly becoming more integrated with social media, so the ethical implications of this are becoming more relevant. Continue reading →