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Digital Visitors and Residents

Originally it was suggested that you’re either a digital ‘native’ or a ‘immigrant’ (Prensky, 2001). A native being an expert online because they were born in the digital era and an immigrant being someone who struggles to adapt and use technology. This unsurprisingly faced heavy criticism. Continue reading →

Digital Residents and Visitors

The concept of Digital Visitors and Residents: The concept of Digital Visitors and Residents enable us to map individual’s engagement with the web today (White and Cornu, 2011).  Click the link below to find out more about Digital Residents and Visitors. Digital residents and visitors (created using biteable.com) When reflecting on my digital literacies and online behaviours, I referred to my self-test and my mapping of my digital engagement. Continue reading →

Digital residents and visitors

The concept of Digital visitors and residents: The concept of Digital Visitors and Residents enable us to map individual’s engagement with the web today (White and Cornu, 2011).  Click the link below to find out more about digital residents and visitors. Digital residents and visitors (created using biteable.com) When reflecting on my digital literacies and online behaviours, I referred to my self-test and my mapping of my digital engagement. Continue reading →

Digital Residents and Visitors

The concept of Digital Visitors and Residents: The concept of Digital Visitors and Residents enable us to map individual’s engagement with the web today (White and Cornu, 2011).  Click the link below to find out more about Digital Residents and Visitors. Digital residents and visitors (created using biteable.com) When reflecting on my digital literacies and online behaviours, I referred to my self-test and my mapping of my digital engagement. Continue reading →

UOSM2008 Introductory Post

Digital Natives and Immigrants Prensky (2001) identified the term ‘digital natives’, describing users who are very experienced with the Web. This looks at the younger generation (‘millenials’) in particular, who are highly skilled (Howe and Strauss, 2000, 2003). Digital immigrants are users who lack the digital skills, and find the Web a difficult environment to navigate. What defines a native and immigrant can vary per individual. Continue reading →

UOSM2008 Introductory Post

Digital Natives and Immigrants Prensky (2001) identified the term ‘digital natives’, describing users who are very experienced with the Web. This looks at the younger generation (‘millenials’) in particular, who are highly skilled (Howe and Strauss, 2000, 2003). Digital immigrants are users who lack the digital skills, and find the Web a difficult environment to navigate. What defines a native and immigrant can vary per individual. Continue reading →

Was I Born Online? – Digital Visitors vs. Digital Residents

Growing up in an online world, I have often taken computer literacy for granted. Prensky (2001) concludes that a person’s online proficiency is based mainly on their age. Those born during the boom of technological advances are considered ‘digital natives,’ whilst those born much before are ‘digital immigrants. Continue reading →

Was I Born Online? – Digital Visitors vs. Digital Residents

Growing up in an online world, I have often taken computer literacy for granted. Prensky (2001) concludes that a person’s online proficiency is based mainly on their age. Those born during the boom of technological advances are considered ‘digital natives,’ whilst those born much before are ‘digital immigrants. Continue reading →

Digital Visitors vs. Digital Residents – Intro Topic

Growing up in an online world, I have often taken computer literacy for granted. Prensky (2001) concludes that a person’s online proficiency is based mainly on their age. Those born during the boom of technological advances are considered ‘digital natives,’ whilst those born much before are ‘digital immigrants. Continue reading →

Digital ‘Visitors’ and ‘Residents’

Digital ‘Natives’ and Digital ‘Immigrants’ (Prensky) “Theory goes, that if you’re young enough to have grown up with digital technology, then you’re native to it” (White, 2014).  The concept proposed by Prensky of Digital ‘Natives’ and Digital ‘Immigrants’ was once widely accepted but is now subject to question and criticism. Continue reading →

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. ‘Natives’ being the people with a good understanding of the digital world that is the young generation and ‘Immigrants’ being the people struggling to establish a foundation within the digital world that is the older generation. Continue reading →

I’m just visiting #UOSM2008

Prensky’s ‘Natives and Immigrants’ typology Prensky’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 ‘native speakers of the digital language’ (1). 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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →