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Revisiting: Digital “Visitors” and “Residents”

Upon reading other peoples thoughts on visitors and residents, it has helped me to shape my own views with a bit more clarity. Originally I was of the mind that this was more of a binary scale, such as the original natives and immigrants. You were a “resident”, or you were a “visitor”. But the idea of a continuum, highlighted in […] The post Revisiting: Digital “Visitors” and “Residents” appeared first on Russell Kingsfield. Continue reading →

Progress update: #UOSM2033 topic 1

Hi everyone Don't forget that your two comments should be posted by close of play today (14th) and your reflective summaries are due by end of Sunday, 18th Oct. You will then get individual feedback on Topic 1 as a whole by end of play on Tuesday 20th. As advised in the prevous message, don't forget that you need to give your posts a Category of "Topic 1" in order for them to display in the right section of the module blog. Continue reading →

A Spectrum of Users

It is quite apparent to me that the notion of digital natives and digital immigrants is outdated. I agree with Lanclos (2014) when she states that I didn’t just know how to use the internet and it’s related technologies like a first language as Prensky (2001) suggests. I wasn’t just born with a how-to manual embedded in my brain. Continue reading →

A Spectrum of Users

It is quite apparent to me that the notion of digital natives and digital immigrants is outdated. I agree with Lanclos (2014) when she states that I didn’t just know how to use the internet and it’s related technologies like a first language as Prensky (2001) suggests. I wasn’t just born with a how-to manual embedded in my brain. Continue reading →

Digital Residents and Visitors: What are they?

In this day and age, it’s hard to find someone in our society who hasn’t used the internet at some point in their life. The web is populated by a wide variety of users of different abilities, who use the internet for many purposes. It is useful to classify these users into groups, so that we can understand how to improve user experience. To understand the concept of digital residents and visitors, it is first necessary to look at the idea of digital natives and immigrants. Continue reading →

Digital Residents and Visitors: What are they?

In this day and age, it’s hard to find someone in our society who hasn’t used the internet at some point in their life. The web is populated by a wide variety of users of different abilities, who use the internet for many purposes. It is useful to classify these users into groups, so that we can understand how to improve user experience. To understand the concept of digital residents and visitors, it is first necessary to look at the idea of digital natives and immigrants. Continue reading →

Digital ‘Visitors’ or ‘Residents.’ What’s it all about?

Digital scholar Marc Prensky is known for coining the terms digital ‘Natives’ and ‘Immigrants.’ These terms have been widely accepted, though also criticised for over a decade. It is more recently that the terms digital ‘Visitors’ and ‘Residents’ have challenged Prensky’s theory. This newer approach works in the same way by looking at individuals’ web usage, however; it does not categorise them according to age and background. Continue reading →

Is the distinction between digital “visitors” and “residents” as black and white as it seems?

Black and White – Polar Opposites. Via Pinterest: https://goo.gl/3S6Nby Black/white, male/female, young/old, we live in a world full of polar opposites. While it may seem a good starting point when discussing the differences between concepts, it can often create boundaries between people, resulting in prejudices and discrimination. This is certainly the case with Marc Prensky’s Digital “native” and “immigrant” dichotomy. Continue reading →

The Digital World is a Place, not a Language.

As a linguist, Prensky’s (2001) concept of ‘natives’ and ‘immigrants’ , used to explain the varying ways in which people use the web in the modern world, is a little jarring. He compares the difference between the internet generation (natives) and those who came to the internet later in life (immigrants) with native speakers of a language and those learning a foreign tongue. Continue reading →