Resident Visitor Mapping

The practical overview of “The Resident Visitor Typology” based on Marshall Hartlen’s understanding of the concept presented by David White and Alison Le Cornu (2011).

I had been aware of the concept of digital natives, and digital immigrants (Prensky, 2001), and was aware that I was and always would be the latter. So when I initially approached this assignment, I approached thinking that digital immigrant was synonymous with a certain degree of digital ineptitude that I would never be able to overcome. After reading “The Resident Visitor Typology” (White and Le Cornu, 2011) I came to a new understanding, and my the self discovery of the “digital me” was profound, and I am now seeing myself in a new way, and am conscious of trying to keep certain elements of my personal resident-visitor typology hidden, and make others more public.

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Reflections on LRNT 521 Symposiums: Openness is the Way forward!

 

I am excited to get going on this journey at long last! The most surprising thing for me in this first week was learning about the wide variety of applications for technology integration there exists in the economy, and the variety in scope and sequence for research opportunities further down the road. I forgot that the name of our program is both learning, and technology. I had initially ignored the latter, or rather I did not think of it in the way it has been presented to me this week. I just thought that I was going to blast forward with all sorts of new technological ideas and gadgets and that I would be at the leading edge of ed-tech by the time I finished my, what is sure to be ground-breaking, research in year two!

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