{"id":213,"date":"2018-04-29T16:02:38","date_gmt":"2018-04-29T23:02:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0063\/?p=213"},"modified":"2018-05-13T23:50:08","modified_gmt":"2018-05-14T06:50:08","slug":"the-role-that-technology-plays-in-my-life-the-visitors-and-residents-typology-map","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0063\/the-role-that-technology-plays-in-my-life-the-visitors-and-residents-typology-map\/","title":{"rendered":"Unit 2 | Assignment 2 | The Role That Technology Plays In My Life | The Visitors and Residents Typology Map"},"content":{"rendered":"

In an attempt to map my current use of digital technology viewed in figure one, I researched several sources. These sources debated the difference between Digital Native and Digital Immigrants vs. Visitors and Residents typology. My personal life experiences define which research I supported.<\/span><\/p>\n

I researched Marc Prensky\u2019s Digital Natives, Digital Immigrants part-one, comparing the differences. These two terms were defined by computing competence and age. He referred to, Digital Natives as our students today are all \u201cnative speakers\u201d of the digital language of computers, video games and the internet (Prensky, 2001). He indicated, those born after 1980 fall into his Digital Native category. His theory would classify my son as a Digital Native, who is born in 1992. It is just the contrary, my son is not computer literate, and he has no passion for being apart of social or professional digital platforms. He is a young man working in the trades industry, just completed his red seal. He purchased a hardcopy codes book to study for his final exam. Nothing he sets out to do is seen as a Digital Native. He believes in face-to-face relationships, where he is found delivering public speaking engagements for his community. Prensky also pointed out, those of us who were not born into the digital world (pre-1980) but have \u2026become fascinated by and adopted many or most aspects of the new technology are, and always will be compared to them, Digital Immigrants (Prensky, 2001). Prensky highlights that Digital Immigrants will reach for a how-to manual vs. Google Search platform.<\/span><\/p>\n

Dave White allowed me to see his research as a continuum of \u201cVisitors\u2019 and \u2018Residents\u2019 as a replacement for Prensky\u2019s much-criticized Digital Natives and Digital Immigrants\u00a0 (White, Le Cornu, 2011). White indicates, \u201cIndividuals who most closely fit the Visitor approach give a number of reasons for not wanting a \u2018digital identity\u2019, which would persist in some form when they are not online (White, 2011). He also went on to define, their residency is an additional layer of interaction and activity. When Residents log off, an aspect of their persona remains (White, 2011). My son and I can be visitors regardless of our age, and we could develop transferable skill across diverse platforms to become computer literate, when having the desire and need to. I see Visitor as a subset of Resident, which will extend the technical skills required to grow confidence and abilities to maneuver through Resident platforms. After exploring Dave Whites video describing the visitor \u2013 resident typology, this provided me what to consider when plotting out my social media map.<\/span><\/p>\n

Figure 1. My Visitors and Residents Typology Map<\/span><\/p>\n

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The development and expression of my visitors and residents conceptual map is a reflection of my current social and professional media toolbox. I am surprised with the outcome, and I would have never thought how large my social media toolbox has become. My conscious intention to duplicate some platforms for privacy and protection provides that wall between my personal and professional life. My most active digital identity is Skype, I have lived in four provinces, not allowing me the convenience to bond with my family, friends, past colleagues and cohorts.<\/span><\/p>\n

References<\/span><\/p>\n

Prensky, M. (2001). Digital natives, digital immigrants part 1.\u00a0On the Horizon<\/em>,\u00a09(5), 1-6. <\/span>doi:10.1108\/10748120110424816<\/span><\/p>\n

White, D. (2013). Just the mapping. [Video file]. Retrieved from\u00a0https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=MSK1Iw1XtwQ<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

White, D., & Le Cornu, A. (2011). Visitors and residents: A new typology for online engagement.\u00a0First Monday, 16<\/em>(9). doi:http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.5210\/fm.v16i9.3171<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In an attempt to map my current use of digital technology viewed in figure one, I researched several sources. These sources debated the difference between Digital Native and Digital Immigrants vs. Visitors and Residents typology. My personal life experiences define which research I supported. I researched Marc Prensky\u2019s Digital Natives, Digital Immigrants part-one, comparing the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":105,"featured_media":215,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-213","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lrnt521"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0063\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0063\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0063\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0063\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/105"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0063\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=213"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0063\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":285,"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0063\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213\/revisions\/285"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0063\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/215"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0063\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0063\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0063\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}