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Friends do not let friends use this binary

Digital Natives, Digital Immigrants (Prensky, 2001)

Instead…

Visitors and Residents

“Visitors and Residents is a simple way of describing a wide range, or continuum of, modes of online engagement. It has proved to be a useful way to come to an understanding of individuals’ motivations when they use the web in differing contexts. We are not proposing that one mode of engagement is better than the other, simply that different modes are employed depending on the individual’s motivation and context at the time.”

Student Visitor Resident Map (via Dave White)

Educator Visitor Resident Map (via Dave White)

http://daveowhite.com/vandr/vr-mapping/

Internet Mapping Project (Kevin Kelly)

“The internet is vast. Bigger than a city, bigger than a country, maybe as big as the universe. It’s expanding by the second. No one has seen its borders.

And the internet is intangible, like spirits and angels. The web is an immense ghost land of disembodied places. Who knows if you are even there, there.

Yet everyday we navigate through this ethereal realm for hours on end and return alive. We must have some map in our head.

I’ve become very curious about the maps people have in their minds when they enter the internet. So I’ve been asking people to draw me a map of the internet as they see it. That’s all. More than 50 people of all ages and levels of expertise have mapped their geography of online.”

More Images http://kk.org/internet-mapping/

Internet Mapping plus Visitor and Resident Maps by Coventry University Students

Featured Image: Animated GIF made from Behance Digital Native vs Digital Immigrant Tshirts created by Neph Trejo (I promise to buy a shirt ASAP, will you?)