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Smruti Swaroop Post 1

27 February 2025, 4:42 AM

Visitors/Residents/Resident Visitor/Visitor Resident?

Greetings everyone. 

I liked White and McCormu's ideas of Visitors and Residents; how we could be visitors/residents of the same tool depending on time and space. I am curious how will I be placed; I have an account on LinkedIn, I visit the app almost everyday, read others' posts, like them/comment on them, but I hardly post. I don't seem to be a visitor, I am resident, but an non-participating resident or a low-participating resident? Should there be more nuances to the terms "visitors" and "residents"? The concept of a "sliding scale" perhaps seems appropriate here. 

White's equation of language and digital natives/immigrants is also an interesting one. I wonder here, with constantly evolving technology, can a native be a native forever? There might always be something the native might not be aware of; s/he is new to it and the immigrant and native have the same start line when it comes to this change in technology. In this context, the idea of "learning literacies" made sense. 

Thank you for reading my post, 

Smruti. 

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Celine Woodthorpe Post 2 (summarised) in reply to 1

1 March 2025, 2:22 PM
Smruti, I agree with you and it both is rather interesting concepts. I have...
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Lina Furnell Post 3 (summarised) in reply to 1

1 March 2025, 7:47 PM
The idea of a 'digital native' comes with expectation that the person can use...
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Michelle Hennelly Post 4 (summarised) in reply to 1

3 March 2025, 5:24 PM
Hello everyone I agree that age definitely has no bearing on technical or...
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Rebecca Stewart-Hodgson Post 5 (summarised) in reply to 1

4 March 2025, 6:46 PM
I agree, and I think also there is a level of flex or change that needs to be...
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David Roberts Post 6 (summarised) in reply to 5

4 March 2025, 9:01 PM
Hi, it is an interesting concept. I really like the recognition of a spectrum...
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Margaux Ronquillo Post 7 (summarised) in reply to 1

6 March 2025, 4:49 PM
Loving the collective input! :) My two cents on the topic: In my opinion, the...
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Richard Skyrme Post 8 (summarised) in reply to 1

7 March 2025, 11:52 AM
I like the terms resident/visitor distinction as is it doesn't put us into...
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Helen Shepherd Post 9 (summarised) in reply to 8

7 March 2025, 2:13 PM
I think the terms resident and visitor and the fact that they are based on...
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Alex Martin Post 10 (summarised) in reply to 9

7 March 2025, 8:13 PM
It's great to see the discussion on this one. I had never heard of the...
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Claire Flynn Post 11 (summarised) in reply to 1

8 March 2025, 2:08 PM

Martin Weller gets into this on his Podcast and Blog

 Interesting discussion....
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Chanceler Galhardo Penicela Post 12 (summarised) in reply to 1

11 March 2025, 8:46 PM
The 'Visitor vs resident' concept is more accurate than the 'Native vs...
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Kennedy Karani Onyiko Post 13 (summarised) in reply to 1

13 March 2025, 8:22 PM
My understanding of David White’s continuum of online visitor and resident is...
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Dionne Angela Roach Post 14 (summarised) in reply to 1

27 March 2025, 6:16 PM

Natives

 I wonder here, with constantly evolving technology, can a native be...
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Deborah Lawal Post 15 (summarised) in reply to 14

19 April 2025, 11:43 PM

A blend of both

 When I think about myself as a person who was not born at a...
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