An article to discuss "digital natives and immigrants" vs. the term "visitors and residents".
As part of the JISC funded Isthmus project we have been taking a close look not at what technologies our students use but at how our they use them. We found that our students could not be usefully categorised as Digital Natives or Digital Immigrants. I.e. This distinction does not help guide the implementation of technologies it simply provides the excuse that “some people ‘just don’t get it’ which is why your new approach has failed so badly…”
Anyway, our students appropriation of online services did not seem to follow a simple pattern based on skill level. It seemed to depend on if they saw the web as a ‘place to live’ or as a collection of useful tools. This underlying motivation led us to outline two main categories of distance learning student.
The first Life wit Print booklet, published in 2004
2008 Life with Print book "Corporate Communication in the Media Mix"
E-book tested
About mobile tags in Mainz, similar to the UpCode project.
Marketing in social networks