Are you a Digital Resident or a Digital Visitor? Using the quiz resource

See my post from last week: Are you a Digital Resident or a Digital Visitor? Developing a quiz resource for the background to this resource.

This week I used the ideas from the quiz in a lecture on 'Living a Digital Life'. The lecture included two cohorts of students, so I decided to select two questions from the quiz, and using PollEverywhere, present them projected side by side for each cohort. Here are the results:

Question 1: Do you have any online friends you have never met face to face? (Sort of means - Yes, but through a face to face friend, or similar)

This question is designed to get students thinking about how they value online relationships. Not a lot of difference between my cohorts here (note small sample sizes). Perhaps not surprising. 

Follow up discussion: If you do not have any online friends, do you think that such friendships are possible? Are they 'real' friendships?

Question 2: Do you ever feel like you are missing out because you have been offline for a long time? 

 
This question looks at how the students value the conversations online compared to the content they view. The 6 Digital Media students who answered 'Yes' for this one I would classify as the Digital Residents in the room.

Follow up discussion: Do you have to answer 'Yes' to be a Digital Resident? If being a resident with the option to choose when and where you connect a better model?

Finally here is a link to the original 4 question version of the 'Are you a Digital Resident or a Digital Visitor?' quiz. I've had 50 responses to this so far - although please note this has only been advertised via Twitter and Facebook so it is a highly biased and self-selecting sample, however it might give you a guide to the responses you might get among an adult room full of technology users!

Based on feedback to this four question version I am working on a longer more in-depth version - coming soon I promise!