After spending a couple articles focusing on the arguments regarding whether someone's upbringing as a digital native or immigrant impacts their learning styles, I think I am finding myself agreeing more with those who claim that generation is not the key deciding factor in engagement with technology. This is why I especially enjoyed our last reading in EME6414 this week from White and Cornu. Instead of focusing on age they emphasize someones motivation and desire to engagement with technology that is the deciding factor in their involvement. 

While I noted in my first blog from this week that Prensky seemed to note changes in Brain structure for those born as digital natives but did not go into detail to prove these claims, White and Cornu do a little better job of explaining how technology has influenced everyday life. They focus on the distinction between personal and professional. Technology, they argue, has blurred this distinction and helped to allow individuals to do work type things at home and vice versa. Ultimately they develop a helpful matrix for visualizing whether someone is a resident or a visitor to the web. The matrix, however, has both an X and Y axis with the Y axis showing the change between ones institutional and non-institutional use. Finally at the end of the article they display several maps of example individuls who were labeled as digital residents instead of digital visitors, since residents are less understood. The maps demonstrate how even some of the same platforms span the individuals institutional and non-institutional use.