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Our Complex Relationship With Technology
Julian Stodd
(1) I woke this morning to an angrily vibrating phone, on fire with
little red alerts. My first action on getting up used to be making a cup of tea
but it’s now hijacked by technology. Our relationship with devices is
complex: love or hate, or need and want. In the Social Age, it’s technology
that brings us together, that provides access to communities and facilitates
the discussions we have within them. It enables the formation of wide
collections of loose social ties and the maintenance of increased numbers of
strong and deep ones, whilst also providing access to knowledge. My first
instinct in many situations is to reach for the phone: maps, directions, email
and texts, tuning the guitar or sharing on Facebook, finding out how to
change the oil in the car or book a festival for the summer. I have some
personal views to express my ideas in response to the advancement of
technology.
(2) There are few aspects of life that technology doesn’t touch, but
it’s easy to let the horse lead the cart. We are seeing technology
transforming learning: systems provide infrastructure, media can be easily
created to enhance learning, language itself is translated and transformed,
we capture, share and journal with ease. The learning experience is more
easily quantified, both for individuals and for organisations. But
quantification doesn’t always equate to quality.
(3) It’s all about balance and agility: our ability to learn, to innovate
and be creative, to do things differently tomorrow from how we did them
yesterday. It means that we should have as much say in things as the
devices we buy and carry around with us. Whilst the features of technology
may connect us ever more closely and ever more vocally, scheduling,
chasing and reprimanding us ever more often, we need to ensure that
underneath it all we are being effective. It should be our natural behaviours
that are being enhanced by the technology, not the technology forcing us to
adapt our behaviours.
(4) We need to recognise that we now live in the Social Age of
learning, where the bywords are agility and engagement, where formal
experiences are less valuable than applied ones, where traditional models of
authority and expertise are subverted by more social methodologies that
rely on communities and sharing. We are in a time of change: change to
how organisations and individuals engage with each other, changes in our
relationship with technology, changes to how we engage within
communities to learn to co-create meaning.
(5) Instead of depending upon lumbering formal technology,
needing unwieldy servers and infrastructure, today’s artisan workers use
tablets, phones and apps to achieve much the same thing. Instead of needing
offices and pot plants, we need WiFi and coffee shops, Dropbox and Skype.
However, it’s the social technology that fits into our lives rather than
requiring us to adapt our lives to suit it. Social technology should give us
access to our communities whilst we are on the move anytime, anywhere.
Because social learning is anchored and grounded in reality making links
back to formal learning, whilst formal learning is always trying to reach out
to meet reality.
(6) Social Technology has to be effortlessly social, or it’s not social
at all. The reason is obvious that large organisations spend so much money
on that field and they fail to meet the needs or expectations of users. They
are built around the requirements of IT teams, compliance teams, learning
teams, but not the people who actually count: the people who use them.
(Adapted from:
http://www.lifewidemagazine.co.uk/uploads/1/0/8/4/10842717/magazine_1
0_june_2014.pdf).
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In which paragraphs does the writer explicitly express his hopes about modern technology?
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3 and 5
1 and 2
2 and 6
2 and 4
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Differentiated
complicated
advanced
simple
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What can you infer from the text?
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The writer expects one day horse-drawn carts will apply modern technology.
The writer feels worried with the advancement of technology for education.
The writer worries if technology may suit the peoples needs and expectation.
The writer doesnt like advanced technology because it hijacks his morning tea.
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What is the key point of paragraph 4?
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When you scan-read the text, you will understand that ....
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there are equal numbers of paragraphs expressing writers optimism and pessimism
there is no pessimistic opinion expressed by the writer in the text
there are more paragraphs expressing writers optimistic than pessimistic opinions
there are more paragraphs expressing writers pessimistic than optimistic opinions
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Which one is NOT TRUE according to the text?
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