Assignment M1 LA3
Read the text below carefully for your
comprehension. Then analyze it to identify the thesis statement, the arguments,
and the reiteration.
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, its 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 organizations. 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 behaviors that are
being enhanced by the technology, not the technology forcing us to adapt our behaviors.
4.
We need to recognize that we now
live in the Social Age of learning, where the by words 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 organizations 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 organizations 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:
Table of Identification
The title of the text to identify:
Our Complex Relationship with Technology
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Thesis statement
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I have some personal views to express my ideas in response to the
advancement of technology in the Social
Age.
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Arguments
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The quantification of technology doesn’t always equate to the quality of learning.
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It should be our natural behaviors that are being
enhanced by the technology, not the technology forcing us to adapt our
behaviors.
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We are in a time of change: change to how
organizations 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.
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Social technology should give us access to our
communities whilst we are on the move anytime, anywhere.
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Reiteration
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Social Technology has to be
effortlessly social, or it's not social at all.
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