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#EDCMOOC: utopias & dystopias – looking to the past (part 2)

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Ultimately the paper is a rejection of technological determinism, with the author describing the theory as ‘reductive’ and technocentric. I haven’t done enough supplementary reading to feel well-informed about the theory and criticisms of it. Certainly this is reductionist, in Chandler’s terms.

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#EDCMOOC: utopias & dystopias – looking to the past (part 2)

Good To Great

Ultimately the paper is a rejection of technological determinism, with the author describing the theory as ‘reductive’ and technocentric. I haven’t done enough supplementary reading to feel well-informed about the theory and criticisms of it. Certainly this is reductionist, in Chandler’s terms.

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Archetypes – worth looking into? (Find 15: 30 January – 3 February)

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We’ve all heard that ‘opposites attract’ and this applies to archetypes too – opposite archetypes often have common connections, for example in what drives them or their perception of time: The Sovereign works well with the Mystic, because both are driven by power and both tend to look ahead. ’ about it all.

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Archetypes – worth looking into? (Find 15: 30 January – 3 February)

Good To Great

We’ve all heard that ‘opposites attract’ and this applies to archetypes too – opposite archetypes often have common connections, for example in what drives them or their perception of time: The Sovereign works well with the Mystic, because both are driven by power and both tend to look ahead. ’ about it all.

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#EDCMOOC: being human – reasserting the human

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His take on the problem is, I think, that we devote too much energy to teaching students the technicalities of how to use technology: how to use various software to speed up calculations or processes; how to use the internet to research topics. What’s interesting to me, though, is that it’s about more than voices or faces.