making connections

1. ABERDEEN 2040
Week 1
Paired Tutorial
Details
PSE 10

2. Technology and the individual
(Making Connections page 7-11)
General Instructions:
• You will participate in a 15 minute tutorial with a partner.
• Your tutor will give you a specific time for this.
• You should look at the questions and prepare detailed answers
• You should not ‘read’ these answers from a script.
• Use bullet points and expand on them – try to speak as naturally as
possible.
• You should listen to your partner and respond to him/her.
• You should ask questions too.
• Your tutor will ask additional questions

3. Teamwork and individual Work: based on page 9 –
but use your own ideas/examples
What are the advantages/disadvantages of working in a team?
Give examples of when you worked in a team/individually
Which do you prefer?
Do individuals or teams make the best contribution to society?

4. The Ripple Effect: page 8
What do you understand by ‘the ripple effect’?
How does this apply in
the development of the internet?
(summarise in 2 sentences!)

5. Developing new technology: pages 10-11
Technologists use customer feedback to get ideas that help them
develop products.
What are the pros and cons of these methods of collecting customer
feedback?
• surveys, comments + direct communication (paragraphs 8-9)
• beta testing (paragraph 10)
• focus groups (paragraph 11)

6. Technology in use
Explain how technology has changed the way individuals, organisations
and companies now communicate, work, socialise and conduct
business.