EDCMOOC Glossary

UTOPIA:
creating highly desirable social, educational, or cultural effects

DYSTOPIA:
creating extremely negative effects for society, education or culture

TECHNOLOGICAL DETERMINISM:
Chandler defines it as ‘seek[ing] to explain social and historical phenomena in terms of one principal or determining factor’ - technology.

DIGITAL NATIVE
a person who was born in the Digital Age or who grew up with technologies.

DIGITAL IMMIGRANT
a person who was born before the Digital Age, not growing up with technologies around, but picked up later on, to some extent.