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# Is email making us stupid? (reading/discussion/roleplay)

By [Helen Sinclair](https://hs.targettraining.eu/circles/author/helen-sinclair) on Aug 29, 2018 2:45:00 PM |

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### Technology in the workplace

The “memo” (along with the role play concept) and the “attached” article are best distributed well before a session begins, as it will take a bit of time for participants to read the whole article (some challenging vocabulary there!). A variant would be to have them read only the first few paragraphs of the article – or to work through a longer part together during an earlier session.

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