Student: Ivan Siancas Teacher: Karishma Babani Course: Advanced 11 Schedule: 8:45 – 10:15 a.m 1. Answer 1 of the questions of page 197 in a paragraph form. Use the Oreo strategy. Include 3 vocabulary words and highlight them. Do you think you enjoy and be succesful in a MOOC? Why or why not? Be specific. In my opinion, I woudn’t be so succesful in a MOOC course or I couldn’t learn well. First because I think it’s crucial for me to be in face to face classes because I get distracted easly, specially is courses that have numbers, like math or chemestry, so I can put more attention in a classroom. I get bored easly too, so I wouldn’t enjoy it very much. I can do it well learning English via online, for instance, I’ve been taken online Englih lessons for three years, and did it well. But I know I couldn’t put the same collaboration on another courses. So, all in all, a MOOC course wouldn’t work for me enough. 2. Express Opinions: Answer 1 of the questions of page 235 in a paragraph form. Use the Oreo strategy. (classwork) Which examples in the article describe your own behaviors? Do you think you have an addiction to smartphones or some other technology? I think that the example that best discribes my own behavior is checking constanly my cellphone, I don’t consider I have an addiction, but I check my cellphone several times. To start, I check it in the morning when I wake up and my alarm rings, then I use it almost all the day. For instance, I sometimes check it during classes, then I use my cellphone to respond messages, or watch tiktok. I think that my phone’s notifications make think that I receive messages all the times and that triggers that kind of dependency I have. The only moment I don’t check it is when I’m working because it’s not allowed, so I don’t do it for 4 or 5 hours. In my opinion, I don’t think I have an addiction, but I have dependency and I don’t want to develop an addiction because it would be terrible. 3. Create: Choose 3 out of the 5 options that you have on page 244 and answer the questions using the vocabulary words that are suggested. 1. To a manager or professional surveyed Leslie Perlow, PhD (reading 1) Why are you constantly checking your smartphone from the moment you wake up until you go to bed, even when you are in vacation? - When I’m working, the influx of messages and emails I receive is a lot, so I’m always checking my cellphone and I’m always busy that I can’t eat without check it. When I’m on vacation I forget that I’m on vacation and my phone vibrates because of a notification I check it thinking that it is a message from work, so it triggers that compulsion of check my phone several times and I when I don’t receive none, I feel an urge of check it more and more. 2. To Susan Davis, author of Addicted to Your Smartphone? How are you able to to manage your smartphone usage, and what effect did it have on your life? - First, I’m conscious that the usage of cellphones can turn into an addiction, so I have a commitment to diminish the use of it, I only check it when I know that I have an important message or email, I avoid using it to watch movies or series, instead of that, I use my TV. When I go to bed, I left my cellphone away from me and if I need to wake up early, I use my own alarm. So that way I wean away from my cellphone, it’ not hard if are willing to do it. 3. To the ten-year-old boy who went electronic – free for a week. - At the start of the week, what did you think of your mother’s idea of going without electronics? How did the way change as the week progressed? At the start of the week, I thought my mom was crazy, how can I do it? I thought I couldn’t stand to be without my cellphone, it’s the most important device for me, I kind of angry at first. That idea that I couldn’t have my cellphone away from was twitching on my mind. But then I had fun with my family and the fun we had I didn’t feel that necessity of checking my phone repeatedly, I realized I don’t need my cellphone to pass a good time, it was great, and I don’t relent of have gone electronic – free for a week.
