電気通信大学 ASE II: Japan & the future・日本の未来

Hello! 

How are you? Here is another post on the future - this time, Japan and the future. 

Look at the picture above. It shows an average Japanese family having dinner, and it comes from a Japanese magazine article from 1954 about home life. Is there anything different about family dinner time now than from then? 

Activity
What kinds of social or cultural changes can you see happening in Japan in the future? Japanese society and culture has already been through many changes since World War II. 

Take a look at these next group of pictures. They show some changes that have happened in around the last 50 years or so, up to now. What do you notice about the buildings, or the cars, or the way people dress? How do you feel that things have changed? 

Chuo-dori, Ginza, Tokyo, 1967

Chuo-dori, Ginza, Tokyo, 2017

Japanese young people, 1964

Japanese young people, 2017

Some contemporary fashions in Japan, late 1960s

Some contemporary fashions in Japan, 2017

Now let's take a look at this video about the Tsukuba Expo in 1985. This was almost 20 years later, but already things had changed since the 1960s: 

I have just two questions: 

What was the theme of the Tsukuba Expo? 

What kinds of achievements did the expo want to show?

Other questions to think about:

So what kinds of changes can you imagine happening in society or culture in the future from now? What sorts of fashions might people be wearing? For example, would long hair come back into fashion among men? Would women wear mini-skirts again? Or - would men wear skirts and women wear suits? How about music? What would it sound like in the future? 

What designs in cars could you see in the future? Would we see a return to some older designs in cars? How about buildings? How might they be different? Perhaps would we see something in the future that people 50 years ago would never have imagined! 

See you next week!

Images: Top - by Unknown - Japanese magazine "Photograph Gazette, May 1954 issue" published by Government of Japan., Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=17850644/Ginza in 1967 - By Roger W from Sarasota, Florida, U.S.A. - Tokyo - Chuo-Dori, CC BY-SA 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=60804070/Ginza in 2017 - By Gary - DSC08269 - Chuo-dori Ginza, CC BY-SA 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=40961932/Japanese young people in 1964 - screenshot taken from Japanese+youth,+Tokyo,+1964+(11).jpg/Japanese young people in 2017 - screenshot taken from https://www.google.co.jp/search?biw=1199&bih=746&tbm=isch&sa=1&ei=w2dXWpWxAcr08QXcjLHAAg&q=japanese+young+people&oq=japanese+young+people&gs_l=psy-ab.12...0.0.0.37755.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0..0.0....0...1c..64.psy-ab..0.0.0....0.ZsHKi1iiTEI#imgrc=VXhxXXgo1PeJ-M:/Fashions in the 1960s - screenshot taken from http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-uz4R-wZIivs/UO6nZB9w72I/AAAAAAACO5E/Ge5n6MmxZxM/s1600/Street fashion in 2017 – screenshot taken from https://medium.com/@TokyoFashion/japanese-street-fashion-2017-15-things-you-need-to-know-ab06eabfca39

電気通信大学 AE2Y II: Outlining review

Hello!

How are you? Here are some review notes for all of you about writing outlines. 

The picture at the top is an example - a screenshot of a finished academic presentation outline from a UEC Intermediate Technical English course. This is a good example of a presentation outline. 

When you do the presentation part of our latest Topic 3 writing and presentation assignment, I would like you to work from an outline, instead of scripted notes. 

While I posted some of this information earlier in the spring semester for AE2Y I, I have decided to add more to the notes and give you more here, as a way to support you further. 

Review 
First, what is an outline? An outline is like a guide or set of steps to what will be in a presentation or written composition (作文). 

Because of this, the language in an outline should be short - no complete sentences and only keywords and key phrases. It should be as concise (簡明) as possible.

Outlines are divided into an introduction, with main ideas, supporting points, and supporting details. 

Let's look at an example of an outline for a presentation comparing Thomas Edison and Nikola Tesla and their research with electricity. 

Parts to an outline
Introduction
The introduction shows the key to what the paper is about. It has a Roman numeral (ローマ数字) - always, Roman numeral I. 

例えば：
I. The research of Edison and Tesla with electricity

Note: Write this in regular type - do not put in italics or in bold. Also, do not put a period (.) after - this is a guide point, not a full sentence. 

Main ideas - first main idea
The first main idea should show the first thing you will treat in your topic. It will have a Roman numeral II.

例えば：
II. Edison 

Note: It should be as short as possible - even a key word. Do not put in italics or in bold. Also here, do not put a period (.) after. 

Main ideas - second main idea
The second main idea should show the next thing you will treat in your topic. It will have a Roman numeral III.

例えば：
III. Tesla 

Note: It should be as short as possible - even a key word. Do not put in italics or in bold. Also here, do not put a period (.) after. 

Supporting points
Your supporting points go with the main ideas, and they break down the main points. They will have capital letters with periods after (A., B., C., etc), and when typed, be indented around five (5) spaces. 

Let's look at an example of subheadings with the first main point about Edison:

例えば：
II. Edison
     A. Experiments with electricity
     B. Direct current (DC) research

Note: The supporting points should also be as short as possible - even key words are okay. Do not put in italics or in bold. Also here, do not put a period (.) after. 

Details
Details show, in a short way, some focused pieces of information about the main points. 

They have Arabic numerals (算用数字、アラビア数字), and are also indented five (5) spaces from the supporting points.

例えば：
II. Edison
     A. Experiments with electricity
     B. Direct current (DC) research
          1. Carbon filament
          2. Electric lamp

Note: The details should also be as short as possible - key words are okay. Do not put in italics or in bold. Also here, do not put a period (.) after. 

Not every supporting point needs to have details, but if they are important enough to be further broken down, then you should put in some details.  

Conclusion
The conclusion is a summarized sentence, or even phrase, that shows the final point of your topic. It will have whatever the last Roman numeral is in your outline. 

In the example of the Edison and Tesla presentation topic, this one has the Roman numeral V. 

例えば：
V. Overall impact of Edison over Tesla

Note: Like the introduction, main ideas, supporting points and details, the conclusion should also be as short as possible. Also - do not put in italics or in bold, do not put a period (.) after. 

Completed outline
Look at this example of a completed outline, with a title, labeled to show you what each part of the outline means. This is to show you what you should try for in your outline writing. 

While this example is a little small, you can expand it on your screen. Because this is a screenshot, you can also print this out:

Now here is the same outline, without the labels. This is how it should look when you hand it in. As this also is a screenshot, you can also print this out too:

So this is what the final versions of your outlines should look like - keywords and key phrases only! 

I hope these notes can help you with your outline writing. Good luck!

See you next week!

Images: Top - screenshot of UEC Intermediate Technical English course class handout page. All rights reserved/Other screenshots - personal handout pages. All rights reserved.

電気通信大学 ASE II: The future・未来

Hello!

How are you? Today let's look at some ideas about the future (未来). 

Look at this short video. It's the opening and closing credits to an animated cartoon from the early 1960s that was popular in the U.S. It was called The Jetsons and it was about an American family living in the future. What sorts of things do you notice in the video? 

What do you think of that?

Now look at the picture above. It comes from a magazine in the U.S. called Popular Science. It has been published for a long time, and this picture is from 1947. 

In one of their magazines from 1947, Popular Science had a report about the future. It imagined many things about it. How many of these things have become real? 

Every culture has its own ideas about what the future looks like. The Jetsons video clip plus the picture at the top are very some American ideas, especially after World War II, about what the future would look like. Would any of these ideas be the same as some Japanese ideas at that time about the future?  

Activity

Let's look at these other pictures from the 1947 Popular Science article. What do you think they imagined in these pictures? 

例えば：In the picture at the top, maybe they thought all our electricity (電気) would come from nuclear power plants (原子力発電所) in the future. 

1. First - let's try to imagine what they thought in these pictures!

2. Next - let's see where these pictures came from with a report about them. Go to the Popular Science website here to find out!

Have fun! See you next time!

Images: Screenshots of illustrations uploaded to Popular Science website. 

Uploaded for educational purposes only. I do not own the rights to these illustrations. All rights reserved to the copyright holder(s). 
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東京理科大学 A英3・情報工学科技術英語: Issues of the internet - phishing & hacking・インタネットの問題「フィッシング・ハッキング」

Hello!

How are you? Here are two videos for you today that go with our new topic about issues - with a focus on the problems of the internet. Here we look at two common, but serious issues - that of phishing and hacking. 

Activity

Here is the first video about phishing. Watch this as many times as you want or need. (Go to this link if you have trouble seeing the video directly here, or look for "Cybercrime Exposed: How to Spot a Phishing Scam", or go to https://youtu.be/pXp2RvA0SBU on YouTube)

Now answer this question about the video:

What are some things towards the end of the video that the speaker recommends you do to protect yourself against a phishing scam? 

Homework
Here is the second video about hacking. Watch it as many times as you need. (If you have trouble watching the video here, go to this link, or look for "How hackers really crack your passwords" on YouTube, or paste this URL: https://youtu.be/RtUvMJFP_IE)

Now answer these questions below:

1. In the video, what does the video host say about how passwords are stored?

2. What are lookup tables and rainbow tables?

3. What is salt?

4. What do dictionary attacks use?

5. What is a brute force attack?

6. According to the video host, how many passwords did a hacker crack 

*How many minutes did it take for the hacker to crack the passwords?

7. What did he say is the danger of being on an open wi-fi network without a password?

8. Why will some hackers set up free wi-fi points?

9. Why should you never give your password out over the phone?
10. What does the video host say is the best kind of password to use?

I hope these videos can help add more to your understanding of these issues. 

See you next week!

Image: By Santeri Viinamäki, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=53153294

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