電気通信大学 AE2Y I: Internet & smartphones ・インタネット・スマートフォン

Hello!

How are you? Today let's look at how we use the internet, specifically with smartphone access. This is a big topic right now, and one with many benefits - but also problems. 

Activity

Look at these pictures. How do you use the internet? Since so many of you have smartphones, the pictures mostly show internet use with smartphones. 

What do you usually use the internet for with your smartphones? Talk about the pictures and how you access and use it! When you're finished, talk about this question: 

What do you imagine are some problems with smartphone use? 

Watching videos & listening to music through YouTube

Using an online dictionary

Finding directions 

Accessing & using social media

Checking train & subway timetables

Making phone calls

Taking pictures or videos

How would you rank your access and use of the internet? What's the thing you usually do most on it? Have fun with these! 

Here are the board notes for the class on 4/16: 

Take care!

Images: Top – by Senado Federal - Livraria do Senado, CC BY 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=45433072/YouTube icon - screenshot taken from https://www.mobilescout.com/android/news/n91781/People-watching-billion-hours-YouTube-each-day.html/Online dictionary - screenshot taken from https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.atomic.apps.japanese.english.language.dictionary&hl=ar/

Google Maps icon - screenshot taken from https://www.searchenginejournal.com/3-ways-take-advantage-google-maps-ads/171767/Social network site logos - screenshot taken from https://makeawebsitehub.com/social-media-sites/ Train timetable site - screenshot taken from https://itunes.apple.com/jp/app/声でハイパーダイヤ/id379001449?mt=8/Person making phone call - screenshot taken from https://www.techadvisor.co.uk/how-to/mobile-phone/how-make-free-phone-calls-abroad-3654333/People taking selfie - screenshot taken from https://www.ericsson.com/thinkingahead/the-networked-society-blog/2017/04/07/the-smartphone-is-dying-again/

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電気通信大学 AE2Y I: Internet use・インターネット使い

Hello!

How are you? Today let's look at how we use the internet. This is a big topic right now, and one with many benefits - but also problems. 

Activity

Look at these pictures. How do you use the internet? Since so many of you have smartphones, the pictures mostly show internet use with smartphones. 

What do you usually use the internet for? Talk about the pictures and how you access and use it! 

Watching videos & listening to music through YouTube

Using an online dictionary

Finding directions 

Accessing & using social media

Checking train & subway timetables

Making phone calls

Taking pictures or videos

How would you rank your access and use of the internet? What's the thing you usually do most on it? What's next? 

Have fun with these! Take care!

Images: Top – screenshot taken from https://www.thesun.co.uk/tech/4860961/kids-at-14-years-old-35000-texts-and-30000-whatsapp-messages/YouTube icon - screeshot taken from https://www.mobilescout.com/android/news/n91781/People-watching-billion-hours-YouTube-each-day.html/ Online dictionary - screenshot taken from https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.atomic.apps.japanese.english.language.dictionary&hl=ar/

Google Maps icon - screenshot taken from https://www.searchenginejournal.com/3-ways-take-advantage-google-maps-ads/171767/Social network sites - screenshot taken from https://makeawebsitehub.com/social-media-sites/ Train timetable site - screenshot taken from https://itunes.apple.com/jp/app/声でハイパーダイヤ/id379001449?mt=8/Person making phone call - screenshot taken from https://www.techadvisor.co.uk/how-to/mobile-phone/how-make-free-phone-calls-abroad-3654333/People taking selfie - screenshot taken from https://www.ericsson.com/thinkingahead/the-networked-society-blog/2017/04/07/the-smartphone-is-dying-again/

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東京理科大学 A英3: Final writing assignment support post (Part 3)・期末作文のサポート(Part 3)

Hello!

How are you? Here is a third support post for any students who are interested in doing opinion writing for the final writing assignment (期末作文). 

You can take your ideas from the news - either from TV, or the internet, or newspapers or magazines - and you can base your topics on anything - politics (政治), society (社会), sports, movies, music, and so on. 

Task preparation

When writing your opinion, follow these guidelines:

First, show the issue or problem and where you first saw it or heard about it - on TV, the internet, radio, in the newspaper, and so on.   

After that, show what impact the issue or problem has or is having in Japan - with a certain type of people (for example, older people, or university students, or workers, or children, and so on), or in a certain area (the Tohoku, Okinawa, the Kanto, and so forth), or in a certain field or industry (companies, shops, schools, universities or other parts of the economy). Try to find out and show details (詳細) where you can. 

Finally, bring in your opinion of the issue or problem - what do you think of it, and what solution (解答、答え) would you propose for it - if you feel you can propose a solution or answer to the problem or issue? 

You do not have to do a big or heavy topic if you don't want to! Here are some ideas for you if you can't think of any on your own. Choose one (1) of these: 

• Voting (投票権) age - in Japan, it is 20. Should it be lowered to 18 years of age, as it is in many countries? 
• Tattoos - in Japan there is a big taboo (禁物) against them. But do you think they are really a big problem? 
• Smartphone access and use among children - this has become a big issue lately. Is it okay for children to get access and use smartphones, or should there be an age restriction (制限)? 
• Foreign immigration (移住) to Japan - this has also been a big question lately. Should Japan allow some numbers of immigrants (移民) to come in to help increase the numbers of workers?   

Good luck! I hope these ideas can give you something to write on if you can't think of what to do for our final assignment.

Take care! I look forward to reading your great writing on this task.

See you next week!

Image: By Louis Moeller - Own work, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=30508393