Sep.4 week.

1. SoRa Jeong

2. Smartphone can make people idiots, life dangerous

3. Whenever U go to the movie theater like 'CGV' or megabox etc., U can see the 3D screen Ad says that 'Technology will make people free'. When I saw the ads, I wondered that It is real. I think, This time is too early to evaluate the utility or the ad. But Warning of this news is worth listening.

Smart phone is hot issue in Korea. Many related industries thrive and people feel mad to get one. We should keep asking to ourselves that it is really giving our life satisfaction. Besides We should doubt that our needs about new technology really come from ourselves', not others'.

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5. When television was invented, some people feared that television would make people stupid. When the computer was invented, some people worried that the computer would make people fool. Now, it’s smartphone’s turn. Some people worry that smarphones are making people dumb.

 

“Everyone I know has a smartphone. Some people I know have more than one. Our need for constant internet access, email, instant messaging, Twitter, Facebook, and texting has gotten to the point where it’s actually distressing to people to turn the phone off and let the world go for a while,” said Zdnet.com columnist, Scott Raymond.

 

His message may be a food for thought for growing smartphone addicts in South Korea too.

 

Raymond believes that it all has come from people’s “greed” to have information “at hand.”

 

“We did this to ourselves, and we keep asking for more. A combination of the next new shiny, the need/desire for more capability, and convergence of devices and services pushed the mobile phone in a direction that the original portable cellphone manufacturers never even conceived of.”

 

And also a lift style that can’t do away with all this smartphone-supported conveniences.

 

“These days, we have video communication, we can surf the internet, listen to our music, play games, read books, watch videos and dozens of other things.

 

“But this functionality has come at a heavy price,” he warned.

 

There are people getting killed in car accidents because of texting while driving. Something that usually requires both hands and visual attention쭯the two primary factors necessary for driving, he said. “The smartphone has become such a distraction that people are dying because they needed to update their status on Facebook.”

 

“This needs to stop. We’re turning into a world of inconsiderate, oblivious idiots, more interested in what’s on a tiny handheld device than what’s right in front of our faces. If an oncoming car happens to be what’s right in front of our faces, we would have no one to blame but ourselves when the inevitable happens,” he argued

 

He concluded. “Maybe someday we can get rid of the smartphone. I would be completely fine with an old-style cellphone that could act as a wifi access point and had 3g/4g network access.”

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7. http://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/biz/2010/09/123_73489.html

Sep. 11

1. Jeong So Ra


2. Students stay connected with parents

3. College students being away from their parents can contact with many technology strategy like text messages or online chat. It is different scene from past. which is caused by technology improvement. it will increase number of cases that technological ways contribute human's life.

Sometimes, some experts are concerned about dependency of teenagers to their parents or weak self-esteem that may be brought about by frequent contact between them. But I think that people who are able to lean on are very important for college student in long distance from their home.

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CHICAGO -- Nineteen-year-old Taylor Matichak calls her mom several times a day, in between the flurry of text messages they send one another discussing academics, social life or just daily chit-chat.



Though the sophomore at the University of Missouri in Columbia spends most of the year more than 300 miles from her family‘s Plainfield, Illinois, home, the distance seems to evaporate with technology.



“I like it because we can stay close,” said the teen, who says she initiates most of the calls and texts.



It’s profoundly different from the college days of her mother, 52-year-old Debbie Matichak, who remembers waiting in long lines at her dormitory pay phone to make the obligatory Sunday collect call home.



Keeping in touch with parents was more expensive and time-consuming when she attended the University of Denver three decades ago. But as college students prepare to descend on campuses in the coming weeks, many are finding that with the ease of cell phones, unlimited text message plans, e-mail, Facebook, and Skype, they can have near-constant access to mom and dad.



“It‘s changed the experience of being away at college,” said James Boyle, president of College Parents of America, based in Arlington, Va. “A generation ago, when your parents said goodbye and drove away, many (students) didn’t see their parents again until Thanksgiving.”



But some experts fear this communication shift could hamper the independence of older teens at a time when they traditionally come into their own.



“Sometimes these students are not being as autonomous or self-sufficient as they should be,” said Barbara Hofer, psychology professor at Middlebury College in Vermont and co-author of the book “The iConnected Parent: Staying Close to Your Kids in College (and Beyond) While Letting Them Grow Up,” which is being released this month.

“Staying close is different than being dependent,” she said.



Her 2008 study of students at Middlebury and the University of Michigan found that students on average contacted their parents 13 times a week, mainly via cell phone calls and emails, though text messaging and Skype seem to be growing in popularity.



Another problem dips into academic dishonesty: Hofer said one in five students reported having their parents edit their papers online, a practice that might violate the honor codes of many colleges and universities. While helping a child with a paper at the kitchen table in junior high or high school might be appropriate, sending a paper back and forth for editing can amount to the parent doing all the work, which means the student isn’t learning to do it alone, Hofer said.



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