Friday, October 27, 2017
Journal Question #5
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About Me
- TGriffin
- I have been a language teacher (ESL/ELL, French) for 30 years. I have taught in public and private schools, immersion programs, refugee programs, adult/continuing education, elementary, middle, and high school as well as university. Currently I teach ELL at a high school somewhere in New England.
I think constantly on the phone is unhealthy.I often read books in my home, I have one phone, but it is broken.My parents always tell me Mobile phone is just a tool, my family do not like to use mobile phones, more time we will read.Let me live without a cell phone I may also feel a bit boring life, but the basic no effect on me.
ReplyDeleteI has three phone, but I don't needed, because I don't want use, and I think use phone is not bad, and I can one day not have phone.
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ReplyDeleteI look at the phone because I can quickly see some information and news, some of what I want to search for. You can also use the phone to quickly notify each other.
second question:
I think long-term look at the phone is not good, because it will hurt the eyes will cause harm to the body. But I can not have a cell phone in a day.
really?😄
DeleteWhen the world is developing, which means that everything is changing and because of that everyone will use smartphone. The first reason because you dont need to do anything i just need to look at it and u can find the answer immediately without asking or trying to find some help. Myself, i always look at my phone, everyday i use almost 8 hours but i dont use 8 hours without stop i use when i have free so i can talk with my friends. If a person, use too much and doesnt care about their healthy and use nonstop then of course it must be not good for their health and in the long terms it will cause a lot of problem.
ReplyDeleteI think that we use our phones when we are bored, at least that’s my case, and because we want to be connected with everybody.
ReplyDeleteI think that everything is unhealthy if you over use it.
I think sometime when you are boring you can to play phone games and text your friends，and i always watch movies with my phone every night.I think phone is make convient for everyone .For example when u want to talk something for someone you don't need to find.you can just send messages or calling..I think the important reason is phone can relax for us .So that is my idea.
ReplyDeletePeople always use phones to taxes others,and also some people like play some games and watch some movies to relax. Cause there are the easiest way to talk to communicate and relax, they don’t have to go to cinema and go to friends house to find them. Long time pass,people is dependent on phone, that is the reason you can see many people walk with their phones, and also it’s dangerous. I can live without phone, I always play basketball and keeping fit in the weekend. All in all people can live without phone as long as their friends didn’t use their phone all day.
ReplyDeletePersonally speaking. With the great galloping development of this modern world, gradually using mobile phones has become an indispensable part of our lives.
ReplyDeleteThe normal reasons for me to use my smartphone in the school usually are checking unfamiliar words, looking for information and texting my friends. For daily life, generally I use my mobile phone for fun and help my studying. I do not think I will miss a massage or something, because I do not addicted to applications and I do not have many massages. I do think it's unhealthy or dangerous to be constantly on the phone. And for me, I definitely can live without my phone for a day and even longer.
Nowadays, we are in a modern world, we pass most of information by internet data, and phone is already became a necessity in our life.
ReplyDeleteFor a personal speaking, I have to agree look at phone every day is not good, but for honestly, I can’t have a day without phone.
For now there are so many applications could be download on our smart phone, which can let as get lot of news faster, could make our contact more convenient even in another of earth. The main reason of I can’t leave my phone is my girlfriend is in China, we could only contact each other with cellphone with WeChat, and also lots of my friends are in China, and my families. If there is something really emergency, I can only know it by phone. So I think i can’t have a day without phone.
first I think that is very difficult question，Because it really affects learning, but it has brought a lot of convenience to our life.why we always look at phone,Because we are curious！that doesn't mean we're curious about phones.It is the word,evething news.And the second question,There is an old saying in China“Every wall has two sides.”The good point we can know a lot of new things，the bad point is Some bad people use their youthful ignorance to spread bad information.like Fraud and stole personal information……For example,when I was fifteen years old.I used pocket money to buy an iphone6s online，But I didn't buy it on its website，I spend 6700¥，Equal to about 1000 dollars.so you know that,After that I've been shopping very carefully online.the last question，I think that is ok ，because I don't have girlfriend.
ReplyDeleteI think I will not care about the new news, I don't have a girlfriend, I don't need to read information at any time，I think is unhealthy, it will hurt your eyes, maybe, but if I have a computer , I will don't care phone.
ReplyDeleteIn general, when I look at my phone usually is some massage come up. The phone can make us feel not boring at all. But i think we need to depending what time we can use the phone or can’t use the phone. And i think the phone is unhealthy for you use long time, it is bad for your eyes and your nerve. I can live without phone for a day because we are not like can’t do anything without the phone, but the phone can make the things be easier to done.
ReplyDeleteI think why do we like cell phones so much because it is value of modern electronic that we have many interesting apps at the Applestore such as Instagram, Snapchat, Wechat, and games. I think I can leave my cellphone for a whole day but not more than 2 days. I think the cell phone is dangerous but absolutely good device. I love it so much.
ReplyDeleteI think sometimes the people look the phone all the time because they wanted to be informed about all the news that are happening now. Also because they wanted to be communicated with the others all the time. There are some statistics that said that the persons check their phones every 46 seconds all the time.
ReplyDeleteIn my opinion to be looking the phone all the time is at some point dangerous because you are not connected to the real life and you can have an accident because you was in the phone, like a car accident or other accidents
Counting that my phone is pretty old and not powerful, the only things that I can use it for is reading and using social networks. On the breakers I don’t use my phone because it will make no sense, because 2 minutes is not enough to read some texts.
ReplyDeletePhone might be dangerous if you will constantly look to it for 4 hours, but using it for short time won’t affect your health. I definitely can say I can live without a phone all my life, if I will have opportunity to contact my mom.
Mobile phone, presumably we all know. Mobile phones have brought convenience to people's lives. However, everything has advantages and disadvantages. Mobile phones have even harmed people even more than smoking.
ReplyDeleteWhen people use mobile phones, mobile phones transmit radio waves to transmitting base stations, and radio waves are more or less absorbed by the body. These waves are cell phone radiation. In general, the phone radiates less during standby, radiates more during a call, and radiates the most when the cell phone number has been dialed but not yet reached. The amount of radiation is about three times the standby time. These radiations have the potential to alter human tissue, adversely affecting human health.
In these days, phones are popular. Base on statistics, there are more than 80% people in the world using smartphones, including Thornton Academy Students. Students use their phones during school time for many purposes such as studying, reading news, ... However, as can be seen, most of them use phone for entertaining purpose. This will help students to relief stress during the break of each block and relax. About myself, as an international student, different timezone is my problem. Morning is the best time for me to talk to my friends and parents in my home country. Of course, i will not spend lots of time to talk to them, and I definitely miss lot of messages, but studying is much important than answering those calls and messages. Hence, I barely answer any call during classes, especially in Mr. Griffin’s class.
ReplyDeletePhone can bring lots of benefit to users. However, using it constantly is really dangerous. Physically, phone’s screen contains a type of light that will cause eyes’ disease when you use it for a long time without relaxing. Also, using the phone constantly will waste lots of valuable time.
To be honest, i don’t think that i have enough patient to not using phone for one day. But i think i can still stay alive without it.
There is no doubt that everyone has cell phone, it is really convenient in our life. We take it go to school because sometimes it can help us find informations, connect people and even can get happy from cellphone. I don't think cell phones is unhealthy or dangerous, although some people get bad eyesight from cellphones. In my opinion, cellphone is kind of tool. And any tool need a correct method to use it. Pay attention to distance from the screen to your eyes, check brightness when you use your phone in a dark area. I have a good eyesight, but I used to use electronic devices to help me do something. I think cellphones is more good than harm, this why it appears to the world.
ReplyDeleteI think phone is a good invention.It made my life easier and more convenient.When I meet a problem in study or life,I will use my mobile phone to inquire information to solve the problem.It helps me to study.When I want give my friends news,I just use my mobile phone call to my friends or send a message.It’s pretty easy.When I feel tired,I can relax myself by listening to music on my cellphone.If you use phone reasonably,It’s not unhealthy.
ReplyDeleteAll in all,I think phone is important in my life and I will use it everyday.If not phone everything will be complex.
I think phone is a very necessary invention for people. It helps everyone easier in making new relationships and in normal life. We need our phone to communicate with other people, to update new information happens around us. I think cell phone is not really unhealthy or dangerous if we know how to use it in the right way. However, if we use it every day, every time, make it work too much, or keep it so close to our body at night will makes us in dangerous. It can be explosive or make our eyesight worse. That’s how I think about cell phone.
ReplyDeleteI have to look at my phone to talk to my family and my friends in Vietnam. Because Im studying abroad so technology is the only way that I can talk to them. I usually use phone to text, so if I don't text anybody or no one text me I won't look at the phone. I think it is not good for their eyes when people use phone too much. In addition, if the phone is used too much it will be broken soon. However, I like to talk to my friend in real life more than talking on the phone.
ReplyDeleteWhen I focus on this question. There are two sides about it. I am a guy who can totally throw technology out. I enjoy life and nature so much. But at this time, in a information transfer century. The information you can get from your phone is much more and easier than get from newspaper or what else. That's the good way. Make life easier. The opposite way. Make life too easier so people become lazy. You’ll lose your social without use your phone cause everyone is using that. Sometimes people understand spending too much time on the phone is not healthy. But that's the way the world is going now. Yo can’t avoid it. Only to fit it.
ReplyDeleteSometimes I have to look at my phone because I need to check the message or translate something by it but it just takes me a short time. Most of the time, I use my phone because there are things that I’m interested in.
ReplyDeleteUsing phone constantly is bad for our health because if we use phone for a long time,our eyes will get damaged. In addition,if we use phone too often,we will even lose our lives. For example,a person focused on a phone while he was walking and a pit was in front of him. As a result, he fell because he did not pay attention to seeing the road.
I think I can live without my phone for a day. If I go out to play with my friends or my parents, it will be easy to live without my phone.
ReplyDeleteNowadays, in such a modern world, digital devices have been developed very well. These things has become an indispensable part in our lives. For me, I use my phone to text my friends and have video call with my mother. Also, I like to watch videos on some applications. But the most useful thing for phones is to search subjects online. That makes everything much easier. I do think it's unhealthy or dangerous to be constantly on the phone. And for me, I definitely can live without my phone for a day and even longer.
In this modern society, I know that no one can pass one day without their phone. The technology is improving so fast. Now even the senior have their phone to text their friends. In my country, during the spring festival -our most important festival in the year, you still can see the family not pay a lot attention in the festival program or talking with other family members. It’s really bad. To be honest, I’m not really enjoy to text, post, or make some good video to share with someone. I usually use the phone to watch some movies, animations, or listen to music. But that’s true, I used to text all the time like some people. I realized that it has no any meaning for me and I always can talk with the friends around me. The telephones actually make people not healthy, not just for your eyes, even more about your thinking and behavior. The website not always tells people good things. Too many people like to use website to spread their negative energy. I’m sure it’s really bad for people’s mood. For myself, the most useful for a phone is let me take a break to watch something fun, so I think I will not mind to live a day without my phone.
ReplyDeleteIn 21 century, there is over 96% people have a phone. As the world famous company, Apple. Apple made over 74 billion for just sell iPhone. The phone is amazing. You can so many things. You can contact with your friends. You can share your story on Facebook or Snapchat. Now, there are so many things disappeared, such as walkman, paper maps etc. We can listen music on the phone. We can create a video on the phone. We even can FaceTime talk to our family members or friends. We also can pay on the phone. So we can see in the future, phones will replacement so many things. Now there have an app can translate over 200 languages. In the future you don’t need to learn other languages but you can talk to everyone. You also can learn on the phone. Now, we have Khan Academy, you can learn all kinds of knowledge that you want. Maybe phone even can replacement or overthrow the whole education system.
ReplyDeleteI don’t use my phone during class. For me phone is like a smaller computer. I watch videos, and play games on it. I don’t think it is dangerous or unhealthy to be using it. It is all depends on the person who is using it. If you use it will. The phone can help you a lot. It is very easy to do research by using phones. But on the other side. If you can not control yourself. It will be a terrible thing. You will always think about it. Sometimes it can make you can’t control yourself. So that will be bad for yourself.
ReplyDeleteNowadays, people tend to have a Smartphone by their side, not because they need it, but they want it. Same goes for our students. And I think the main reason that students can't take their eyes off the phone is because the phone has been part of their life. It's like the closest thing to them, and they can't helped staying away from the phone. And yes, they might think that they will miss a text, or a message. I think it's not dangerous at all, it's just annoying sometime
ReplyDeleteMobile phone is a sign of human progress, means fast and convenient, but we can't addiction, with my mobile phone for me only to contact friends and the dictionary, I will use mobile phone to download more aspects the documentary to learn, I think I can be a very good control of a mobile phone.
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ReplyDeleteThe technology developed very fast in modern society. The main lifestyle is internet, the internet give us lots of benefit around our life, we shopped online, play games online, even we do the homework online. I think the cell phone is the best devices to carry on. So as a student we can easily check our message, also we can find lots of funny stuff on different App in our daily life. However there solos has a huge disadvantages that is the myopia rate increasing very quickly. So I think the phone is a good device to make our life beautiful, but we still need to control the time we looking at phone.
DeleteWith the development of science and technology, many electronic products have appeared in people's lives, such as mobile phones, computers, ipad, etc. These things have brought convenience to people's lives. For example, you need to have any documents for others to see, you just need to take a picture of the phone can be used in the past.But cell phones also have a bad point, that is, it has a lot of radiation on the eyes of people particularly bad. So nowadays, many children bring their glasses when they are young. Some people walk to play cell phones, resulting in being killed by a car.If you go out today without a cell phone, your family will not be able to contact you.I think if one day without a cell phone may your family will not be able to contact you, there may be friends looking for your help but also can not contact there ...But cell phones also have a bad point, that is, it has a lot of radiation on the eyes of people particularly bad. So nowadays, many children bring their glasses when they are young. Some people walk to play cell phones, resulting in being killed by a car.So I think the phone is good or bad. Please use the phone wisely.
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Mr.Griffin
Everyone has their own phones,we use our phones to do many things.Texting with our friends,playing video games,calling our friends and our family,using Facebook or Instagram.We can use our phones to do many things. I think our phones are our another friend . He often stay with us.But I think we should not watch the phone 24hours. I think that's bad for us.It can make our vision worse.We should use the phone correctly.We can use cell phones,however,we must pay attention to our own health and safety.
I know that years ago the phone didn’t exist and year by year the phone is more popular and kids start to have one. I think that having a phone is important because you can communicate with your friends and your family because we are studying in a different community from were we live. But sometimes people use his o pr her phone for play video games and for me that’s not good because you have to enjoy your life without any electronic device.
ReplyDeleteI look at my phone because im talking with my friends or parents, and yes i think that the phone is dangerous but also it is necesary because is the new way of comunication
ReplyDeleteWe live in a new era that basically half of our lives are in the phone, when you aren’t in your home you talk with your parents and the rest of your family in WhatsApp or FaceTime because you want to talk with them.
ReplyDeleteYou use Instagram for share pictures to your friends and you want to show to the world where you are and what are you doing and of course you can see where are your friends and what are they doing.
I think that we are obsessed to it because of the new media and the text messages.
Thanks, everyone, for your comments on the mobile phone, which you use as a study aid, an entertainment center, a communication device, etc. My two cents: make sure you use the phone; don't let the phone use you.
ReplyDeleteI always look at my phone. Because I study in another country, I need to use my phone to connect my parents and my friends, knew news something about China and also learn English. I think phone is unhealthy if you use it to do something unnecessary all the time, it will hurt your eyes. But also it is a healthy thing if you use it in a healthy way, use it to learn something and always remember to control yourself.
ReplyDeletePhone is one of good technology, I use my phone all the time, when I study , I use my phone to search , when I sleep I use my phone to listen music, you can use phone to text, etc.
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ReplyDeleteI think phone is very important to. I can’t live without phone. Because phone make our life more convenience. Sometimes I use phone to check wechat and other App during class but not very often. And I think it is very healthy for a teenager to look up the phone every movement because it will affect our grades and make us got shortsightedness. I don’t recommend use phone lot of times a day.
I think the reason that students are focusing on phones all the time is to find a way to spend time. When you are looking at the phone, time passed really fast. I had read an article that said people using their phone to escape from things they think are boring. It’s the same as some people playing card games all the day. They are trying to escape from real life. However, the Ironically thing is, I read this article on my phone when I was doing homework.
ReplyDeleteFor the second question, I think it’s dangerous to be constantly on phone. Because it’s hard to get off from it. Most people knows that keep using phones are harmful, but they just can’t stop.
For me, I think I can live without phone for a day, but I am not sure if I need to live with out phone longer than that.
Phones are very popular right now.Almost every people have at least one phone.In this century we can almost do every thing on the phone like calling,booking room or buying tickets and so on.And many people they think their life is too boring they have anything else to do they need phones to spend time.I think it's dangerous to be constantly on the phone.First it's bad for your eyes and health and you will be further from your friends,despite you chat with them on phone.And I think I can live one day without my phone.I can go to the gym to do some excise or play basketball.Also I have many books to read.That's all.
ReplyDeleteI think the phone is important in nowday, because people have more conversation on the phone, and they can buy something in the Internet, watch the video or listen music and so on, and I think it is bad for our eyes, and keep looking on the phone, it will makes neck get hurt and headache, I cannot leave phone for hall day
ReplyDeletePhone is really important to me. With phone, I can get news from social media and especially from my friends. I can get it mostly everytime. When I’m stressed, I often play games, listen to music and read some short stories on my phone. Phone is one of the most necessary things that I need to have everyday but using phone too much will make our eyes worse and worse and we even get headache from it. Instead of spending times on phone, we should go out and play and get some fun.
ReplyDeleteAs the world is getting modernized, the new era of smartphones is taking over. Without a phone, I can not get news from the social media and also, it is harder to communicate with friends. For example, if I don't have a phone, I would have to go to my friend's room to find them to talk. However, if there is a phone with me, it is going to be much easier to know where they are. On the other hand, spending too much time on the phone can occur some serious problems. First, it will be eyes deficiency, such like myopic. Second, it can also cause addiction. For example, a person who spend too much time on social media that can make him hard to focus on anything else, even eating! To my opinion, having a phone is very essential for me but instead of having too much fun on things that are possibly not real, I would rather hang out with my friends.
ReplyDeleteI cannot live without my phone even for an hour, a day will kill me, I guess. Everyday I need my phone, to contact with my friends and play games. I have a lot of things that I need to do with my phone, actually it’s because I am lazy to charge my iPad for everyday, and I do not always remember to do it. So, actually, I am using my phone instead of the iPad, a reason is because phone is smaller, which means it’s convince and also, I thing There are too many things I shall bring for school, so…why not -1? That is why I call myself laziness, but in reality, the phone is saving me, cause we have these things called phones. ‘We are so lucky to have phone to use’, I think so.
ReplyDeleteOne of lots of reasons why I am fixed on my device is that I am waiting for a message or a phone call from someone who is important to me. I don’t know whether if it would ever come or not, and I also don’t know which way it would come, probably WeChat or iMessage, but I want to make sure I can respond to it as soon as possible. I even had a few nightmares and woke up late at night. The first thing I do when I woke up was to check my phone and every time I found nothing at all. But I am still waiting for it. That’s one main reason why I stick to my device.
ReplyDeleteAs you know I have many cell phones because I like something new so I buy a cell phone when they sold. I think the cell phone is very important and it’s so convenient for us. We can chat with our friends and parents. You know we are very far away from our family so we can’t meet them every time we want but use a cell phone you can do it. There are lots of Apps like Wechat, Instagram, Facebook and so on. We can talk and meet some person that we miss so much. I think I can’t live without a cell phone because I will fell unsafely when I lose my phone. There also have some disadvantages. For example, in China many people use cell phone when they have a meal and in a big party. There lost many communities when they social and a lot of children don’t know how to talk with someone face to face because of cell phone. I think we should appropriate use of cell phone.
ReplyDeleteFor me i think cellphones are important for me one of the biggest reason is I’m living on different country so without cellphone there is no way to call or text my parents or also to my friends who are in my hometown. I know some of the reasons phone is distracting us from school it is not dangerous but it isn’t helps with our study. I think i can live without phone for a week because I usually text my friends and my friends, I don’t play games so I’m not addicted to phone that much.
ReplyDeleteI think phone is important but not very important. If one day I don't have phone,I think is ok.I think many thing is interesting than play phone,such as play with friend,do some exercise,play basketball,play football play tennis and so on.So you should not use your phone long time,and is not good for your health
ReplyDeleteHere in America I have to talk to my family all the time because I have emergencys or I need to fix something with them even though I need to do it on class sometimes.I think I van live without a cellphone one day,I love doing outdoor activities and I agree is bad and can cause problems to you if you use your cellphone all day without doing exercise or getting at least fresh air
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