Ask :le réseau social qui pose question « The Answer » Licence BY. SA . Auteur : llamnudds Ask.fm est un média social utilisé par environ 1,3 million de français dont la moitié sont âgés de moins 17 ans (médiamétrie, juin 2013). Le principe en est relativement simple, les utilisateurs communiquent entre eux en posant et en répondant à des questions. Mais depuis quelques jours Ask est aussi la nouvelle bête noire de David Cameron qui a appelé au boycott des réseaux sociaux « abjects ». Faire preuve de responsabilités C’est le suicide d’une jeune adolescente anglaise qui a fait déborder le vase pour le premier ministre britannique qui a appelé les parents à ne pas aller sur ces réseaux sociaux, responsables, à ses yeux du suicide de cette ado en particulier. Enfin, l’un des usages d’Ask qui m’a le plus touché a était d’utiliser cet outil comme une porte ouverte sur des jardins secrets. « Comment ça va toi aujourd’hui ? Les arpenteurs du web Dans mon cheminement sur la médiation numérique, le rôle d’arpenteur du web est essentiel.
a Google Translate experiment with language <cue 90s beat>Now this is a story all about how We can use TV theme songs to bring students ’round To seeing Google Translate for how it really makes Their writing and their reading, quite substantially fake <Tip beat 90s> Well, this is a story about how allWe will be able to use the theme song from the TV tower studentTo see how the Google translation is actuallyTo read and write their false much more You might notice that these “rap” lyrics (at least the first ones written by me for this post) sound familiar if in fact you rapped them as you read. Back in the day, The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air (1990-96) was the next-generation Cosby Show, but it was cooler than that. It had the family values, but also the rags to riches main character that so commonly causes both conflict and comedy. Add to that Will Smith (at the time part of DJ Jazzy Jeff & the Fresh Prince)’s narrative, comedic rap style, the Fresh Prince of Bel-Air hooked viewers of all backgrounds and ages. Like this: Like Loading...
In Wake Of Teen Suicides, Ask.fm Faces A “Myspace” Problem The teenage brain is not fully developed, say scientists. Specifically, the part of the brain called the frontal lobe, which houses judgment, insight, dampening of emotions, and impulse control. This is relevant in a discussion about building companies that target young adults, especially if those sites are social media outlets where users are allowed to participate anonymously, share positive and negative feelings, react to posts made by others, and otherwise quickly publicize any idle thought that comes to mind. And we need to have this discussion, calmly and rationally, because it’s clear social media websites play some role in pushing those susceptible to depression, self-harm and suicidal thoughts to take desperate measures. We need to address this situation, but not with the goal of blaming the Internet or social media or individual outlets, or sometimes even the bullies who can often just be children, too, making mistakes of their own. Two Schools Of Thought Need help?
TESOL or nothing: Unreal TV These ads, which have been recorded for a fundraising campaign for public TV in the U.S., mock reality TV and may serve as a springboard for debate in the English language classroom. If you want to use them in a conversation class, here are a few suggestions: Lead-in:Pair Ss up to talk about the questions: a) What are your favorite TV shows? Why do you like them? (If you don't like TV, why don't you?) Or... Give each S 3 blank slips of paper. Ask Ss to write the names of their 2 favorite TV shows and 2 TV shows they can't stand.Ss mingle to find someone who is very similar to them and sit next to their "TV soulmates".Listening/Viewing for gist: Tell Ss they are going to see two TV commercials to identify what they are advertising and what they have in common.Show two of the commercials and stop right before the white titles in the black background. Would you use these ads in class?
1 in 4 Young Adults Regret Social Media Posts [SURVEY] It's so easy to tweet, post or Instagram something in the heat of the moment. But sometimes, emotionally charged posts or questionable content can come back to bite you. That could be why a new survey finds about one in four young adults fear they'll get fired or turned down for a job by employers who see their more risqué social-media posts. Legal-information website FindLaw.com conducted a "demographically balanced" survey among 1,000 American adults, asking them questions about their behavior surrounding Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, Pinterest, Tumblr and other popular social platforms. Among younger adults aged 18 to 34, 29% said they have posted a photo, comment or other personal information they fear could compromise their current or future job prospects. This concern is driving some to take down photos or posts: About 74% of 18- to 34-year-olds have removed something to avoid "negative reaction" from an employer or prospective employer.
The Purple Pug: An open letter to the mother of the boy bullying my son... This letter is to the mother of the boy that is bullying my son at summer camp. You do not know me, nor do I know you. I have no idea what you look like, where you live, what you do for a living, what kind of car you drive or whether or not you are a good mother. I have crossed your path under circumstances which I wish were different. You do not know my child. Your son is a year or two older than mine. I arrived at camp this morning and was surprised to be pulled aside by the Director. I got the boys into the car and I casually asked him if that boy had bothered him today...He said "yes." I got back into my car and started the drive home and then my son dropped the other bombshell-your son told my son that his Minecraft baseball hat was "gay" and that he was "gay." Again, I do not know you. I cannot quite put my finger on the feelings I have for you~maybe rage, pity, disgust, confusion. I hope this serves as a reminder to all of us to teach our children kindness and right from wrong.
Au Japon, près d'un adolescent sur dix accro à Internet Pour près d'un collégien ou lycéen japonais sur dix, Internet est une drogue. C'est ce que révèle une étude conduite durant six mois par un institut rattaché au ministère de la santé auprès de 100 000 d'entre eux : 8,1 % souffriraient d'une dépendance aux échanges de messages, jeux ou autres activités en ligne. Autrement dit, ils seraient incapables d'arrêter sans y être forcés. Pour qualifier et quantifier ces cas extrêmes, les chercheurs ont posé une série de huit questions symptomatiques et défini la dépendance comme correspondant à une réponse positive à au moins cinq d'entre elles. Par exemple : "Avez-vous déjà mis en danger ou brisé des relations importantes avec des personnes à cause d'Internet ?"" Compte tenu des réponses obtenues, l'institut évalue à plus d'un demi-million le nombre de collégiens et lycéens nippons souffrant de cette nouvelle pathologie, avec des pourcentages plus importants pour les lycéens que pour les collégiens (9,4 % contre 6 %).
15+ different Vocabulary Methods (How to teach words) A key to learning any new language is new vocabulary! There are so many ways to SNOWBALL FIGHT Get students to have a blast throwing around paper in class and then answering vocabulary questions! students to improve their vocabulary by really thinking about what word someone is trying to get you to guess with rhymes! Try using a dictogloss with vocabulary.
Broadcast Yourselfie: How teens use social media and why it matters to you inShare179 If you want to know the future of technology and its impact on society study how younger generations interact with one another today. With the sting of a face palm, you’ll experience a sheer rush of humility as you realize that everything you thought you knew about tech is simply nascent compared to the sophistication of digital natives. My advice to you is to study it.right.now. To help Pew Research Center published a new study that examines teens’ social media privacy management and overall behavior. A Crazy Little Thing Called Privacy If you think about it, Generation X and to some extent the older side of Generation Y, are the last to know privacy as it was. According to Pew, teens share more information about themselves on social media than ever before. 91% post a photo of themselves, up from 79% in 2006. 71% post their school name, up from 49%. 71% post the city or town where they live, up from 61%. 53% post their email address, up from 29%. 82% post their birth date. Why?
Creative Guided Story Writing Jul July 10, 2013 | 2 Comments I’d like to share a guided writing activity that I adapted for my classes. Give students a card and ask them to read the instructions. Tell them they are going to invent a story about what happened to the characters on their cards. Give them the pre-prepared questions and ask them to answer the questions Tell them these questions will guide them to write their stories. You can even give them the characters from the novels or short stories. I prepared a Google document for the instructions and another for the questions and I’ll add more when I come up with an interesting idea. Note: You can prepare your cards on powerpoint slides and save them as JPEG, print and laminate them for many uses.
4chan is trolling a dead teen's memorial page Even in death, 14-year-old Hannah Smith can't escape her bullies. Only this time they're from 4chan's random imageboard, /b/, the forum behind some of the Internet's most depraved and sadistic pranks. On Friday, Smith’s 16-year-old sister found her dead in her home. For weeks, Smith had been bullied on the question-and-answer site Ask.fm—trying to defend herself against anonymous users encouraging her to kill herself and, in a morbid callback to Canadian teen Amanda Todd’s well-publicized 2012 suicide attempt, to "drink bleach." Smith, of Lutterworth, Leicestershire, is the seventh teenager in the past six months who has committed suicide after being bullied on the Latvia-based social media site. Smith's Facebook remembrance page has collected more than 47,000 likes. The thread, which was started at 11:27am ET, instructs /b/ to "fire up fake accounts" in order to seize the "opportunity for an epic win." Warning, there’s some truly obscene and disturbing language here:
Come on – convince me! How to structure a professional argument. | The Business English Experience I recently taught a group of very challenging learners – scientists from a research organization who are experts in renewable energy sources. They are all highly intelligent individuals – rather intimidatingly so- and I had a great challenge in designing tasks which would meet their needs. The reason? They all play completely different roles in the organization and there is no direct overlap in the tasks they performed. After conducting a needs analysis with them – which required an extra amount of prodding and probing in order to draw out ideas of how we could structure their training, I was able to identify a number of language strategies which they all need in their roles. One very interesting point which they all raised was that they wanted to use more complex structures and speak in much more complex sentences. Here’s my take on how to prepare a convincing argument, whether it be part of a meeting, a negotiation, making sales or when dealing with conflict situations. Like this:
Teens Haven’t Abandoned Facebook (Yet) When we released our “Teens, Social Media and Privacy” report in May, one thread of news coverage focused on teens’ “waning enthusiasm” for Facebook. This theme surfaced during our focus group discussions with teens and stood in contrast to the excitement that was associated with newer platforms like Instagram and Twitter. We were not the first to suggest that teens were starting to diversify their social media portfolio, and as such, our report became part of a larger meme that swiftly declared Facebook’s imminent demise. But sampling other items at the social media buffet is not the same as swearing off salad forever. While some of our teen focus group participants reported positive feelings about their use of Facebook, many spoke negatively about an increasing adult presence, the high stakes of managing self-presentation on the site, the burden of negative social interactions (“drama”), or feeling overwhelmed by friends who share too much.