Pick up an object near you and look at it. Really study it. Try to find some aspect of it that future generations might change or improve on it. Now imagine that it’s your job to market this new and improved object to the public. What do you say? How do you approach the futuristic masses with this item that could go so far in making their lives better? You can write this is the form of a short story, with descriptions, characters, and dialogue, OR as a speech.Due at the end of class - 300 words minimum.
Check out the new EyeFone. You may all remember the smartphones of the past from Apple. Like the iPhone, iPhone 4s iPhone 5c, and the iPhone 6, but those are all things of the past now. This phone is new, improved, and everything you’d ever want in modern day technology. Well everything plus more! This phone is a mini computer right in your hands. You can search everything and anything. You can now be your own hotspot and Face Time is a yesterday thing. Who wants to video chat when you can hologram chat? Now the person can be right in the room with you, visually of course. How can we make that better? Well I don’t know maybe if I told you they’re life sized! Yes, on the new EyeFone your friends and family are scanned and projected as the same size as they would normally be. All you have to do is pick which side of the phone you want to hang out on and boom they’re right next to you. Also, if you want that person to really be there just turn on the teleportation switch and they’ll be sent right to you in seconds. Why aren’t you out buying this phone yet? Oh wait, maybe it’s because you’re thinking “This phone is just going to break from one tiny drop just like all of apples products.” Well you’re completely wrong for thinking like a negative Nancy! This phone is shock proof, drop proof, water proof, crack proof, and flexible. And yes I did just say FLEXIBLE! We have really out done ourselves on this one folks. Your phone may feel hard as steel, but once you bend the corner it’s like a piece of rubber. We dare you to destroy this phone and if you succeed we’ll send you another one FREE! What are you waiting for? Come on out and get the new EyeFone. It’ll be the best phone you ever buy!
ReplyDeleteDo you remember when you used to have to take test on paper, using a pencil or pen? That was many years ago and I remember to this day that we had to use paper and pencil. You used to have to write out the problems and solve them yourselves. Now the newest thing is a tablet that you take your tests on. You can your test on the tablet without even picking up a pen or pencil. You have a calculator right next to the test on the screen. When I was in high school, we had a test, a pencil, and our own calculator. It was all separate, but now you can get it all on one screen, all at one place. It’s actually kind of weird that you can do that now because now all your scrap work and everything else just disappears after you answer the question and then you move on to the next one. Teachers have it easier now because the tablet grades the test themselves, so the teacher only has to teach the lesson, he or she doesn’t have to grade the test anymore. That’s less work for the teachers and there shouldn’t be an excuse that the teacher didn’t have time to grade the assignment. I can say that this is really going to help out in schools worldwide. I say this because it will just make everything so much easier for everyone, but these new students will never know what it’s like to take a test the way I had to when I was in school. But since technology is so advanced now, this is a great way to help students take test and a quick easy way to get them graded. Once you finish the test you will see your grade because the tablet does it right after. The students will be happy because they will see their grade and the teacher will be happy because they don’t have to grade it.
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ReplyDeleteOne day my daughter asked me what school was like for me when I was her age; she asked if it was the same as it is now. We sat down at the table and I explained to her all about how it was when I was her age school was very different. I explained how we had to use textbooks and carry them every day, and we used notebooks and binders to write things down. It wasn’t like today. Today ever student has an IPad where they can access textbooks from, they can take notes on and they don’t have to worry about losing their notes or worksheets because it’s all electronic. When I went to school we didn’t have IPad’s to use and access textbooks and our notes, we had to carry around heavy textbooks and binders full of things. When I went to school we had desktop computers and not for everyone either. The only thing they do the same is take quizzes and test on paper because it prevents them from cheating. I asked my daughter how she remembers what she has for homework and when she has quizzes and test. She looked at me and said we have an app for that. I just looked at her and shook my head, and told her we didn’t have apps to help us remember we had to write it down and look at it later to remind ourselves the computer didn’t do that for us. She didn’t really understand everything I told her because I’m not even sure if they even showed them what textbooks are. I told we didn’t have all these fancy things to help us get through school like IPad’s. I asked her how much she carries in her little backpack she takes to school she said not much just a couple of pens and pencils for test and some other little things, but not much. I knew by the look on her face she didn’t complete understand how school use to be before everything went to being on the computer.
It’s crazy how inventions have changed so much over time. Things that we have now today like the modern phones, laptops, desktops, flash drives, earphones, phone chargers, it’s pretty wonderful to think that we have this now, and back then hundreds and hundreds of years ago people didn’t have all that we have today that makes today’s living easier, entertaining, and safer. They is much more technology today, than there was many, many years ago. I sometimes think that I should be more thankful about the things I have that honestly do make my life easier instead of worrying about what more I want. Let’s start with my phone and computer- at home, without my phone I can’t imagine what I’d do. That is the only way I keep connected with all my friends back in my home town, from my phone I can send emails, do important tasks, and simply do things that back then, people didn’t have the accessibility to do. With my computer I can do things that I couldn’t really do with my phone maybe because of comfort ability and screen size. I’m so grateful for things like internet and just those things that we view as simple because we pretty much grew up with it but if you really about it, back then when people didn’t have it like we do, they would simply have do handwrite things. I am a type of person that I love to use lead pencils and I think about, they didn’t have that, they had to use ink and blot it on paper. No printers or computer were used like we have today. They couldn’t really store information simply on a flash drive like we do, until the invention of floppy disk was invented. It’s amazing to compare everything we have today, to life back then, not just in technology but so many more things.
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DeleteInstead of carrying everything in your pocket and not being able to be comfortable while out because of all of the utilities you want or need. There will be a new and improved book bag that will do a lot then the average book bag. This book bag can change the way you do things maybe even change lives. Most people walk around with big books and a large amount of papers and everything and maybe this can be aggravating, so why not use the new and improved book bag to do everything. This book bag can fit a lot of things, all you have to do is fill up the book bag and press the button. When you press the button the whole book bag and shrinks into a little book bag, the same size of a pack of gum. This book bag can be used with anything that fits inside of the bag. No more back pains for the middle schoolers, no more unnecessary paperwork. This can be used for every one of all sizes. This can be used for adults, babies, and the elderly and sometimes even toddlers. Most parents get tired of carrying maybe a child’s car seat and a diaper bag so why not get a book bag like that way it can go right inside of your pocket and only have to carry the baby/car seat. This can even be used for business purposes. Most business men have a lot of things to work on at once so a bag might be to distracting so why not have organized books bag that can be pulled out of a simple pocket and presented to whomever.
ReplyDeleteThe Future— isn’t that such a scary thought? What is it that the future may hold? What does the future have in store for us?
ReplyDeleteI think that as humans we are naturally inclined to feel a fear for the unknown, for things that have yet to come but yet we anticipate with great anxiousness. I often think about the future and what is to come and eventually what is it that will become of me/my life. It’s a very scary thought, actually.
Life has such a funny way of working out, things can change course unexpectedly and without any warning at all, forcing us to start over and feel helpless even. But just like that, good things can also come to us, suddenly and unpredictably, making the future worth waiting and anticipating for. Nonetheless, the future is quite a freighting concept to think about, primarily because nothing in life is guaranteed; absolutely nothing is ever really certain.
Think back to ten years ago, where did you see yourself ten years from then? I was about eight, in the third grade and we often got asked this question at school. The thoughtless, immature answers even, that I gave were nothing compared to how my life is now. And when I am asked where I see myself ten years from now, when I’ll be about 28, I honestly do not know- I have no way of really knowing. Because just as ten years ago I was an entire different person than who I am today, I will be a completely changed person ten years from now as well. All of the unpredictable circumstances and events in life mold us into different beings and steers our lives in different paths with each passing day, so it is not possible for me to actually have a set idea in mind for my future. As always, the basics are present- being successful, having a good career, having a family… but how? Doing what? With who? Where? -It is all part of the uncertainty of life and of the future- the scary, unpredictable future.
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DeleteWho here owns a computer or a laptop or have used one? Yes, yes, everyone in here has used one of those devices. Well if you have not, welcome to the 22nd century. These computers and laptops are so big and heavy. But not anymore we have created a new innovation that controls the atoms and electrons in matter. Yeah I am not going to get into all that scientific part of the product because I do not want to bore you all to death. The thing is the atom is now controlled to be able to save more data in them to increase the storage level to over the line ridiculous. This new invention brings ease to all those teachers, writers, and businessmen who no longer have to worry about the computer or laptop being overloaded with stuff. This is super safe not that you write or documents that you save will be lost or deleted the product is designed to keep everything safe. This new product reduces the size of the old product incredibly. Which makes laptops easy to carry around and since it is smaller it also weighs almost next to nothing. The Ipad air Pshhh. It weighs a ton compared to our inventions. Well if you are not convinced after this then I do not know what to say. You are going to be forced to buy the product so that you can see with your own eyes that it is the best thing out there.
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