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Technology and You- Monday- 1st period
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throughaphaseThe class was back in the Danger Shopped computer lab, but instead of computers today they'd each find an iPhone and an iPad. It was kind of easy to figure out what class was going to be about right from the start with this course. The projection screen was back, too.
"So most of you have some experience with phones and tablets, which is awesome. So we're going to go a little more in depth," Kitty said. "Phones were originally invented as a form of communication. You could use them to dial someone's unique phone number to call them up and talk to them, no matter what the distance. In recent years that's extended to texting, which is the same thing, only you type messages at people. It's faster and great for when you're feeling antisocial, or just don't like talking to people. Now with smartphones, you can also download apps for a whole ton of different purposes, like watching movies and videos or reading or playing games or shopping. And the tablet is a bigger version of the phone, only you don't make calls or anything from it. Depending on what you're using it for primarily, you could get away with using a tablet instead of a computer.
"For your activity today, I want you to try calling and texting someone. We're in a simulated environment and you can't take these devices with you, so I've programmed in some numbers for everyone in this class. Call or text at least one person," Kitty said, and showed them on the projection screen what to press to do that.
"Then when you're finished with that, I want you to download at least one thing from the app store," Kitty said, and showed them how to do that, too. "There are some things you have to pay for, but plenty of apps are free. It's your choice what you want to get, because again, Danger Shop, yadda yadda it's not really real yadda, but get some things, play around, and get used to it."
"So most of you have some experience with phones and tablets, which is awesome. So we're going to go a little more in depth," Kitty said. "Phones were originally invented as a form of communication. You could use them to dial someone's unique phone number to call them up and talk to them, no matter what the distance. In recent years that's extended to texting, which is the same thing, only you type messages at people. It's faster and great for when you're feeling antisocial, or just don't like talking to people. Now with smartphones, you can also download apps for a whole ton of different purposes, like watching movies and videos or reading or playing games or shopping. And the tablet is a bigger version of the phone, only you don't make calls or anything from it. Depending on what you're using it for primarily, you could get away with using a tablet instead of a computer.
"For your activity today, I want you to try calling and texting someone. We're in a simulated environment and you can't take these devices with you, so I've programmed in some numbers for everyone in this class. Call or text at least one person," Kitty said, and showed them on the projection screen what to press to do that.
"Then when you're finished with that, I want you to download at least one thing from the app store," Kitty said, and showed them how to do that, too. "There are some things you have to pay for, but plenty of apps are free. It's your choice what you want to get, because again, Danger Shop, yadda yadda it's not really real yadda, but get some things, play around, and get used to it."