Mona's L.E blog

In most cases, schools in Japan lack tools such as technology in studying environments. I was surprised to hear that only 9.9% of Japanese schools use some sort of technology in classes. This made me think deeply about how overall, Japan is considered a developed country, except when it comes to education. However, I was even more surprised to hear that ICU has a thing called "letterboxes" that are used when teachers collect the student's work, and when giving it back to them. When we saw the actual pictures of the letterboxes used in ICU, we were all shook. By looking at the picture, right away we could all tell the problem that causes this mess-the lack of technology. When we use paper instead of the online system, not only does it cause more trash, it may also get lost and lose it forever. Therefore, in a generation like now, where using the online system is not so hard, an effective way of handing in assignments is to use the online system. We also learned about ...

Through today's class, we learned how to organize our blogs and make it even better, based upon Mr.Paterson's advice on writing. Specifically, we learned that the basic structure of a good blog includes, ① 3 main paragraphs , with ② 1 idea for each , that includes a  ③ topic sentence for the beginning of each paragraph . We also read our classmate's blog, using a website called "Feedly". We first logged into our Feedly account, then changed a few things so that we would be able to use our blogs more effectively. We first added our classmate's blog accounts to the "feeds" section, then adjusted their names so that it would be easier to read it. In addition, we also took a look at the blogs that our classmates wrote. There are a few ways that we can use blog posts effectively, as Mr.Pateron explained. First, it is to read the blogs that were written by the people in your class, that you would not normally talk to. By doing so, you can have a differe...