Technology isnt that bad!

Comment 7: Technology isnt that bad!

Saying that technology is a subject without an exit is living in the past, nowadays, all these things we do in our daily routine are monitorized by robots, from eating (by intelligent bands) to sleeping or running. And, of course, if studying this could bring you a good job and a good salary, we should study this things at school.

Like the video in this post shows, at IES Mediterraneo, we have been studying robotics since 2016, a subject where we learn how a robot work, and we make our owns robots and video games. When I first came to this school, I saw that subject and I thought it could be an incredible chance to bring the things I love to the school, and study it like a hobby more than like a subject. I´ve been studying robotics for 4 years, and now I think I can do very well at the subject. It´s interesting to see how the world is changing and learn how to take advantage of that.

In summary, to all the people who don´t really knows if it´s ok to study this or it is useless, of course it´s useful, it is a thing that can help you in a future that isn´t too far, and maybe, can give you the chance to get the job you´ve always wanted.

Night shoppers

Comment 5: Night shoppers, the new trend!

Sleeping is an essential thing in our lives. If we don´t sleep well, we´ll have problems during all the day, so that´s why we should try to sleep well, keeping a schedule and trying to avoid things that can let us not fall asleep.
Nowadays, one of the things we use everyday and every time, and that causes us insomnia is the mobile phone and other technologies. The light of its screens makes us be in alert, so our brain decides that we shouldn´t go to sleep yet. It is a problem, because work or doing homework before going to sleep, won´t let us sleep as well as we should do.
Many people don´t know or don´t care about this, so they stay with their mobile phones until very late in the night, and with this, they sleep badly.
Other people even buy at night, because at that time, few people are buying, and so you have more offers and products to choose in some pages, without the nerves of losing the offer. It can be good to save money, but with this, you are damaging your health, and you may have problems in your daily routine.
In summary, mobile phones and computers help us in a lot of things, even in saving or earning money, but if with this you are losing other things like your own health, you shouldn´t use them during the night.

Digital money

 Comment 4: Digital money, a good option to invest?

Some years ago, all the people only have cash as a way to pay in shops, but nowadays, this is probably less used way. With the technologies and the Internet, other ways of payment have come too. Now, we can buy on the Internet, and to pay we use our credit cards or other methods like PayPal. This is very good, because you don´t have to carry any money, and if you need more, you don´t need to go to a bank, just use your credit card.
Most people use these methods, but others don´t trust them, because they think the can be cheated. This is true, there are many pages that may want to cheat you, but most of them don´t want it.
After credit cards, other metods of payment have come too, they are called digital coins, and are becoming more and more popular year by year. These are other payment methods, but a bit different. You can obtain these "coins" buying them or, instead, mining them. Mining digital coins is using your device to recopilate information for a company, and they reward you with digital coins. There are many famous digital coins, but the most famous and profitable is the Bitcoin. You can sell these coins and obtain real money, but you should be careful because the price of these coins is in a continous movement, always decreasing or increasing, and if you sell the coin when its price is very down, you´ll lose a lot of money.
All these methods are very new, and all of them help you to have an easier life, but nowadays, we are still depending on cash, because some shops don´t accept credit cards and it is easier to pay with money when the value isn´t very big.

How to be a champion

 Comment 3: How to be a champion

People usually entertain themselves watching sports matches, or actually, e-sports matches. Some people think that these players are fortunate, they win a lot of money and they don´t have to do much, just playing what they like. This isn´t as they think, football players have to be fit and train a lot of hours every day. In e-sports it´s similar, to be a good player that plays in world tournaments and in important teams, you have to play the videogame you want to improve in for more than 10 hours every day. This can sound easy, but staying more than 10 hours in front of a screen, playing the same game and doing the same things, day by day, destroying you phisycally and mentally. That´s why e-sport players only play for 4 or 5 years, they finish very tired of the game and after a few years, they don´t do as well as before.
Nowadays, the best teams have a big pression in each category, for example, in football, a year or two ago, Real Madrid was one of the best teams of the world, but nowadays, it isn´t a very good team, fans have criticised them a lot and this has probably affected the team, so it is hard to be the same team after all that has happened .
In tournaments you have to think about a lot of things, how well you are doing, how your team is doing, what I can do if I'm doing bad, what the public is saying, etc. So some times this is very hard for the players, and we should try to understand them more than we do.
In summary, being a famous player can be amazing, but like everything, it isn´t perfect, and it has its disadvantages.

Beware of online frauds

 Comment 1: Beware of online frauds

Nowadays, we can do most things on the Internet, from posting pictures on social network, to buying things or even work. But you must be careful, because it´s very easy to be cheated. At the time of shopping on the Internet you must check some things, here I´ll leave some tips to prevent being cheated:
1º- Check if the webpage is the real one. Some people copy official webs so that is very difficult to differentiate the official site from the copy. One way to prevent this is looking at rhe URL, if it is safe, you are in the real page, but if it isn,t you are on the fake.
2º- If you are going to buy on webs like Aliexpress or Ebay, always check the opinions of the product you are going to buy, if it has many bad opinions, you shouldn´t buy it, because probably it isn´t the product that is in the photos or it is a fraud.
3º- Avoid buying on strange pages. Sometimes, you find an amazing offer that discount a lot of money from the product, but you must be careful with this, if it is a safe page buy it, it will be safe, but if you don´t know the page you should investigate about it first, and then, decide if buying it or not.
Using these tips, you won´t have any problems buying things on Internet, and you will be able to buy anything with total security.

Social networking sites are the best way for teenagers to communicate

Wr-15: Social networking sites are the best way for teenagers to communicate

   Mobile phones are everywhere, and everyone owns one. They can be an excellent tool for people who know how to use them. But, what about teenagers?

   Firstly, they can help them at the time of studying or doing their homework because they can search information on the Internet or ask their partners. But if you give a teenager a phone, he will probably do other things. Most teenagers use these objects to communicate or play, and that is very good because they can talk with friends or relatives even if they´re far, but it has disadvantages, too.

   Continuing with the disadvantages, teenagers depend a lot on mobile phones, especially at the time of communicating. They´re losing social abilities, and if it continues, they might be only able to communicate by social networks. Nother disadvantage is that on the Internet you can have a lot of friends, what makes you lose the feeling of having a true friend, because you´re always talking with different people that you won´t probably ever meet.

   In summary, mobile phones and social networks have changed our way of communicating, but I think that we must remember the traditional way to communicate, because at the end there is nothing like meeting your friends in the real life. 

 

 

Loliness, isolation, teenagers, sex.

Comment 17: Loliness, isolation, teenagers, sex.

We live in a world where everyone can connect to Internet at any moment, and this can be a problem for children who start using this tool. Internet is a really useful place, if you know how to use it, but if you don´t know it, it can be very dangerous. There are a lot of people on Internet that only want to hurt others, and you must be careful with them, so if you´re a child, you don´t know the existence of them. Leaving aside the problems that can happen on the Internet, there are other problems that can affect you physically, like vision problems or social problems. The last ones are generated because kids stay at home playing video games, watching videos or doing other things with computers and mobile phones, so if they´re always at home, they won´t relate with other kids and even it can affect their health. But with all these problems, Internet has many good things, like all the information you can find in it or the way in that it makes it easier for you to communicate with people. So, if you know how to use it and the dangers it has, Internet can be a wonderful tool!

Screen overuse

Comment 13: Screen overuse

We live in a world with screens everywhere. All the people have at least one screen in their houses, and they spend a lot of time watching at it. It can be a good way to spend the time or relax from school or work, but sometimes, it can be bad for your health. When you spend a lot of time watching at a screen, your eyes blink less than normal, and with this we can get ocular dryness. This illness affects especially young people, because they´re the ones that spend more time looking at a screen, so they will be more informed of what can happen to them. It´s good to spend time with ITC devices, but you don´t have to forget what can happen to you, and you must be careful with your health and you shouldn´t spend too much time looking at a screen.

Buttons, part of our digital world

Comment 12: Buttons, part of our digital world.

A button is a part of an object that has the function of doing an action. There are buttons in practically everything, there are buttons to control the TV, gamepads, keyboards, or even in microwaves or in washing machines. Yes, these are things you use every day, but you have never stopped to think in the number of buttons that one of them can contain, or in the way they make your life easier. There are buttons of many different forms, circle buttoms, small buttoms, big buttoms, etc, but all of them make the same function. This little invention is really useful, because if it wasn´t there, you would have to plug the microwave´s wire to electricity and unplug it when you finish using it, instead, pressing buttons you can make your microwave work or stop. Buttons are really useful invenctions!

Generation Z

Comment 7: Generation Z

Generation Z is the name of the generation of the people who were born from 1995 to nowadays. It´s special because the people who belong to this generation were born with technologies, and they know how to use them. People think that Generation Z only are only at parties and drinking, or with the mobile phone or playing video games, but they dont´only do these things, there are a lot of intelligent people of this Generation, and other people do many things with phones,even so there are people that work with their phone, because there are many different kinds of new jobs, like Influencers, that upload photos on their accounts, and they are paid for that, or YouTuber, that upload videos to YouTube and it pay them. There are also works with videogames, like professional players or streamers, that make a stream of a video game. Generation Z is very different from the others, because we live in a technological world, but you dont have to forget that we are the future of the planet, and we aren´t as bad as people say.

The subject of Robotics

Comment 6: The subject of Robotics

I´m in the subject Robotics, and I think it´s a very interesting subject. We live in a world full of technologies, and if we don´t know how to deal with them, searching for a work is going to be very difficult, so if we learn how to treat with an arduino board or with a programmation system from a very early age, we are going to be better with them when we are adults. I think that nowadays, subjects like this one are the ones that are important, so if we are so lucky that we have the possibility of having this subject at our school, we must take advantage of that.
Finally, I think that more subjects should use the ITC tools and teach the students how to use them.
Congratulations to The IES Meditterraneo, it´s a deserved distinction!

Plastics and Dumbphones

Comment 5: Plastics and dumbphones

Nowadays, everyone has a smartphone, a laptop or other thing that you can use to connect to the Internet. Phones are new inventions, fifty years ago, many people didn´t have a phone, and many other others had a landline. The telephones they had aren´t like the telephones we have today, they weren´t tactile, so they had a keyboard and you could only call or send a text, they didn´t have internet or other apps, they were the called dummbphones.
Most of phones are made of plastics, a material that comes from petrol and has a lot of uses. Everyday, you use a lot of things made of plastic, like bags, glasses, etc. I´ts really a useful material, but it has a problem, it is destroying the planet. There are plastics everywhere, in oceans, in forests, in cities... If we don´t recycle them, we are going to destroy the planet, and with it, the humankind.

 

Virtual or real relationship?

Comment 4:Virtual or real relationship?

Relating with one another is a basic thing in our lives and in the society as we are talking. You can meet people in many diferent ways. Technology has advanced a lot, even to the point of being able to meet people while you are sitting in your sofa. Today you can join a lot of online chats and download a lot of apps to talk with people that are far from you. Everyday you talk to a lot of people you don´t know, playing online games, going shopping or calling to any technical service. Meeting people online is a good way to make friends, but you must be careful, because you don´t know if the person you are talking to is the one who he says. Finally, I think that meeting people online is a very good way to talk to others, but that will never replace a real relationship, because there are many things that you can´t do online, like meeting your friends in the park, playing football or going out to eat, real relationships are much better than virtual relationships.

Shopping Online

Comment 3: Shopping Online

I usually buy online every week, it is very easy and comfortable. I buy online because you don´t need to move to the shops, and in my case, I need to move to another town, too. Another advantage is that, sometimes, the objects are cheaper online than in a physical shop. It has many inconveniences, too, like you don´t know if the object that you have ordered is the object that you are going to receive. Finally, I think that it is a very useful way to buy, but you must be careful.