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Real Reality
Joined: 10 Jan 2003
Location: Seoul
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Yu_Bum_suk
Joined: 25 Dec 2004
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| I've started to take a real liking to confiscating cell phones. Few things work better for getting a kid's attention. If a kid's not paying attention and playing with her (it's usually a her) phone, and you take it away, every time during the rest of the lesson when she tunes you out she thinks of her phone, which redirects her attention to you because her phone is in your pocket. |
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PEIGUY
Joined: 28 Mar 2004
Location: Omokgyo
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| Posted: Thu May 05, 2005 9:38 am Post subject: |
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| any thoughts on why it's mostly women that play with there phones? guys do too obviously.. but, if you look around on the subway etc it's always women who are snapping photos etc.. |
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Vince
Joined: 05 May 2003
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| Bear in mind this study comes from a communication company. I think the bit about "post-digital" kids having a greater sense of responsibility to the community is overstated. The phones are just another way to play with their friends. |
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jaderedux
Joined: 10 Jan 2003
Location: Lurking outside Seoul
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| Posted: Thu May 05, 2005 5:49 pm Post subject: |
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Thank god in our school they banned them. Glad about that and when someone does bring one...I do the evil laugh and confiscate it and give it to their home room teachers.....woooohooo let the beatings begin....(overstatement)
Once in my special after school class one of my students phone rang and I answered it.
Gawd I love my job sometimes.
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Yu_Bum_suk
Joined: 25 Dec 2004
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| Posted: Fri May 06, 2005 12:48 am Post subject: |
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| any thoughts on why it's mostly women that play with there phones? guys do too obviously.. but, if you look around on the subway etc it's always women who are snapping photos etc.. |
It's interesting because I saw one study in the west that men like to show off ownership of things like cell phones much more, and women were more descrete about things like that - i.e. a man would more likely leave it out on the table whereas a woman would more likely leave it in her handbag - mind you, this was a few years back when owning a cell phone may have been more of a status symbol. I can tell you that with Korean girls it's the complete opposite. Can you imagine the social stigma of being the only middle school girl in class who didn't have a handphone? I guess it's the lynchpin of their social lives to a far greater extent than boys. Anyways, I've given up listening to ambiguous signals from management about confiscating students' property and now as soon as I see a phone is becoming a serious distraction I make a lunge for it. |
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Qinella
Joined: 25 Feb 2005
Location: the crib
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| Posted: Fri May 06, 2005 2:53 am Post subject: |
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| jaderedux wrote: |
Thank god in our school they banned them. Glad about that and when someone does bring one...I do the evil laugh and confiscate it and give it to their home room teachers.....woooohooo let the beatings begin....(overstatement)
Once in my special after school class one of my students phone rang and I answered it.
Gawd I love my job sometimes.
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I had a student who actually made a phone call in the middle of class. She thought that since it was her mom it was okay. So I grabbed the phone and talked to her mom for a moment in my horrible Korean and her mom's horrible English. It was funny for everyone except the embarassed student. |
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animalbirdfish
Joined: 04 Feb 2004
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| Posted: Sat May 07, 2005 7:44 pm Post subject: |
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| If a phone rings in my class the student gets to keep his/her phone, but the battery's mine. |
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desultude
Joined: 15 Jan 2003
Location: Dangling my toes in the Persian Gulf
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| Posted: Sat May 07, 2005 9:06 pm Post subject: |
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| PEIGUY wrote: |
| any thoughts on why it's mostly women that play with there phones? guys do too obviously.. but, if you look around on the subway etc it's always women who are snapping photos etc.. |
A lot of them are primping, using the camera as a mirror. They are also taking their own photos- a level of vanity a bit more extreme with women-or at least more publicly practiced. |
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weatherman
Joined: 14 Jan 2003
Location: Korea
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| Posted: Sat May 07, 2005 9:43 pm Post subject: |
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| I understand. I lost my phone recently. For two days I was out of contact with other. I lost a lot of numbers that need to be replaced. My office tried calling me once about a meeting and luckly I showed up, but not knowing about the meeting. The phone is my personal office. It sucks being with out one. |
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PolyChronic Time Girl
Joined: 15 Dec 2004
Location: Korea Exited
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| Posted: Sat May 07, 2005 9:48 pm Post subject: |
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When I worked in a high school, I confiscated cell phones all the time...the other foreign teachers and I would take their cell phones for a few days and then they also had to give us 3,000W to get it back. It's funny to see them ready to cough up the cash to get their phones back 
Mind you...we didn't keep the money ourselves. We put the money towards an end-of-the-year pizza party for the class that thankfully the bad kids had to pay for |
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