Unit 3 Digital campus
3-2 Text A: College life in the Internet age
Pre-reading activities 1
1.Traditional classroom:
Advantages: more direct communication between the teacher and students; a better learning atmosphere. Disadvantages: little interaction either among students or between students and the teacher; the teacher tending to dominate the class; writing on blackboard reducing efficiency
Multimedia learning:
Advantages: more vivid teaching materials; students better engaged in classroom learning.
Disadvantages: too many distractions with too many pictures and videos in multimedia classrooms
Studying online:
Advantages: being able to choose when and what you want to
learn; easy access to the wide range of online information.
Disadvantages: making it easier for students to copy answers from the Internet; lack of face-to-face communication between the teacher and students; the possibility for students to develop Internet addiction
2. I prefer the multimedia way of learning.    A multimediaclassroom is vivid with teaching materials presented in different ways: slides, pictures, and even movies. Compared with a traditional classroom, a multimedia classroom is more interesting.
To be frank, I prefer to study online. In. this way I can manage my own time. I can have my own priorities and do things at my own pace. It is simply what I want.
3. Yes. The Internet is indispensable in teaching and learning nowadays. It is hard to imagine what it would be like without the Internet. We would have no easy or quick way to learn about the latest development of teaching and learning. We would miss the many interesting online courses; we couldn't communicate
effectively with teachers after s ) class. We just can't afford to lose the Internet.
No. Teaching and learing had been carried out long before the Internet came into being. And people did just as well without the Internet or the compuiter, It is true that the Internet makes teaching and learning more convenient and more efficient, but it is by no means indispensable. I'm sure we can still teach or learn without the Internet.
Reading comprehension 1
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1.A fleet of laptops, smartphones and Internet connectivity 24
hours a day.
2. Wireless Internet access anywhere and anytime on campus.
3. Because smartphones could draw students' attention and encourage sophisticated thinking.
4. Because too much time online can mean too little time in real-life studying or exercising or visiting with friends. If we spend too much time online, we will be cut off from the real world.
5. They used the money to wire dorms with high-speed connections and equip their campuses with Wi-Fi networks.
6. Because the university was afraid that its technology was not as advanced as that of other universities, it gave away free Apple iPads to compensate for its inferiority in this aspect.
7. If a university can't keep up with the rest of the world, or if it can't provide high-bandwidth information as expected, it will be at a competitive disadvantage.
8. It is mainly because they want to provide students with the most advanced free system.
Reading comprehension 2
1. Yes, I think so. Internet access is a must on campus. We students need the Internet to do research for our study, to
reactions to the online manageobtain information to broaden our knowledge of the world, to communicate with family and friends, and to enrich our lives in our spare time.
No, I don't think so. There are many potential disadvantages if Internet access is so easily accessible o
n campus. Some students may waste too much time in playing online games or chatting online, be tempted to visit "unhealthy" websites, or even become Internet-addicted and neglect their study
2.It sounds like an awful idea to me. Obtaining knowledge is only part of learning. Learning not only gives us a wealth of knowledge, it also provides us with great vision, strong principles, social abilities, good manners, interpersonal skills and many more valuable attributes. This obviously cannot be realized by learning at home only with the computer.
I think it is a good idea that students can study at home via the Internet in the future. Learning would become more flexible and accessible. This way, college education could become available to many more people, old or young, near or far, healthy or handicapped.

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