Japan’s teacher robot ”Saya” expresses her surprise on her face during a demonstration by Hiroshi Kobayashi, Tokyo University of Science professor and Saya’s developer, at his office in Tokyo, Japan, Wednesday, March 11, 2009. First developed as a receptionist robot in 2004, Saya was tested in a real Tokyo classroom earlier this year to a handful of fifth and sixth graders, although it still can’t do much more than call roll and shout orders like ”Be quiet.”
In the house
of Mr and Mrs Spouse
he and she
would watch teevee
and never a word
between them spoken
until the day
the set was broken.
Then ‘How do you do?’
said he to she,
‘I don’t believe
that we’ve met yet.
Spouse is my name.
What’s yours?’ he asked.
‘Why, mine’s the same!’
said she to he,
‘Do you suppose that we could be - ?’
But the set came suddenly right about,
and so they never did find out.
-Eve Merriam
Extra reading:
http://rs606.rapidshare.com/files/244281076/TechnologyExtraReading.zip
Vocabulary presentations:
Gabriela G.:
- keyboarder
- techy
Abigail, Verónica and Mariel:
SRY- HPY BDY- CU L8R - CU 2MORO - I LUV U - GR8 - CU 2NITE - R U OK? - HOW R' U?- W8 4 ME
Juan, Manuela, Ángela and Rocío:
Mozilla Firefox and Internet Explorer: toolbar, back, forward, home, reload-refresh, stop, print, search, bookmark-favourites, hyperlink, address bar, menu bar, browser, scroll bar
Luciana, Estefanía and Gabriela C.:
Silvana:Kb- Mb- Gb- www- wysiwig- qwerty- DOS- Mhz- TFT- RAM-ROM- OCR
Some word to remember: flip phone, to text, search engine, keyboarder, techy, pop up, PDA, hyperlink, laptop, off-peak, icon, site, screen...
