Questões de Inglês

Why m-learning?

m-Learning is reaching a new kind of user through:

 

1. Convenience: accessible from anywhere (bus, class, laundry room) to content including quizzes, journal entries, balance sheets, learning games.

2. Collaboration: best learning takes place when we share and get immediate tips and feedback.

3. Portability: stacks of books are replaced by RAM with learning experiences customized and connected (Reviews and summaries chunked for on-the-go access).

4. Compatibility: designed learning especially for mobile devices.

5. Engaging/Fun: combine gaming and learning for a more entertaining and effective experience.

Disponível em: <http://www.grayharriman.com/mlearning.htm>. Acesso em: 31 maio 2012.

A m-learning permite que

Why m-learning?

m-Learning is reaching a new kind of user through:

 

1. Convenience: accessible from anywhere (bus, class, laundry room) to content including quizzes, journal entries, balance sheets, learning games.

2. Collaboration: best learning takes place when we share and get immediate tips and feedback.

3. Portability: stacks of books are replaced by RAM with learning experiences customized and connected (Reviews and summaries chunked for on-the-go access).

4. Compatibility: designed learning especially for mobile devices.

5. Engaging/Fun: combine gaming and learning for a more entertaining and effective experience.

Disponível em: <http://www.grayharriman.com/mlearning.htm>. Acesso em: 31 maio 2012.

A m-learning oferece a um novo usuário a possibilidade de

What is Mobile Learning?

The term mobile learning (m-learning) refers to the use of mobile and handheld IT devices, such as Personal Digital Assistants (PDAs), mobile telephones, laptops and tablet PC technologies, in teaching and learning.

As computers and the internet become essential educational tools, the technologies become more portable, affordable, effective and easy to use. This provides many opportunities for widening participation and access to ICT, and in particular the internet. Mobile devices such as phones and PDAs are much more reasonably priced than desktop computers, and therefore represent a less expensive method of accessing the internet (though the cost of connection can be higher). The introduction of tablet PCs now allows mobile internet access with equal, if not more, functionality than desktop computers.

O significado conferido à expressão mobile learning

JOBS THAT WILL DISAPPEAR

Encyclopedia Writer 

 

Britannica, watch out.

Wikipedia's got your number. This 21st-century encyclopedia is free, online and edited by readers.

 

Grocery Store Cashier 

 

Britannica, watch out. Wikipedia's got your number. This 21st-century encyclopedia is free, online and edited by readers. Handling cash is oh-so-20thcentury. In fact, all jobs dealing with paper money, including bank tellers and toll booth operators, could be obsolete in two decades, as we rely more on credit and digital money.

 

Film Processor 

 

If you want to stick with oldfashioned photography, better build your own darkroom. Your neighborhood photo store will be going digital, or going out of business.

 

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Em relação ao modo de se lidar com o dinheiro, o autor do texto afirma que

That big print set will pass into history, but the future it gives way to will be bright.

For 244 years, the thick volumes of the Encyclopaedia Britannica have stood on the shelves of

homes, libraries, and businesses everywhere, a source of enlightenment as well as comfort to

[3]  their owners and users  around the world.

They‘ve always been there. Year after year. Since 1768. Every. Singl e. Day.

But not forever.

[6]   Today we‘ve announced that we will discontinue the 32-volume printed edition of the

Encyclopaedia Britannica when our current inventory is gone.

A momentous event? In some ways, yes; the set is, after all, nearly a quarter of a mil lennium

[9]   old. But in a larger sense this is just another historical data point in the evolution of human

knowledge.

For one thing, the encyclopedia will live on—in bigger, more numerous, and more vibrant

[12]   digital forms. And just as important, we the publishers are poised, in the digital era, to serve

knowledge and learning in new ways that go way beyond reference works. In fact, we already

do.

[15]   We don‘t usually talk about ourselves on this blog, but today‘s news calls for some

amplification. For that we turn t o a few of our company‘s leaders, who will explain that today‘s

announcement represents as much a beginning as an end.

[18]   While you‘re reading, check out Britannica Online, which is entirely free for a full week

beginning today.

Disponível em:<http://www.britannica.com/blogs/2012/03/change>. Acesso em: 31 maio 2012. [Adaptado]

 

 

Na linha 4, o segmento textual They’ve always been there faz referência à

The following statement “When it comes to spending” and the five possible answers to it were taken from a money personality quiz. Read them and answer the question

 

When it comes to spending:

 

a. ( ) I hope I have enough money to take care of unexpected expenses.

b. ( ) I enjoy spending money, as long as I can keep earning more.

c. ( ) I'd rather save my money; spending it makes me nervous.

d. ( ) I don't care where my money goes; I have more important things to think about.

e. ( ) I love spending money, and I tend to spend more than I earn.

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According to what people may choose as answers to the statement “When it comes to spending”, what can be inferred?