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June 12, 2016
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| At first schools used videos to teach their children. But sometimes unsuitable situations occurred. When children wanted to ask something to their teachers, they had to ask by email, like: Dear Mr. Wang (his teacher), I'm Ivan in Moscow. Thank you for teaching me. Every time I look forward to your interesting lessons. This time I have a question, which is as follows. Thank you for your help in advance. Question: You said in your lesson #34, "There are various types of joints in our body, such as ball-and-socket joints, pivotal joints, hinge joints, and fixed joints. We are able to bend and/or rotate our body only at these joints." But one of my uncles showed me his bone bending at the place which had no joint. He boasts about it every time we meet. How's this possible? A couple of days later, Ivan received a return email, and it read: Dear Ivan, I'm Mr. Silva from Brazil. Thank you for asking a good question. Mr. Wang quit our school a couple of years ago, so I'll explain the answer to your question. I suppose Mr. Wang's remark was not correct. Human beings have various individual features. He missed …. Ivan became confused and wondered which teacher he should believe. He had wanted to ask another question to Mr. Wang but he gave up to ask something to the teachers in the video anymore. And, the parents started to complain about this sort of problem. Originally asking questions by email, especially for kids, was inefficient, because
So, schools gave up using videos, and teachers started to teach live. At first, schools had a hard time to shift teachers' schedules because of time differences, for example: Isabella was living in Italy, and was teaching from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Her students should be learning in the range of 7 a.m. to 4 p.m. So, when she started to teach at 9 a.m., students in India were at 1 p.m., students in China were at 3 p.m. When she started to teach at 2 p.m., New York students were at 8 a.m., Rio de Janeiro's kids were at 10 a.m. Once her son got sick, and she wanted to find a substitute, but at that time she couldn't. This type of 'shift' became troublesome for the organizers of schools, and they naturally ended up using time zones. For example, in this case, Isabella in Italy, now her students lived in the range of a 2 hour difference. So including her time, 5 hours was her time zone. It meant that her target students were living between all of Europe, all of Africa, and some parts of the Middle-East, and some parts of Russia. Another example is, if the teacher lived in Perth in Australia, her/his target area would be almost all of Asia, a half of Russia, as well as all of Australia. Eventually, this idea was applied for other jobs because of similar problems. Typically, business people used emails to communicate with each other. But, sometimes they had to attend Skype meetings among their colleagues. So, for example, if a meeting was held at 3 p.m. in the certain person's and/or business' time zone, others who were attending might be living in a place that was 9 in the morning, or 6 in the morning, or 10 at night. Therefore, people were in different moods, sometimes grouchy or sleepy, etc. So many times the organizer of the meeting got many complaints from a lot of people about the meeting time. Eventually, companies started to shift their workers according to time zones. (To be continued …) |
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*unsuitable 適さない
*look forward to 楽しみにする
*as follows 以下の通り
*joint 関節
*pivotal 軸に回る
*hinge ちょうつがいの
*rotate 回転する
*miss 見落とす
*substitute 代役
*grouchy 機嫌が悪い