1 6 Addicted to screens Part 2 BBC видео 7 класс книга Wider World 3

[Video 1.6] Unit 1, BBC Culture, Exercises 6 and 7 Addicted to screens, Part 2 But is internet addiction a bad thing? Think for a moment about the information that you receive on screens. It’s certainly not like reading a book. Now we receive information via connections or hyperlinks. We just click on the link or touch the screen and something new appears. And what about the videos of pets you watch on YouTube? You think it’s funny or superficial, but this is part of a big online conversation. You can watch the angry cat and then create your own clip or meme with a different cat. Sharing these photos and videos is more important than the content itself. It allows us to communicate with people in a more creative way. So, do smartphones make us smarter or less smart? Let’s return to Korea for an answer. There’s good news: Korea is the most connected country in the world, but it is also number one for education. It is regularly top of the world’s education league tables. The reason may be that from an early age, Korean children are proficient at working together on the internet to solve problems.