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What caught your attention or interested you about Paul’s article?
What caught my attention was that electronics are developing so fast
What questions or wonders do you now have?
I wonder what types of phones they have.
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Hi, Guillaume. I think you can do better at supporting your reason with details and tell why you said that. However, you did a good job!
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Guillaume you can do better with this comment I think you can spend more time on this post and you need to add more details. This is a shallow comment.
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What caught your attention or interested you about Paul’s article?
What caught my attention was Ethiopia is now using technology that is advanced a little more and also that they use to block out everyone outside of them but now they want others to come . There are some consequences though like no physical socializing. I really think they should slow down in advancement wise. It would be better if they did that
because then they would have a higher chance of having problems/consequences.
What questions or wonders do you now have?
I wonder if they had any consequences yet or any so far? I also wonder if they are going to make more plants in Ethiopia to advance, but if they do that then I also wonder if they are going to do the process slowly or not?
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Hi Rishi,
I really like your comment because you give your opinion and you support your opinion. Keep it up.
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What caught your attention or interested you about Paul’s article?
It is sad that nobody has electricity at their houses and have to go to another place to charge their cell phones etc. I can’t believe there is actually competition to have the best charging place. At first, they didn’t want all this technological advancements. Then, all of a sudden there was a burst of technology and people used technology 24/7. Technology is good, but you shouldn’t jump in so fast if you are not ready for it. The Afar people might forget who they truly originally were.
What questions or wonders do you now have?
I wonder if everyone in Ethiopia has cell phones or is it maybe a little too expensive for some of them?
I wonder if people in Ethiopia are going to stop using so much technology and just slow down to see what they are forgetting/missing?
Does Paul sometimes tell them that it is bad to use so much technology and look at the world around them?
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Hi Rahul,
This is a thoughtful post. You have raised some interesting questions in your second part as well.
Mrs. Hall
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Dear Rahul,
I totally agree Rahul. These are some interesting facts. These are very strong details. This gives a lot of information. I really like it.
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What caught your attention or interested you about Paul’s article?
What caught my attention, was that he noticed about about the electricity and I think what he is saying is that phones and electronics are changing people, and get to addicted to it.
What questions or wonders do you now have?
I wonder what people would do if their was no internet at all, since some people are very addicted to it.
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Hi Aisyah! I like your question a lot! But can you say a bit more about your thoughts about the post?
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Hi,Aisyah.I think yours comment is really good.Because your question has a lot of materials.I like your comment.
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What caught your attention or interested you about Paul’s article?
Something that I found interesting in the article is how much Oasis is important to people. I think that is why they call the “gold water”. Furthermore, in the future, I think that the water will be expensive/important than the oil. Like when I went to Europe, I had to pay the water and it was expensive than the coke. However, the water is daily- need. The animals such as camels or goats can drink to survive by drinking the water. I saw that the China is sharing electronic with them. I think China do business over the world, which they can earn much money. I think cell phone is very useful to do business or trade. I also like the way how the people put their phones and charge it. Like when I saw the photo of a man in Ethiopia, he was holding a gun, blade and a cell phone. So I think they start to have phones for their needs.
What questions or wonders do you now have?
How do Oasis produce water in the hot dessert?
In how many years will the water be expensive than the oil?
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I really like how you made a connection with real life and said how water is very expensive. I think if you add a little more detail about the electronics that people use and more about technology. Can you explain more about why you said gun, blade and a cell phone.
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What caught your attention or interested you about Paul’s article?
Something that I found interesting in Paul’s article was the way the way technology developed so fast! Now, almost all ethiopians use cell phones. Every evening, they walk miles and miles to recharge their cell phone in a giant generator at a big village and at dinner, they only look at their cell phone. Before, when two villagers met each other in the desert, they did a “dagu”, a tradition when they share information by talking to each other. Now, they share information on their cell phone. What would Ethiopia be in twenty years if technology keeps improving more and more? I think that it would be better if technology stopped growing.
What questions or wonders do you now have?
How did technology arrive in such a place like Ethiopia?
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I agree with you because if the Afar tribe use technology too much, they will destroy their tradition.
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What caught your attention or interested you about Paul’s article?
Something I found interesting in the Electronic Oasis blog post was the water. For us water isn’t something that we think about because we have the money to afford it. For the Ethiopians, they live in a hot desert and they have a very little water. They preserve the water. Also for technology I think Ethiopians will have a better life and people will be more wealthy. For me I think technology might destroy their traditions, or they could get addicted to their smartphones.
What questions or wonders do you now have?
How did the technology begin?
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I agree with you about the technology growing. The people are getting addicted. If it continues like that, how would be the traditions of Ethiopia in 20 years? I have the same question as you. I think that the only people that knows are the Ethiopians.
Good job. You wrote a nice response but maybe you should write a bit more about the electronic oasis.
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What caught your attention or interested you about Paul’s article?
It was interesting that even in areas like the Sahara, technology is already so advanced. In addition, people from all over the area come to recharge their phones. Also, this causes immense changes to society.
What questions or wonders do you now have?
Where do the nomads get the money to buy and charge their phones?
Who put these generators in place?
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Dear Luis,
I completely agree with you about how technology advances so fast. You’re making a strong point in how the world changing quickly. I’d suggest you would write a few more reasons on why it is an immense change.
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Dear Luis,
I strongly agree on what you have wrote about how technology is advancing so fast in the world. I agree on how it makes an immense change to society. I’d suggest you could write a few more reasons on how it makes an immense change.
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What caught your attention or interested you about Paul’s article?
That there was electricity in the middle of nowhere
What questions or wonders do you now have?
Do they only have phones? any laptops?
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What caught your attention or interested you about Paul’s article?
How the people in the middle of the desert are able to get electricity, and how men have businesses to recharge phones.
What questions or wonders do you now have?
What could the consequences of this growth to technology be ?
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What caught your attention or interested you about Paul’s article?
It really interested me that people had to take a 3 hour long journey trough the desert to charge their mobiles phones.
What questions or wonders do you now have?
Why Paul doesn’t make short documentaries and interviews?
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What caught your attention or interested you about Paul’s article?
He discovered a village in the middle of nowhere with electricity and internet.
What questions or wonders do you now have? A question I still have is how did tourists know about this
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What caught your attention or interested you about Paul’s article?
Something that caught my attention from this article is that there are still some places where they have no electricity, and they would have to walk for 3 hours just to get your phone charged. And that there is some place, Electronic Oasis somewhere in that place.
What questions or wonders do you now have?
Some questions I have on the article are:
Why do only a person or 2 have the job on charging the phones?
How many people have phones?
Isn’t it tiring to walk for 3 hours and charge you phone, then go back in about 2 days again..?
And… How much does the actual phone cost?
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Good questions, Sunny. I wonder how far people walk to just charge their phones. It must be important to them. It might be a short distance for them, but long to us.
I’d be curious to know the average cost of a phone there. I imagine there are not many, if any, Smart phones. They probably have inexpensive Nokia brands (like mine!).
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What caught your attention or interested you about Paul’s article?
The Frankensteinish machine caught my attention. He made it from scratch and it charges a phone in minutes.
What questions or wonders do you now have?
Now I want to know if Paul used the generator/Frankensteinish machine to charge his phone.
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Hi Jeremy! Nice thought you got there 🙂
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Electronics Oasis :
What caught your attention or interested you about Paul’s article?
I think it is really interesting that Paul talks about the technology in Ethiopia. It is amazing how technology has grown so fast. If they want to charge their cell phones they had to go to a special place. They were using their cell phones for trading things. They had one generator for everybody in their town.
What questions or wonders do you now have now ?
I wonder how amazing it is to see all of these things in his journey.
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What caught my attention in Paul’s article is that water is like gold in Ethiopia. It is also important because you need water and in Ethiopia, it is one of the hottest deserts in the world and you can’t live without water for just 3 days or else you die and you don’t want to die do you? They need more water they must be hydrated with not having much water. He gets to experience so much and the farthest I have been is india. I hope he learns a lot from his experiences.
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“Electronic Oasis”
What caught your attention or interested you about Paul’s article?
What interested me was what Paul said about the man who charged phones within minutes. It made me think that maybe the phones were getting damaged and the battery wouldn’t last as long because it would overcharge. Another thing I found interesting, was the fact that people would walk for miles just to get their phone charged, it really shows you how much they need their phones and appreciate them.
What questions or wonders do you now have?
What do the people without phones do? How do they “dagu”?
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Hi Vinay,
I would assume that if the people don’t have a cell phone, they “dagu” the old-fashioned way.
Thoughtful post!
Mrs. Hall
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1)What caught your attention or interested you about Paul’s article?
The fact that Mulukan Ayalu could make a living from plugging phones into sockets. He makes about 10 rupees a day which could actually be a fortune in Ethiopia. Everybody used to be pastoralists but now this man could very well be the richest man in Ethiopia. And soon the population of pastoralists could possibly become 0. And now old tribe traditions are dying. Maybe camels and goats will be disappearing.
2) What are some wonders you have now?
How is the electricity supported? (Where does it come from?)
How do the chargers charge phones so fast?
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I agree about the tradition is dying. Why does the animals will disappear? I think you should use a easy words.
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Yes. I agree plugging in phones for a living is a little weird.
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1)The thing that caught my attention from the paragraph that Paul wrote was the topic. I thought it was a really good message that he was trying to send to the people who are reading his story.
2) I wonder whether what phones they have and also how much Ahmed Alem Hessen earns for one day.
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Hi Tejas,
Yes, it was a really good message. Could you expand on your idea of what that message is. I am interested to know what you think.
Mrs. Hall
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What caught your attention or interested you about Paul’s article?
Something I found interesting in the story was that people have cellphones. When I think of Africa, I think of poverty, wild animal, and desert. I also think it’s interesting that people can charge their phones and someone can get paid for that. Finally, I would like to learn how their lives will change or how their country will develop because of technology.
what questions or wonders do you now have?
Will Ethiopia develop more because of technology?
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Hi Woon Ji,
I agree with your first sentence. I also surprised about that cellphones can be used in desert of Ethiopia.
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Reading your comment I also thought will Ethiopia develop with more technology. I think Ethiopia can develop with technology if they use it well. But I also hope that they develop with technology and there traditional things.
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1) What caught your attention or interested you about Paul’s article?
Something that caught my attention was that people in the Afar Triangle in Ethiopia used to keep themselves. Now they have accepted technology, but now they ignore their traditions they have stopped doing their traditional greetings to people instead they do it on their phones. “Now we dagu , dagu ,dagu all the time on the phone,” Ahmed Alema Hesaan says. They don’t talk while eating their dinner instead they are on their phones. Now they are going to get more mobile network and everyone will be on their phones more and more. I think that having technology is good but they need to control their usage because slowly their traditions will disappear. I think Paul Salopek feels happy that they have technology and can help others and communicate easily but I think he also feels sad that the culture they used to have is slowly going away.
2)What questions or wonders do you now have?
– I wonder if Paul will ever feel like giving up and going back to his home?
– I wonder if Paul actually thinks that the technology is giving a bad effect on the people and their traditions?
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Hi Samara,
I enjoyed reading your post and your thoughts about the effects of technology on a people’s culture.
Mrs. Hall
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I agree with you because technology can sometimes save your life and entertain you in life but it also can sometimes take away your past like now.
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This is a great comment! I like your thinking among technology in Ethiopia! You’re giving evidence and your opinions 😉
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What caught your attention or interested you about Paul’s article?
It is really interesting to realize and know about different life in another country is compared to us and because of his journey, I can now be thankful for the technology, water, school, etc. supplies around our daily lives. In addition, by following and learning about his journey I learnt about many kinds of cultures around the world. I believe as his journey moves on more people around the world would begin participate on Out Of Eden Learn and our walking party will expand someday.
What questions or wonders do you now have?
One question I have about Paul is whether he has family because it is a really hard choice to take 7 years to his family.
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What caught your attention or interested you about Paul’s article?
What caught my attention in the “Electronic Oasis” is how technology is expanding. I didn’t think that the Ethiopians were using cell phones. Technology was more advanced at Ethiopia than I expected. I think the farmers made a good decision to allow other people from outside to trade their animals with technology. It made life easier for them. Cell phones were very useful for them too. Technology really helped them a lot. On the other hand, technology were had negative effects too. The culture may change. Also, it was interesting the difference of water used in Ethiopia and here. We use it and some people even waste it but in Ethiopia, it’s really rare and expensive. I kind of feel bad for the Ethiopian people because sometimes I waste some water too.
What questions or wonders do you now have?
・What is the average amount of water they use for one day?
・How is life like with less water?
・Is there any more technology instead of cell phones?
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I agree with what you said about technology having good and bad effects Lin! I would also like to know how much water they use in a day. the
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☆ What caught your attention or interested you about Paul’s article?
– Something that caught my attention was the title! I was really like curious about the Electronic oasis. After I finished reading, I felt that the world I mean the poor and the tribes – are developing and changing. I also thought that ‘What if in some years the tribes forget their culture and traditions and become a modern person?’ It’s good that they are developing but if they get addicted or like forget their tradition it could be a problem.
☆ What questions or wonders do you now have?
– Um… Not much but how did they get there cell phones and what made them to change?
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I think this is a good comment because you have lot of details
To answer that question in my opinion is that the Ethiopian are determined to develop their city.
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Hi Juyang,
I also felt interests when I saw the title. Cause I could thought that that title would imply many things.
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Something that caught my attention in Paul’s article is how they found a place to charge peoples phones in the middle of the desert! A wonder I have is how did they start this whole process of finding a electronic oasis and starting a charging center there….
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Hi Kennedy,
Something I like about your post is your question. Can you tell me a bit more about how they started the charging system? This is a good post but you could write a bit more about the oasis.
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I realize that was a little bit shallow so I am going to do it with more detail. Something that caught my attention in Paul’s article is how they are developing the technology so fast. Soon they might forget their traditions or style of living. Today we use technology a lot and people are forgetting parts of their culture, culture is what make our world interesting it would be a shame if it took over our traditions and daily life. Some wonders I have are, how long until we realize phones, computers, etc are changing our way of living and our daily way of living…? Also I wonder how they started finding charging stations…
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Kennedy,
Thanks for adding some more details and making your original comment more detailed or insightful. Good job.
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kennedy I think its good but you have to support more evidence on your review like what aron said I think you should put more details on your review but good job LOL
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I didn’t know that Ethiopian farmer will have phone and can contact each other. I thought there is no wifi, and no connecting sign, but it surprised me it did. And I didn’t know that they are communicating with phones! When everybody thinks of Africa, and Ethiopia, they think that Africa is a really poor country and has nothing, and that’s not true.
And I have a question that where did they get a phone? did they have enough money?
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I think this is a good comment because you wrote your opinion, and you have good questions. I agree with you because I also had question about money.
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What caught your attention or interested you about paul’s article?
Something I found interesting in the Electronic Oasis blog was how they developed their technology. Before 1920 farmers don’t let them(people who came from outside) come in, but now they are very happy to get technological information from outside of the people.
Technology is helping people to make trade easier. They can sell their goats by using cell phones. There is a man, Ayalu, who charge phones for a cents. Also I interested that village have grown very fast because of technology. I think their life will change so much in the future.
What questions do you have?
Is Ayalu rich?
Who is selling them cell phones?
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Yuto,
I also wonder how rich or well-off Ayalu is compared to the average person who lives in his area.
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I think this is a great comment because you have a lot of evidence. Maybe you could add a bit more detail to your questions.
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What caught your attention or interested you about Paul’s article?
1) The most interesting thing I learned was that Electronic Oasis was about technology. People started to use cell phones in Ethiopia. The good things about having cell phone is that you can trade and communicate to people using cell phone. The bad things are that if you use cell phones every time, you can’t live without cell phones, and you can’t communicate face by face.
People goes to place where cell phones can charge, but it cost money.
Man who charge cell phones is called Mulukan Ayalu, and he is an Ethiopian government technician who maintains the tiny power plant at Dalifagi.
What questions or wonders do you now have?
2) My question is that is it good to have cell phones in Ethiopia? Because there are lots of good things and bad things to have a cell phones, because sometimes it helps people, but sometimes it’s bad for people, so I wonder is it good or bad.
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-What caught your attention or interested you about Paul’s article?
I find everything about the article incredible. What he found out is amazing. It’s true, technology is increasing way too fast, even for us. Almost everybody have cell-phones and spend their entire life ON it. I think the message is : everything change so fast but shouldn’t.
-What questions or wonders do you now have?
Why do they want to jump to electronic ? Why don’t they understand, that they will lose things if they continue using SO much the internet ? Why are they so poor and have cell-phones ?
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Big questions. There are many reasons why they are so poor. How would your life change if you chose to not use the Internet? Do they have a right to use the same things we do and access to technology? These are some things you should think about. Good job.
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Hi Alice! I agree with you about your question : “Why do they want to jump to electronics?” They are losing so much on their culture!
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“Electronic Oasis”
What caught your attention or interested you about Paul’s article?
The basic FACT that there is an ELECTRONIC oasis, and no simple WATER oasis is compelling. I think that instead of skipping centuries of technologies, the people who haven’t gotten very far in technology should go slow, instead of jumping over a whole lot of learning. They should be taught about the analogs and stuff, but they will go faster, without/learning from our mistakes. They should also be taught about our mistakes, and based on that, they can create a lot more, going over our mistakes, seeing what was wrong, and creating a whole new world of technology!
What questions or wonders do you now have?
What will happen next? Will anybody follow up on the ideas that we provide? Who’ll benefit from this? And, once again, what will happen next?
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Good questions. It would nice to re-visit this area of Ethiopia in a few years to see how life changes. When I left Thailand in 1996, there was really no Internet. I returned two years later and Internet cafes were all over the place. It was the hot new thing. See how it has changed left and what it’s like nearly 20 years later. Good job, Rhea.
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The Electronic Oasis is the power that makes people work and have occupations to work and its the power that makes money to live. The thing that caught me that the electronic Oasis is not the Oasis that its in the middle of the hot burning desert, it could be but The “Electronic” Oasis is the part source of electricity. Even these little Electricity help people to make their money. The occupation that people do in Ethiopia is that charging other people phone. People just drop their phone there and they go to work and the worker that charges other people’s phone he makes money, but I think the electricity that charges other people’s phone I think the earned money from charging other people’s will all go to electric taxes so the man who charges other peoples phone he will not have a profit of his life. I don’t know they are having fun with their jobs but I don’t think they will not have fun but I guess some people do if they have great profit. I think people there are not thinking I think they care about only protecting their family but I don’t think they care about the future the end of the Electronic Oasis. I wonder where the all electricity are coming from? ( I really really wanted to write something but I forgot it was deep think for me 😦 …….)
How do think about having electricity in our school besides the electricity in Ethiopia?
what is the different about our electricity and their electricity and how much is better our electricity is better than their electricity?
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I also wonder where the all electricity come from?
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What caught your attention or interested you about Paul’s article?
Something that caught my attention is that how there are source of technology even in middle of dessert. This surprises me because I always thought in those regions people does not have access to technology and live in place where they walk to go to some place and do businesses. I can tell even in middle of desert where people might think that it is just dried and nothing is there to communicate or socialize with outer place but it is not. As we are developing and making something that will change ways of our life it does same in those places.
What questions or wonders do you now have?
Where they receive all those phones and newer technology.
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1. It caught my attention and interested by people standing in line of in front of in office with the fold their shirts with dead cell phone of neighbors. People drop phones for recharging with a handmade token.
Also it was interested that people walked long miles to just charge their phone’s battery.
2. I have question and wonders about how people can get affected by the electronics?
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Something interesting I have about Electric Oasis is the world is moving really quick. I mean I thought poor places like Africa still don’t have much technology. Even when I came to India the first time, I was surprised because the imagination I had about India was they have all these guys who beg for money and even adults don’t even have cheap phones I got when I was 5. But it was wrong. All the adults had phones and tablets. My maid is in a poor class of India but I was surprised about her that she has a tablet. I am really interested about how the world moves along with the technologie. My teacher Mr. Martin told us that we will be fighting over water in future but I don’t think so. I think in future, we will fight over electricity.
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Good connection to life in India, Futa.
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I was actually quite surprised after I read the “Electronic Oasis” Dispatch because it reminded me a lot of India.In India I feel that modern technology just does’nt fit in.There are people wearing traditional clothing with Nokias and all sorts of “Western” things.India has been influenced by America and about every 5 kms or so you can see a Sari store,and near it a “Western Wear” store.India even has a funny sort of English that is actually as a matter of fact, real English.Words like “Bluff’ are from the original English that came to India when the British arrived.Indians say “You Are” instead of “You’re” not because they find it better to enunciate,but because they speak original English and not American English.I think with the newfound “Western” style of things makes India move too fast.We forget to first keep our culture in a place where we will not forget about it.Not forget about it over the influence others’ cultures have over us.Just like Ethiopia.
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I also voted other because I would use an electric-motor helicopter to get to Civilization.
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Hi Varun,
Your comparison with India is interesting. It shows you are relating what we are learning about to the environment we are in here in India. It is interesting to see the “old” and “new” here, isn’t it?
Mrs. Hall
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I brought my attention to Paul’s Article because I never knew people in the desert had cell phones. I never knew the world was advancing so fast! I totally agree that the person who charges cell phones is the busiest man in the city. What also caught my attention was when it said China helps give electricity to the entire city. Now there are more than hundreds of people who have cell phones. Can you believe that? This is one of the most interesting facts I have ever heard about.
I wonder how many people have cellphones in deserts all around the world?
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What caught your attention or interested you about Paul’s article?
I was interested about how quickly technology changes. It is a big difference that China is helping the people in Ethiopia. But I think it is going to change their religion and that is not very good. I think the way of working/ trading is going to change very quickly because China is giving them power and internet and helping them.
What questions or wonders do you now have?
I wonder if it is going to change their culture or not.
Will they all get interested in technology?
Will they interact with the world and get more money?
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I like that you understand that technology sometimes ruins the traditions. I have question that why do you think china is helping Ethiopia. I think China just want to spread around the world to earn moneys etc. I suggest to add little more researched details. I think with researched information, your story will become more better. Anyway I liked your thinking.
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What caught your attention or interested you about Paul’s article?
That he is very concerned about the future, how the world thinks about technology and uses it, and how it will affect how the world will be and how us children will grow up and take care of it.
What questions or wonders do you now have?
I wonder…………
-How and where did they get all the technology and needs to set up the generator?
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Good question. I have read that the Chinese are investing a lot of money in Africa. They also don’t seem to care too much whether they work with countries that abuse human rights there. It’s a continent full of resources, and I am sure they want access to them.
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Electronic Oasis:
What caught your attention or interested you about Paul’s article?
Something in Paul’s article that caught my attention was they started to use phone(devices), and they use it for ‘trading’. Another part was there is a JOB where someone charges the phone and gets money. I think they started to develop with devices but it make people to forget their culture.
What questions or wonders do you now have?
Why they started to use cell phones?
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I have a question how did they start to use a cell phone and your question is why did they started to use cell phone! XD I think they started to use cell phone because they wanted a better life and more simple life.
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In this article the most interesting part was that I never knew that there was such thing called electrical Oasis and I thought that it would be really hard to live like that. I think the good thing is that it is developing.
My question is how is it going to develope because I think that developing is very hard unless many things come together.
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What caught your attention or interested you about Paul’s article? What questions or wonders do you have now?
The part of Electronic Oasis that caught my interest was the contents about changing of technology in desert of Ethiopia. Paul named his article to ‘ Electronic Oasis’. As you know, the water is gold in desert of Ethiopia. And as a title, Paul’s article is talking about electronic system in there. He referred about there is generator system in the village. And the interesting thing was that one man named Ayalu charges cell phones for other people and get paid few cents. People travel a miles to get their phone charged. It made me notice It is really interesting thing because even it is in faraway like desert, people in there are using technology by charging them by using their money. Which means because of technology, the village is growing rapidly and giving people a convenience. I also surprised that technology is moving fast in Ethiopia. According to Paul’s announcement in his article, about more than 17,000,000 people using cell phones. Anyway as a result, I learned many things about electronic system in Ethiopia by this article, ‘Electronic Oasis’.
What questions or wonders do you now have?
1. Does people in desert of Ethiopia feel satisfactory about their electronic system?
2. Do customers of Ayalu feel okay about paying money to him?
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Good questions and reflection, Yoobin. A few cents does not sound like a lot to you and me. I wonder how the people there feel.
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In Paul’s article some fact make me interested which is many people are walking many miles to charge their technology or to use. For example, we can use technology everywhere but they are not. I have one question, if they have job that charge people’s technology and get money, how many percentage of people are doing that job?
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What caught your attention or interested you about Paul’s article?
In the Paul’s article, the most interest thing was that there was the place where they can charge their technology. So people will come to that place to charge their technology. I can charge my technology in my house but they can’t. It’s going to be really uncomfortable if we can not charge my technology in my house.
What questions or wonders do you now have?
My question is that what happens when the generator doesn’t work forever?
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Good question, I wonder how they maintain this generator.
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Electronic Oasis:
What caught your attention or interested you about Paul’s article?
The interest I had was that how can a place of tradition- might I say in the middle of the desert- how can they have phones? Quote-“It has given them power,” says Mulukan Ayalu, 23. Yes it had given them power. To make goat trades over the phones. So trading does not have to be face to face. But in a way we have become isolated. Tradition connects people face to face, make people less isolated. So why have culture over a item that separates people from one another? I’m interested to see if Paul’s walk could change the way we use everything today. What caught my attention? The way how little cities have taken over our way of enjoyment: Isolation.
What Questions or wonders do you now have?
The only question is, after seeing the world on foot. Seeing so many people on technology (Phones, not the well!) , will you go to paper and pencil and prove them wrong? -Inspired by my S.S. teacher Mr.Martin.
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What caught your attention or interested you about Paul’s article?
The fact that in a desert there is phones and somehow in the middle of the desert is a power source.
What questions or wonders do you now have?
How does the generator sustain energy for so long?
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Electronic Oasis:
What caught your attention or interested you about Paul’s article?
What interested me a lot is that this people are very behind from our technology of today and this is not a bad thing but now that they have like cell phones so this makes it easier for them to negotiate like to trade goats and like animals they talk and then go to meet somewhere and negotiate. This was also good because if they got lost they could just talk and find their way home.
What questions or wonders do you now have?
Did Paul charge his phone in the electronic oasis
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What caught my attention or interest about Paul’s article is that people are using electronic everywhere and it looks weird. That means that the world is advancing the technology so much. I found out that all people don’t have a charger at their house but they are using a cell phone. I thought this is so weird when I read this article.
I have a question and it is how are they making a electronics.
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What caught my attention-Something that caught my attention about Paul’s article on Electronic Oasis was that there is a man in Dalifagi that recharges the mobile/cell phones of hundreds of ‘nomads’ for a few cents. Also not that long ago when the residents of Dalifagi used to meet in the desert they would often conduct a ‘dagu’. A ‘dagu’ is a formal exchange of news but now they ‘dagu’ all the time over the phone. Another thing that caught my eye was cell/mobile use grew by 30 percent last year to more than 17 million subscribers.
One wonder I have is did Paul get his phone charged with the man in Dalifagi.
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What caught your attention or interested you about Paul’s article?
I never thought of an Oasis the way Paul did. Now I realize that it does make sense.
ELECTRONIC OASIS does make sense! You are walking in the desert and suddenly,
you just fall in a small village, far from the closest big city. And there, almost everyone over 18 has a cell phone….
What questions or wonders do you now have?
I wonder if everyone can afford a phone in Ethiopia…?
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