Instructions

1. Ask your friend if he/she has faced with the problem and write down your friend’s name in the
box and briefly summarize his/her solution on that problem (key words or phrases).

2. Each question and friend should only be asked once.

3. The winner is the fastest one who has filled a vertical, horizontal, or diagonal line on the sheet
by matching the name and the problem.

Questions

--When you firstly travel abroad, have you ever faced the problem of .......

--Would you briefly describe your solution?

forgetting your passport sitting next to a very not having enough local cab drives that you sense
as you arrive at the unpleasant traveler on currency on arrival are not taking you the
airport the plane most direct route

valuables being stolen getting too drunk on a constantly calculating protecting your passport
from your room. night out and not the exchange rate in from being stolen
knowing where you are your head

medical emergencies sending post cards baggage claim/ Baggage different foods and
missing in the airport palettes
ordering food in a different languages exhausted trips cultural shock
foreign restaurant

Prompt of Problem-Solution Essay

Assignment: Write a 3 page, thesis-driven academic essay addressing the problem of

_____________________________________________________________________

________ its effects, and potential solutions. Make specific references to the articles

discussed for this topic. (____”Why Selfies Matter” by Alexandra Sifferlin

________________________________________.

Purpose: To clearly explain a current problem and its potential effects.

To critically think and write about realistic solutions in connection to the

world today.

Details: For this essay, you must

● Have 3 FULL pages

● Use standard formatting

● Follow academic conventions

● Have an engaging opening and clear thesis

SEPT. 06, 2013 , TIME Magazine. Date accessed: June, 24th, 2015

Whether it’s the duckface smirk or the coyly suggestive close-up, selfies are a mainstay
of Twitter and Instagram and have parents and psychologists wringing their hands over
what they “mean.”

Some social scientists lump the selfie trend — which is most popular among younger
social media users — into the larger narcissism that they say is more prevalent among
today’s preteens and adolescents, arguing that the self-portraits are an extension of their
self-absorption, while others view it as nothing more than an outlet for self-expression,
which just happen to be shared more publicly via the communication mode of our times
— social media.

But how aware are young children, or even teens, about the impression that their selfies
leave? Do they appreciate that with their likenesses, they are often sending strong
visual messages — some even suggestive — that they might not want conveyed?

Dr. Pamela Rutledge, director of the Media Psychology Research Center, believes that
parents and experts are over-analyzing the selfie. First, she says, they aren’t really that
new. As she points out in her column for Psychology Today, the term selfie was defined
in UrbanDictionary.com in 2005. But now that more people have cell phones with
cameras, they’re just more prevalent.

“The way kids think about technology, media and communication is much different
than people even 10 years their senior,” she says. “Technology is changing so fast that
even small generational gaps are meaningful in how we view ‘normal.'”

Developmentally, selfies make sense for children and teens. And for the most part, they
are simply reflections of their self-exploration and nothing more. “Self captured images
allow young adults and teens to express their mood states and share important
experiences,” says Dr. Andrea Letamendi, a clinical psychologist and research fellow
at UCLA. As tweens and teens try to form their identity, selfies serve as a way to test
how they look, and therefore feel, in certain outfits, make-up, poses and places. And
because they live in a digital world, self-portraits provide a way of participating and
affiliating with that world.

But even though taking selfies is a part of growing up digital, that doesn’t mean all
self-portraits are okay. Like all behaviors that children and teens test out, parents should
help them to learn the limits and guidelines for which types of pictures are acceptable
and which are not. It’s not likely that pre-teens and even adolescents think beyond
seeing the images as a type of developmental skin that they try on and shed, for
example, but they do need to be aware that their actions may have consequences. “Kids
only have awareness within the context of their experience. Expecting teens to
understand what something “means” to an adult is about as reasonable as expecting an
adult to understand what it means to the teen,” says Rutledge.

That includes whether others will perceive the pictures as suggestive or too indulgent.
Rutledge says that it’s important for mom and dad to remember that finding and
establishing this threshold of appropriateness may be particularly challenging since it
could be different for each adolescent. But such discussions are likely the most positive
way to solve the issue — explaining to a child what “questionable” selfies are — why
it’s not acceptable to send out a sexually suggestive picture — is more constructive than
blocking their Facebook account or taking away their phone, she says.

But increasingly, other experts say that selfies can also be a window into deeper
adolescent issues. With Facebook becoming a prominent resource in young people’s’
therapy sessions, they could provide a useful jumping off point for addressing a teen’s
or young adult’s self- perceptions. In cases where the patients find it hard to open up
about issues, selfies could be a way for therapists to break the ice and start a dialogue
about what the teen was feeling when the self-portrait was taken, or why he snapped the
picture in the first place. “Scientific studies are gathering more information about the
use of social media to help professionals recognize these as avenues to identify, support,
and help young folks who may otherwise not receive this kind of attention,” says
Letamendi. “Psychologically speaking, there may be some benefit to participating in
sharing selfies because this practice is interwoven in our social culture and is a way to
interact socially with others.”

Even apart from situations where selfies can inform emotional or behavioral problems,
for example, the material that children and adolescents view online — selfies included
— can be influential in molding their sense of self. Research has shown that adults
make emotional connections to what they see posted online, and that their behaviors
and decisions are influenced by how peers in their social network are interacting.
People often feel envy, loneliness and generally worse about themselves after perusing
their friends’ party pictures, for instance, and the latest research, published this week in
 the Journal of Adolescent Health, suggests that teens are more likely to engage in risky
activities like smoking and drinking if they see their friends doing it in photos.

That’s not surprising, given the ubiquity of social media influences in our lives. But it’s
worth studying, those in adolescent development say, to better understand how these
social contributors are shaping the next generation, for better or worse.

Using a Problem-Solution Chart.

-When you write about a problem, you can use a problem-solution chart to describe what
the problem is, some of its causes and effects, and how it might be solved.

-Work with a partner. Think of a problem at the top left-side of the chart. Discuss causes and
effects of the problem and possible solutions. Then write your ideas in the chart.

What is the problem? Why is this a problem? (effects)

1.

2.

3.

What are some causes of the problem?