{"id":147,"date":"2010-10-18T12:38:38","date_gmt":"2010-10-18T20:38:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/511tobin\/?p=147"},"modified":"2010-10-18T12:39:15","modified_gmt":"2010-10-18T20:39:15","slug":"does-tech-make-a-difference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/511tobin\/2010\/10\/18\/does-tech-make-a-difference\/","title":{"rendered":"Does Tech Make a Difference?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Some theorists have advocated for a pedagogy that challenges inequality, oppression and fundamentalism in education. Can technology be deployed to create a more equitable system, or does technology enhance these qualities in an education system hence deepening the divide? Do support your posts with stories, anecdotes or experience.&#8221; &#8230; posed by DLG 7 &#8211; The Politics of Ed. Tech.<\/p>\n<p>My Response:<\/p>\n<p>I think it depends on how and what technologies are implemented. For example, I don&#8217;t think putting a smartboard in a classroom will create a more equitable system because there are so many other factors involved that influence learning. For example, family background and support, motivation to learn, behaviour\/social\/physical needs and culture. I don&#8217;t think a smartboard is going to change much for a student who comes to school hungry and has no family support.<\/p>\n<p>However, being a student in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/news\/video?videoId=1799\">Microsoft&#8217;s School of the Future<\/a>, might give that same student hope.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t know what the balance would need to be to make a system more equitable.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Some theorists have advocated for a pedagogy that challenges inequality, oppression and fundamentalism in education. Can technology be deployed to create a more equitable system, or does technology enhance these qualities in an education system hence deepening the divide? Do support your posts with stories, anecdotes or experience.&#8221; &#8230; posed by DLG 7 &#8211; The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3645,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[959],"tags":[3601],"class_list":["post-147","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-module-7","tag-educational-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/511tobin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/511tobin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/511tobin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/511tobin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3645"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/511tobin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=147"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/511tobin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":149,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/511tobin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147\/revisions\/149"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/511tobin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/511tobin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/511tobin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}