{"id":196,"date":"2010-10-14T13:38:00","date_gmt":"2010-10-14T18:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/cteachr565b\/?p=196"},"modified":"2010-10-14T13:47:27","modified_gmt":"2010-10-14T18:47:27","slug":"how-has-tv-changed-our-society-and-our-learning-practices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/cteachr565b\/2010\/10\/14\/how-has-tv-changed-our-society-and-our-learning-practices\/","title":{"rendered":"How has TV changed our society and our learning practices?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I read about Plato&#8217;s concerns regarding the use of technology (writing) in Etec 540 and thought they seemed a little ridiculous.\u00a0 Of course, it is difficult to us to imagine a fully oral society as existed then.\u00a0 I am now ready to reconsider, having looked at Moody&#8217;s perspective.\u00a0 What I think is affected is not the role of books but how we approach education and entertainment in general.\u00a0 TV, when first introduced, was used as a gathering point for families to watch a show in the evening.\u00a0 Later on, parents started to use this technology to entertain their children while they attended to other tasks.\u00a0 This whole evolution seems to have isolated us more and more.\u00a0 So although we might continue to find ways to communicate more easily, rapidly and globally through our new technologies, we seem to be doing this in an isolated fashion where each person pursues their own interests at their own pace.<\/p>\n<p>These are considerations we must look into when designing curriculum, whether it be f2f or distance.\u00a0 Technology has truly changed our society in terms of roles, communication and even values.\u00a0 Therefore we must respond to this shift in our educational practices.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I read about Plato&#8217;s concerns regarding the use of technology (writing) in Etec 540 and thought they seemed a little ridiculous.\u00a0 Of course, it is difficult to us to imagine a fully oral society as existed then.\u00a0 I am now ready to reconsider, having looked at Moody&#8217;s perspective.\u00a0 What I think is affected is not [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":896,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2928],"tags":[1129,5787,58015,558,523],"class_list":["post-196","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-etec-511","tag-curriculum-design","tag-plato","tag-society","tag-technology","tag-television"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/cteachr565b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/cteachr565b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/cteachr565b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/cteachr565b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/896"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/cteachr565b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=196"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/cteachr565b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":198,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/cteachr565b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196\/revisions\/198"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/cteachr565b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/cteachr565b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/cteachr565b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}