{"id":899,"date":"2011-11-07T13:36:09","date_gmt":"2011-11-07T20:36:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec521sept11\/?p=899"},"modified":"2011-11-19T14:08:37","modified_gmt":"2011-11-19T21:08:37","slug":"first-nations-students-need-internet-technology-advocates-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec521sept11\/2011\/11\/07\/first-nations-students-need-internet-technology-advocates-say\/","title":{"rendered":"First Nations students need Internet technology, advocates say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>First Nations students need Internet technology, advocates say<br \/>\n(<\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.straight.com\/article-254208\/first-nations-kids-need-net\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.straight.com\/article-254208\/first-nations-kids-need-net)<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/v1RUesqalw4\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-903\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec521sept11\/files\/2011\/11\/Georgia-Strait-article-image-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Click the above image to link to <a href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/v1RUesqalw4\" target=\"_blank\">YOUTUBE<\/a> to watch the interview<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Description:<br \/>\n<\/em><\/strong>This is a story that I came across on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.straight.com\/article-254208\/first-nations-kids-need-net\">straight.com<\/a> on Denise Williams (a member of the Cowichan Tribe) who is a youth initiative officer for the First Nations Education Steering Committee.\u00a0 Williams believes that broadband internet access will aid the FN in BC by expanding opportunities available to them, many of which live in rural and\/or remote reserves.\u00a0 She strongly feels that having high-speed internet will greatly improve the delivery of distance education where numbers, distance and proximity make delivery of education very expensive.<\/p>\n<p>~ Ryan<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\">\n<hr align=\"center\" size=\"2\" width=\"100%\" \/>\n<\/div>\n<p><strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First Nations students need Internet technology, advocates say (http:\/\/www.straight.com\/article-254208\/first-nations-kids-need-net) Click the above image to link to YOUTUBE to watch the interview Description: This is a story that I came across on the straight.com on Denise Williams (a member of the Cowichan Tribe) who is a youth initiative officer for the First Nations Education Steering Committee.\u00a0 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":639,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[164],"tags":[6056,558],"class_list":["post-899","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-module-3","tag-aboriginal-youth","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec521sept11\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/899","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec521sept11\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec521sept11\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec521sept11\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/639"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec521sept11\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=899"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec521sept11\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/899\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":902,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec521sept11\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/899\/revisions\/902"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec521sept11\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec521sept11\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec521sept11\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}