{"id":6756,"date":"2011-11-02T12:28:10","date_gmt":"2011-11-02T20:28:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522sept11\/?p=6756"},"modified":"2011-11-02T12:28:10","modified_gmt":"2011-11-02T20:28:10","slug":"discussion-3-ipad-lacking-%e2%80%98information-production%e2%80%99","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522sept11\/2011\/11\/02\/discussion-3-ipad-lacking-%e2%80%98information-production%e2%80%99\/","title":{"rendered":"Discussion #3: iPad lacking \u2018information production\u2019?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Considering the high adoption of iPads by many students, it doesn&#8217;t surprise me that some may consider the iPad as an extremely useful tool in the classroom whether it be for a teacher or student. As for word processing features, I think the iPad is a great tool for this.<\/p>\n<p>It does take some getting used to, but typing on the iPad can be almost as fast as the keyboard. Of course, there&#8217;s always the external keyboard that can be plugged in. I think the appeal of the ipad as a word processor for a student is in its size and capability. A full research paper with proper formatting is definitely capable on an iPad. Also, with the voice to text features, it does give some another way to organize thoughts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Considering the high adoption of iPads by many students, it doesn&#8217;t surprise me that some may consider the iPad as an extremely useful tool in the classroom whether it be for a teacher or student. As for word processing features, I think the iPad is a great tool for this. It does take some getting [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[328740],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6756","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-week-09-emerging-market-analysis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522sept11\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6756","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522sept11\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522sept11\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522sept11\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8578"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522sept11\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6756"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522sept11\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6756\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6757,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522sept11\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6756\/revisions\/6757"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522sept11\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522sept11\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522sept11\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}