{"id":6788,"date":"2011-11-03T12:34:03","date_gmt":"2011-11-03T20:34:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522sept11\/?p=6788"},"modified":"2011-11-03T12:34:03","modified_gmt":"2011-11-03T20:34:03","slug":"d3-game-changer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522sept11\/2011\/11\/03\/d3-game-changer\/","title":{"rendered":"D3 &#8211; Game Changer ?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size: 120%\"><strong>Is the Ipad a Game Changer in Education? Is this really a good investment?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In my case, I would probably start with who are my audience and what courses am I teaching?<\/p>\n<p>I am sure it is a game changer for other educators.<\/p>\n<p>As they often say, &#8220;You need an apps for that.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Is there a mathematical formula to determine good investment?<\/p>\n<p>It would nice to have one.<\/p>\n<p>I am a little bit conservative when it comes to spending.<\/p>\n<p>a) What does iPad offer that the other devices\/computers could not?<\/p>\n<p>b) How often are we going to use iPad? Would all the courses support the use of iPad? It might be like buying a luxury vehicle that is parked in the garage and only used 2 hours per week.<\/p>\n<p>c) How do we physically secure it? (I guess this is more of logistics problem).<\/p>\n<p>I guess, at the end of the day, the institution needs to come up with a check list to determine how valuable iPad would be for them.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>smc<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Is the Ipad a Game Changer in Education? Is this really a good investment? &nbsp; In my case, I would probably start with who are my audience and what courses am I teaching? I am sure it is a game changer for other educators. As they often say, &#8220;You need an apps for that.&#8221; Is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7492,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[328740],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6788","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\/6788","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\/7492"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522sept11\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6788"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522sept11\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6788\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6789,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522sept11\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6788\/revisions\/6789"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522sept11\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522sept11\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522sept11\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}