{"id":7953,"date":"2013-09-09T17:27:43","date_gmt":"2013-09-10T00:27:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522sept13\/?p=7953"},"modified":"2013-09-09T21:12:23","modified_gmt":"2013-09-10T04:12:23","slug":"can-tablets-replace-teachers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522sept13\/2013\/09\/09\/can-tablets-replace-teachers\/","title":{"rendered":"Can tablets replace teachers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This article appeared on the BBC news site half an hour ago.\u00a0 There is also a video but you have to have access to a UK proxy to view it.\u00a0\u00a0 I&#8217;m sure it&#8217;ll appear on youtube soon.\u00a0 Basically 7 schools in the Netherlands have gone towards personalized learning and all students learn on tablets.\u00a0 Teachers act mainly as coaches and mentors.<\/p>\n<p>There is also a related article\/video on the site in which Thailand&#8217;s goal to distribute a tablet to every child is discussed.<\/p>\n<p>Links are below<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Tablets replace teachers\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/business-23845345\">http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/business-23845345<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/business-23845345\/\/\">Thailand<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/2013\/08\/21\/first-seven-ipad-only-steve-jobs-schools-open-in-the-netherlands\/\">More on Steve Jobs Schools<\/a><\/p>\n<p>So what do you think this means for us as educators?\u00a0 Will we be relegated to the role (and pay point) of teaching assistants?\u00a0 How does this impact instructional design?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This article appeared on the BBC news site half an hour ago.\u00a0 There is also a video but you have to have access to a UK proxy to view it.\u00a0\u00a0 I&#8217;m sure it&#8217;ll appear on youtube soon.\u00a0 Basically 7 schools in the Netherlands have gone towards personalized learning and all students learn on tablets.\u00a0 Teachers [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3530,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7953","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522sept13\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7953","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522sept13\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522sept13\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522sept13\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3530"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522sept13\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7953"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522sept13\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7953\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7961,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522sept13\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7953\/revisions\/7961"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522sept13\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522sept13\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522sept13\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}