{"id":11296,"date":"2024-06-22T09:18:08","date_gmt":"2024-06-22T16:18:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/?p=11296"},"modified":"2024-06-22T09:18:10","modified_gmt":"2024-06-22T16:18:10","slug":"a1-electronically-assisted-astronomy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/2024\/06\/22\/a1-electronically-assisted-astronomy\/","title":{"rendered":"A1: Electronically Assisted Astronomy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Astronomy has a variety of unique and somewhat contradictory aspects: awe inspiring visuals of real objects that are so different from anything we encounter on Earth that they appear abstract; subjects that are fascinating yet absurdly out of reach; a hobby that can be both aesthetically and emotionally impactful but also incredibly technical.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Modern technology has created tools that have profound impacts on amateur astronomy. These impacts can reduce barriers to entry, but also expand what is possible by serious amateurs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As a science teacher, astronomy has always appealed to me not only as a personal interest but as a way to inspire students to the complexity and beauty of the subject. This OER tries to investigate how mobile technology has impacted this opportunity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.google.com\/view\/a1-electronically-assisted-ast\/home\">https:\/\/sites.google.com\/view\/a1-electronically-assisted-ast\/home<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Astronomy has a variety of unique and somewhat contradictory aspects: awe inspiring visuals of real objects that are so different from anything we encounter on&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/2024\/06\/22\/a1-electronically-assisted-astronomy\/\">Read more<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">A1: Electronically Assisted Astronomy<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":96689,"featured_media":11297,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[19,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11296","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-a1-analyses","category-mobiletechnologies","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11296","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/96689"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11296"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11296\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11298,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11296\/revisions\/11298"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11297"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}