{"id":1864,"date":"2020-05-28T23:36:28","date_gmt":"2020-05-29T06:36:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/?p=1864"},"modified":"2020-05-28T23:36:29","modified_gmt":"2020-05-29T06:36:29","slug":"smart-rings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/2020\/05\/28\/smart-rings\/","title":{"rendered":"Smart Rings"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Originally by&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/virtual.educ.ubc.ca\/wp\/etec523\/author\/charmalee-kirk\/\">charkirk<\/a>&nbsp;on January 18, 2017<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Much has been written in previous posts about&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Wearable_technology\">wearable technology<\/a>&nbsp;so I don\u2019t think I need to go into a lot of detail. &nbsp;Recently, however, I\u2019ve been hearing more about \u201cSmart\u201d Rings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-embed-handler wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"This Ring Tracks Your Steps and Heart Rate\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/oIxz8LEHXWI?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;Essentially it functions as a fitness tracker similar to a&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Fitbit\">Fitbit<\/a>. &nbsp;These smart rings seem to be geared toward the fashion conscious wearable technology consumer but I\u2019m wondering about its use in education to motivate and encourage students. &nbsp;The ones that look like&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mood_ring\">mood rings<\/a>&nbsp;are particularly fun!!&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-embed-handler wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The Scientific Moodmetric is Not Your Parent&#039;s Mood Ring\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/IcJRvQmwdMc?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Originally by&nbsp;charkirk&nbsp;on January 18, 2017 Much has been written in previous posts about&nbsp;wearable technology&nbsp;so I don\u2019t think I need to go into a lot of&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/2020\/05\/28\/smart-rings\/\">Read more<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Smart Rings<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":29553,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1864","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mobileculture","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1864","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\/29553"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1864"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1864\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1871,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1864\/revisions\/1871"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}