{"id":5819,"date":"2021-03-21T04:53:00","date_gmt":"2021-03-21T11:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/?p=5819"},"modified":"2021-08-31T16:31:23","modified_gmt":"2021-08-31T23:31:23","slug":"integrating-tablet-in-the-classroom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/2021\/03\/21\/integrating-tablet-in-the-classroom\/","title":{"rendered":"Integrating tablet in the classroom"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">There has been talk of improving digital literacy for schools for many years, but with the COVID-19 pandemic, the need for it seems to be more urgent than ever. If digital natives are not learning through the use of digital devices in the classroom, does that make their learning unauthentic? What is your stance on the topic of should children be using tablets in the classroom for learning? <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This is an interesting article which lists some benefits of using tablets in the classroom. <a href=\"https:\/\/mytechclassroom.com\/benefits-of-tablets-in-the-classroom\/\">https:\/\/mytechclassroom.com\/benefits-of-tablets-in-the-classroom\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Here is an article about some parents wanting to reduce the use of digital devices at school:  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/local\/education\/more-students-are-learning-on-laptops-and-tablets-in-class-some-parents-want-to-hit-the-off-switch\/2020\/02\/01\/d53134d0-db1e-11e9-a688-303693fb4b0b_story.html\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/local\/education\/more-students-are-learning-on-laptops-and-tablets-in-class-some-parents-want-to-hit-the-off-switch\/2020\/02\/01\/d53134d0-db1e-11e9-a688-303693fb4b0b_story.html\">https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/local\/education\/more-students-are-learning-on-laptops-and-tablets-in-class-some-parents-want-to-hit-the-off-switch\/2020\/02\/01\/d53134d0-db1e-11e9-a688-303693fb4b0b_story.html <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There has been talk of improving digital literacy for schools for many years, but with the COVID-19 pandemic, the need for it seems to be&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/2021\/03\/21\/integrating-tablet-in-the-classroom\/\">Read more<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Integrating tablet in the classroom<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":74162,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5819","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mobileeducation","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5819","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\/74162"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5819"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5819\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5822,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5819\/revisions\/5822"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec523\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}