{"id":76,"date":"2013-05-08T14:41:28","date_gmt":"2013-05-08T21:41:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/jimubc\/?p=76"},"modified":"2013-05-08T14:41:28","modified_gmt":"2013-05-08T21:41:28","slug":"what-are-they-doing-when-they-nod-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/jimubc\/what-are-they-doing-when-they-nod-off\/","title":{"rendered":"What are they doing when they nod off?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Years ago I came to understand that people bring their world into a classroom. If they are tired or distracted, that comes with them too and sometimes, no matter what I do, people will nod off. I include in that concept the idea the people have wandered off, away from the moment in the classroom. People will succumb to whatever exigencies of life are a higher priority. I understand that. Still, at least in my situation, I think that most people have chosen to be in the room at that time, to participate in a face-to-face learning situation. And to do that they have physically extricated themselves from their day-to-day life to be there. I owe it to them to make it worthwhile.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I hope that you will explore this idea with me<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Please join the conversation\" href=\"http:\/\/teachinginthelandofbyod.wordpress.com\/2013\/05\/08\/what-are-they-doing-when-they-nod-off\/\" target=\"_blank\">More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Years ago I came to understand that people bring their world into a classroom. If they are tired or distracted, that comes with them too and sometimes, no matter what I do, people will nod off. I include in that concept the idea the people have wandered off, away from the moment in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13034,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[211,573,737918],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faculty","category-teaching","category-teaching-in-the-land-of-byod"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/jimubc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/jimubc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/jimubc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/jimubc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13034"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/jimubc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/jimubc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/jimubc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76\/revisions\/77"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/jimubc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/jimubc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/jimubc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}