{"id":145,"date":"2025-03-01T07:37:12","date_gmt":"2025-03-01T14:37:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/keizern\/?p=145"},"modified":"2025-03-01T07:37:55","modified_gmt":"2025-03-01T14:37:55","slug":"linking-assignment-link-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/keizern\/linking-assignment-link-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Linking Assignment &#8211; Link 4"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-wp-embed is-provider-etec-540 wp-block-embed-etec-540\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"Ci3GqX375L\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/quinn540\/task-5\/\">TASK 5<\/a><\/blockquote><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; visibility: hidden;\" title=\"&#8220;TASK 5&#8221; &#8212; ETEC 540\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/quinn540\/task-5\/embed\/#?secret=S46RIdfpTl#?secret=Ci3GqX375L\" data-secret=\"Ci3GqX375L\" width=\"530\" height=\"299\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/quinn540\/task-5\/\">https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/quinn540\/task-5\/<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-f05b2cb90cb6654ff9babf1e1280b947\" style=\"font-size:18px\">I connected with Quinn\u2019s reflection on Task 5, especially the final paragraph, because it resonated with my own experience as a grade school student reading Choose Your Own Adventure books. Like Quinn, I find comfort in reading a book from beginning to end, knowing the story will unfold in a predetermined way and that I won\u2019t miss anything..<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-f49533b4f9d814afa32394c7e72d0656\" style=\"font-size:18px\">Reflecting on Choose Your Own Adventure books and exploring the Twine projects led me to think of other video games. After completing ETEC 544 Digital Game and Learning and exploring The Witcher 3 video game, I continued to play it beyond the course.&nbsp; <em>The Witcher 3<\/em> is highly narrative-driven, with a complex storyline in which your decisions as Geralt influence the plot, character interactions, and available choices. This mirrors real-life decision-making, where choices shape our paths in ways we can\u2019t always predict, however, I often wonder whether I am missing something in the game due to a path I have taken.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-a6bffae67b1b11ffcc44938f606d9f64\" style=\"font-size:18px\">Reflecting further on hypertext and the web, I recognize how often I feel a similar sense of missing out. The sheer volume of available information can be overwhelming when researching a topic. Unless I focus my attention, I struggle to process gathered information, constantly wondering what I might be missing. This illustrates how technology has transformed information-seeking behaviour.&nbsp; As a middle school student, my research process was straightforward\u2014I consulted the World Book Encyclopedia, followed references to related entries, or sought guidance from the school librarian, who would direct me via the Dewey Decimal System to a specific yet small section of books. Today, when my 15-year-old son conducts research, he enters a topic into Google and is confronted with thousands of results. This abundance of links and information presents both opportunities and challenges, making digital literacy an essential skill for today\u2019s students.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I connected with Quinn\u2019s reflection on Task 5, especially the final paragraph, because it resonated with my own experience as a grade school student reading Choose Your Own Adventure books. Like Quinn, I find comfort in reading a book from <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/keizern\/linking-assignment-link-4\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Linking Assignment &#8211; Link 4<\/span><span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":91876,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-145","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-linking-assignment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/keizern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/keizern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/keizern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/keizern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/91876"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/keizern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=145"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/keizern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":147,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/keizern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145\/revisions\/147"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/keizern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/keizern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/keizern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}