{"id":115,"date":"2012-09-11T22:49:56","date_gmt":"2012-09-12T05:49:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lled368\/?p=115"},"modified":"2012-09-11T22:49:56","modified_gmt":"2012-09-12T05:49:56","slug":"my-child-is-going-to-play-with-sidewalk-chalk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lled368\/2012\/09\/11\/my-child-is-going-to-play-with-sidewalk-chalk\/","title":{"rendered":"My child is going to play with sidewalk chalk…"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I spent an hour on Flickr and could not find a single image that inspired me so I decided to use a personal image (I hope that is alright). \u00a0This is a photo taken of my daughter in June. She was just shy of 9 months and yes, she is demonstrating that she knows exactly how a television remote works.<\/p>\n

I have spent years watching my nephew become addicted to technology. I always said that when I had children, there would be a restriction on the amount of technology introduced to them. While I recognize that we are in a digital age and technology is everywhere, I was always determined that my child would have the same upbringing I did: playing in the cul-du-sac, games of hide and seek, drawing hop scotch with my sidewalk chalk, creating my own musicals to perform for neighbours, etc. And yet, at 11 months old, my daughter knows how to guide her finger over my iPhone and point a remote at the television DESPITE my best efforts to limit her exposure to these things.<\/p>\n

Becoming a parent has really changed my perspective on technology and how much we can control its role in the lives of our own children and the children we teach. It has also brought to light, as has been mentioned by others, just how behind I will be technologically compared to my students despite growing up myself with access to computers and internet for most of my childhood. My daughter has changed a lot about me over the past year but specifically, she has changed the way I think about education, and consequently, the role technology has in education. I am now finding a middle ground where I am excited for the opportunities that the new technologies present while also being passionate about the relevance of my less high-tech upbringing. I will go out on a limb and state that I fear some parents rely on technology in place of their own time evidenced by how much children watch television, how much they play video games, reading social networking sites instead of books, etc. We will be seeing the effects of this in our classrooms. I am interested in the ways we as teachers will provide our students with the most positive aspects that technology has to offer while combating the negative effects such as reliability on spell check, addiction to cell phones, etc.<\/p>\n

That being said, I have a LOT to learn about how we can use technology positively in our classrooms and I am excited to do so in this class.<\/p>\n

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  I spent an hour on Flickr and could not find a single image that inspired me so I decided to use a personal image (I hope that is alright). \u00a0This is a photo taken of my daughter in June. She was just shy of 9 months and yes, she is demonstrating that she knows […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15195,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[279],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-115","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-introductions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lled368\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lled368\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lled368\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lled368\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15195"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lled368\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=115"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lled368\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":118,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lled368\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115\/revisions\/118"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lled368\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lled368\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lled368\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}