{"id":1236,"date":"2017-01-28T02:45:12","date_gmt":"2017-01-28T09:45:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/stem2017\/?p=1236"},"modified":"2017-01-28T02:45:12","modified_gmt":"2017-01-28T09:45:12","slug":"unpacking-assumptions-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/stem2017\/2017\/01\/28\/unpacking-assumptions-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Unpacking Assumptions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In my class, good use of digital technology must involve visuals and virtual experiments.\u00a0 Since my students are learning science in English, I have to make sure that there are a plethora of visuals to help them to understand the concepts that we are covering in class.\u00a0 We are a desert school and lack laboratory resources to do experiments, for this reason I try to show my students virtual experiments because this is the closest they are going to get to performing experiments in a lab.\u00a0 For various reasons, numerous websites are blocked at school, this is another hurdle that I need to overcome when I want to show my students various information.\u00a0 Technology can address conceptual challenges because it can bring to life the topics and areas in which the students possess the misconceptions in.<\/p>\n<p>Technology in the class faces many roadblocks: money, time, lack of knowledge by the teacher in how to present this technology, or even use it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In my class, good use of digital technology must involve visuals and virtual experiments.\u00a0 Since my students are learning science in English, I have to make sure that there are a plethora of visuals to help them to understand the concepts that we are covering in class.\u00a0 We are a desert school and lack laboratory [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31128,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1669385],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1236","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a-unpacking-assumptions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/stem2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1236","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/stem2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/stem2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/stem2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/31128"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/stem2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1236"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/stem2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1236\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1237,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/stem2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1236\/revisions\/1237"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/stem2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/stem2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/stem2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}