{"id":2475,"date":"2017-05-24T11:37:16","date_gmt":"2017-05-24T18:37:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/stem2017\/?p=2475"},"modified":"2017-05-24T11:37:16","modified_gmt":"2017-05-24T18:37:16","slug":"pedagogy-and-technology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/stem2017\/2017\/05\/24\/pedagogy-and-technology\/","title":{"rendered":"Pedagogy and Technology"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Use of technology in any classroom (not just science) should begin with teacher pedagogy first and technology second. \u00a0There are many efficiencies that technology affords us and they should be embraced. \u00a0One such efficiency I utilize on a daily basis is the Google Apps for Education; this suite of applications includes Google Classroom, Google Drive, Docs, and Sheets among others. \u00a0These tools have allowed students and educators the ability to collaborate in a virtual environment much easier. \u00a0Students who are absent because of illness or vacation are able to keep up to date and group work is much more efficient as all students have access to all documents regardless of where they are. \u00a0I, as an educator, am able to keep tabs on student progress at my convenience and can provide feedback instantly. \u00a0I have the privilege to be teaching at a school that requires students to bring their own device &#8211; the recommended device being a ChromeBook.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">In the science classroom, teachers can utilize technology such as simulations to aid in student learning. \u00a0Using a gravity simulator can allow students to adjust different parameters and observe how it affects different objects or motion. \u00a0From our example last week, using simulations can allow students to see how direct and indirect sunlight impact our seasons, or how the position of the moon creates different phases. \u00a0When students are able to get hands on experience and see the results of their actions (such as moving the sun around, or changing the tilt of the earth), then I think they will have deeper learning.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Baljeet<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Use of technology in any classroom (not just science) should begin with teacher pedagogy first and technology second. \u00a0There are many efficiencies that technology affords us and they should be embraced. \u00a0One such efficiency I utilize on a daily basis is the Google Apps for Education; this suite of applications includes Google Classroom, Google Drive, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44977,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1669385],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2475","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\/2475","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\/44977"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/stem2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2475"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/stem2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2475\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2476,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/stem2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2475\/revisions\/2476"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/stem2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/stem2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/stem2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}