{"id":787,"date":"2017-01-05T10:30:44","date_gmt":"2017-01-05T17:30:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/stem2017\/?p=787"},"modified":"2017-01-05T10:32:48","modified_gmt":"2017-01-05T17:32:48","slug":"encounter-with-windows-98","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/stem2017\/2017\/01\/05\/encounter-with-windows-98\/","title":{"rendered":"Encounter with Windows 98"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My first encounter with digital technology came in a computer lab in grade 6.\u00a0 There was a strange scent in the computer lab very likely coming from the computer hardware at the time.\u00a0 At first it was discovery of solitaire, then the struggle of focusing between learning windows, office etc and playing solitaire.<\/p>\n<p>It is memorable simply because it was something different from the ho-hum of a regular classroom.\u00a0 Computer Lab day was exciting as it meant learning something different, on a device where there is a screen at my finger tips, a mouse and a keyboard that let me do whatever I wanted, until of course the teacher scolded to get on task.<\/p>\n<p>The question this raises is: how should a new technology be best managed from a teacher&#8217;s perspective so that the students exposed to that technology make the best out of the technology&#8217;s intended use?<\/p>\n<p>Thanks<\/p>\n<p>Vibhu<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My first encounter with digital technology came in a computer lab in grade 6.\u00a0 There was a strange scent in the computer lab very likely coming from the computer hardware at the time.\u00a0 At first it was discovery of solitaire, then the struggle of focusing between learning windows, office etc and playing solitaire. It is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44473,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1669384],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-787","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a-auto-e-graphy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/stem2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/787","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\/44473"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/stem2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=787"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/stem2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/787\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":790,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/stem2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/787\/revisions\/790"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/stem2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/stem2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/stem2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}