{"id":816,"date":"2017-01-05T19:16:20","date_gmt":"2017-01-06T02:16:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/stem2017\/?p=816"},"modified":"2017-01-05T19:16:20","modified_gmt":"2017-01-06T02:16:20","slug":"excessive-print-job","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/stem2017\/2017\/01\/05\/excessive-print-job\/","title":{"rendered":"Excessive Print Job"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When I was in grade 3 or 4, my family had a computer in the basement.\u00a0 It ran Windows 95 and my parents installed a handful of games on it that I would like.\u00a0 I loved the exploration games.\u00a0 I also loved to research.\u00a0 One evening, I decided I wanted to learn more about our beautiful country, so I decided to print an article from Encyclopedia Britannica on Canada.\u00a0 What I didn\u2019t know how to do yet was to find out how many pages a document would print.\u00a0 It turned out that the document was over 100 pages long.\u00a0 As the pages poured out of the printer, my dad came downstairs.\u00a0 I was in a minor panic mode at this point, afraid that I was going to be in trouble.\u00a0 It turned out that I wasn\u2019t in trouble, and he took the opportunity to teach me how to copy and paste sections into another document, how to check printer settings, etc.\u00a0 I learned from my mistake and never repeated it.\u00a0 My dad\u2019s patient approach to the situation turned it into a positive experience for me.<\/p>\n<p>Questions that this memory brings to my mind at the moment are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>When we have multiple students working on multiple devices simultaneously, how can we as educators best capture teachable moments for technological literacy?<\/li>\n<li>Do we inadvertently discourage students from experimenting with technology when we focus on cost of supplies and efficient use of resources in the wake of seemingly ever-decreasing budgets?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I was in grade 3 or 4, my family had a computer in the basement.\u00a0 It ran Windows 95 and my parents installed a handful of games on it that I would like.\u00a0 I loved the exploration games.\u00a0 I also loved to research.\u00a0 One evening, I decided I wanted to learn more about our [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":47473,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1669384],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-816","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\/816","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\/47473"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/stem2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=816"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/stem2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/816\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":817,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/stem2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/816\/revisions\/817"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/stem2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/stem2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/stem2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}