{"id":4276,"date":"2018-01-05T08:40:37","date_gmt":"2018-01-05T15:40:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/stem2018\/?p=4276"},"modified":"2018-01-05T08:40:37","modified_gmt":"2018-01-05T15:40:37","slug":"pet-computers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/stem2018\/2018\/01\/05\/pet-computers\/","title":{"rendered":"Pet Computers?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At the risk of completely dating myself, I distinctly remember my first interaction with computers around Grade 3 as a group of us crowded around a singular Commodore PET computer in the corner of the classroom. Most the time spent with this PET consisted of playing a game where you controlled a virtual fish that could only eat smaller fish; attempting to eat larger fish taught you a hard lesson about ecology.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4277\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/stem2018\/files\/2018\/01\/download.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"253\" height=\"199\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Fast forward to 2012 and a new job as an IT Help Desk Support Technician at Pickering College. Twenty brand new iPads landed in my office with a simple list of requested applications for me to install.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-4278\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/stem2018\/files\/2018\/01\/1572.512-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/stem2018\/files\/2018\/01\/1572.512-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/stem2018\/files\/2018\/01\/1572.512.jpg 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>As a new employee I did what I was told; I installed the apps immediately and placed them in a cart for our Junior School students\/teachers to use. Later, I took it upon myself to observe these iPads being used in the classroom. The students seemed quite engaged in the educational games that the teachers had chosen. A question kept nagging at me though &#8211; after all this time and all the advancements in technology, was this the only outcome? A pet device to &#8220;edu-tain&#8221; students?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At the risk of completely dating myself, I distinctly remember my first interaction with computers around Grade 3 as a group of us crowded around a singular Commodore PET computer in the corner of the classroom. Most the time spent with this PET consisted of playing a game where you controlled a virtual fish that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":42803,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1669384],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4276","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a-auto-e-graphy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/stem2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4276","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/stem2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/stem2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/stem2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/42803"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/stem2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4276"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/stem2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4276\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4279,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/stem2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4276\/revisions\/4279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/stem2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/stem2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/stem2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}