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I risk dating myself here… my earliest memory of using technology was the old TRS-80 from Radio Shack. It had something ridiculous like 16k of internal memory and we hooked it up to our TV. Because it had no internal memory, we would sit in front of the TV and type in code from a thick book in order to make it do anything. One day we finally upgraded to an external cassette tape drive<\/a> we could use to save the code we had typed in.<\/p>\n So… I take great pleasure in saying I have been “coding” since I was seven-years-old.<\/p>\n I have many memories of using technology with sketchy methods of saving work, including cassette tapes, floppy disks, hard disks… up to now where I am a fan of cloud computing.<\/p>\n My first memory of teaching with technology, especially related to math, was my first year of teaching. My mentor teacher got me started on “project lighthouse” in which we got funds for release time to build web pages that could be used in our classroom. Back then, a static page with links was still pretty innovative (at least in my mind). I think we’ve come such a long way from using technology as a “use it when you’re finished the real work” time filler to a place where it truly redefines the work we ask of students in the classroom.<\/p>\n It’s stunning to see how far technology has come and I imagine my young learners in 30 years will look back on the tools we use in the classroom today as being quaint attempts at innovative technology.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I risk dating myself here… my earliest memory of using technology was the old TRS-80 from Radio Shack. It had something ridiculous like 16k of internal memory and we hooked it up to our TV. Because it had no internal memory, we would sit in front of the TV and type in code from a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":43597,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1669384],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4280","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\/4280","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\/43597"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/stem2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4280"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/stem2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4280\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4282,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/stem2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4280\/revisions\/4282"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/stem2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/stem2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/stem2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}