{"id":4304,"date":"2018-01-05T14:42:42","date_gmt":"2018-01-05T21:42:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/stem2018\/?p=4304"},"modified":"2018-01-05T14:42:42","modified_gmt":"2018-01-05T21:42:42","slug":"missing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/stem2018\/2018\/01\/05\/missing\/","title":{"rendered":"Missing!"},"content":{"rendered":"

In grade 7 I remember our school getting a new computer lab full of \u00a0these brand new green and grey mac computers – it was all very exciting! We seemed to be doing a lot of All the Right Type<\/em> and using the Paint <\/em>program. One additional program we used really had an impact on me.<\/p>\n

We had discussions about internet safety and giving personal details out online. Then, we played this game called Missing<\/em>. I had to Google the game to retrieve all the details but, it seems you follow the story of a boy named Zack who meets a man, Fantasma, online. Fantasma and Zack meet up and Fantasma ends up taking Zach. Then, the student plays the game and works with a detective to rescue Zach. What really stands out in my memory is that I failed the mission and didn\u2019t save Zack! It was very scary for me to think about! And then, as we often do in schools, we moved on and I never felt like it was discussed further or I didn\u2019t have the opportunity to have another go.<\/p>\n

This story makes me think about the issues around internet safety and how they are still present today. However, in addition to being safe online, there are so many other things we must think about as educators \u2013 for example, teaching our students to be good digital citizens and the impact of social media on them. Do you think that one of these issues is more important than the other? What should we be discussing with young children and what should we be saving for later? \u00a0These are just a couple of the current questions I\u2019m thinking about.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In grade 7 I remember our school getting a new computer lab full of \u00a0these brand new green and grey mac computers – it was all very exciting! We seemed to be doing a lot of All the Right Type and using the Paint program. One additional program we used really had an impact on […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":52229,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1669384],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4304","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\/4304","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\/52229"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/stem2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4304"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/stem2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4304\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4305,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/stem2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4304\/revisions\/4305"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/stem2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/stem2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/stem2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}