{"id":4418,"date":"2018-01-10T20:24:48","date_gmt":"2018-01-11T03:24:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/stem2018\/?p=4418"},"modified":"2018-01-10T20:24:48","modified_gmt":"2018-01-11T03:24:48","slug":"the-first-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/stem2018\/2018\/01\/10\/the-first-time\/","title":{"rendered":"The First Time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was eight years old when my family got our first computer.\u00a0 I remember the large monitor; the loud clicks of the keys and the mouse.\u00a0 The physical space that the computer took up was immense and over time, the space in our lives that the computer took up grew as well.\u00a0 My siblings and I had the game &#8220;James Discovers Math&#8221; and played it endlessly, nearly wearing out the CD-ROM.\u00a0 We sorted shapes, counted, etc. etc.<\/p>\n<p>I was twenty-nine years old when I watched my two-year old niece teach herself how to play &#8220;Busy Shapes &amp; Colours&#8221; on my iPad.\u00a0 She opened the first game independently and figured out that she needed to drag the coloured object to the shape.\u00a0 The physical space that the iPad takes up is minimal; Isla can find the device and open the game to play without anyone knowing.\u00a0 The impact and space the iPad takes up in our world is significant and pivital.<\/p>\n<p>These two experiences highlight similarities and differences in our history with educational technology.\u00a0 I am a passionate about learning how to responsibly harness and leverage the power of technology to engage all ages.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was eight years old when my family got our first computer.\u00a0 I remember the large monitor; the loud clicks of the keys and the mouse.\u00a0 The physical space that the computer took up was immense and over time, the space in our lives that the computer took up grew as well.\u00a0 My siblings and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31999,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1669384],"tags":[2102],"class_list":["post-4418","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a-auto-e-graphy","tag-module-a"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/stem2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4418","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\/31999"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/stem2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4418"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/stem2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4418\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4425,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/stem2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4418\/revisions\/4425"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/stem2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/stem2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/stem2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}