{"id":4488,"date":"2018-01-12T19:21:05","date_gmt":"2018-01-13T02:21:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/stem2018\/?p=4488"},"modified":"2018-01-12T19:21:05","modified_gmt":"2018-01-13T02:21:05","slug":"good-technology-use","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/stem2018\/2018\/01\/12\/good-technology-use\/","title":{"rendered":"Good Technology Use"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When I think about using technology in the math and science classroom, my mind shoots back to my own schooling experience where we had to march down to a computer lab to research science topics. This brings me to my starting point: <strong>technology use in the classroom todays needs to flow seamlessly within the learning environment.<\/strong> It shouldn\u2019t require an entire class to disrupt their learning to enter a room full of technology. It should be managed in a way where it is available to students in a way that seems natural and not a departure from the ordinary.\u00a0<strong>Good technology use should takes risks.<\/strong> Best practices aren\u2019t magically incubated in some distant laboratory and implemented with great success. Educators must try, fail and improvise in order to find out how to most effectively use the tools at their disposal. <strong>Technology must provide opportunity for differentiation.<\/strong> Whether that is a slightly different assignment option or an avenue for further study. Technology should be flexible enough to effectively scaffold instruction for all students. <strong>Technology should be taught. <\/strong>\u00a0We can\u2019t go on assuming kids have an excellent understanding of technology just because they have grown up around it. Proper implementation of technology requires students to be shown how to use it, to the student\u2019s full potential. Lastly, <strong>technology shouldn\u2019t merely be a replacement for the current status quo.<\/strong> Too many times we replace lined paper with Google Docs simply because we can. Making a replacement is fine as long as there are actual educational benefits.<\/p>\n<p>While not exhaustive, that\u2019s my current list of what constitutes good technology use. This is far from being a concrete list, and will undoubtedly grow throughout the coming weeks of this course.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I think about using technology in the math and science classroom, my mind shoots back to my own schooling experience where we had to march down to a computer lab to research science topics. This brings me to my starting point: technology use in the classroom todays needs to flow seamlessly within the learning [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":49876,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1669385],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4488","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a-unpacking-assumptions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/stem2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4488","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\/49876"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/stem2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4488"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/stem2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4488\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4491,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/stem2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4488\/revisions\/4491"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/stem2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/stem2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/stem2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}