{"id":4857,"date":"2018-01-31T14:00:58","date_gmt":"2018-01-31T21:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/stem2018\/?p=4857"},"modified":"2018-01-31T14:00:58","modified_gmt":"2018-01-31T21:00:58","slug":"extending-the-classroom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/stem2018\/2018\/01\/31\/extending-the-classroom\/","title":{"rendered":"Extending the Classroom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Technology is a tool \u2013 something that helps us improve or accomplish something we couldn\u2019t do before.\u00a0 It may be designed by us, it augments our own abilities, but is outside of ourselves.\u00a0 An ideal TELE is one that immerses students into a deep learning experience into experiencing a concept that could not be shown otherwise, or in a new and collaborative way through the use of technology.\u00a0 This experience must go beyond the traditional experience in some way.<\/p>\n<p>For example, performing a virtual pig dissection is not really a TELE in my opinion, as it gives no extended experience, but doing a human autopsy would be.\u00a0 Writing a digital lab report is not a TELE, but determining molecular shapes using a PhET simulation is. \u00a0Likewise, posting a reflection on-line or creating a slideshow are not TELEs, but having a knowledge forum discussion or creating a collaborative presentation would be.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-4858\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/stem2018\/files\/2018\/01\/Screenshot-15-300x200.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/stem2018\/files\/2018\/01\/Screenshot-15-300x200.png 300w, https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/stem2018\/files\/2018\/01\/Screenshot-15-768x512.png 768w, https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/stem2018\/files\/2018\/01\/Screenshot-15-1024x683.png 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/stem2018\/files\/2018\/01\/Screenshot-15-620x413.png 620w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Technology is a tool \u2013 something that helps us improve or accomplish something we couldn\u2019t do before.\u00a0 It may be designed by us, it augments our own abilities, but is outside of ourselves.\u00a0 An ideal TELE is one that immerses students into a deep learning experience into experiencing a concept that could not be shown [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44810,"featured_media":4859,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1669401],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4857","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-b-design-of-teles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/stem2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4857","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\/44810"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/stem2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4857"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/stem2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4857\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4860,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/stem2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4857\/revisions\/4860"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/stem2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4859"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/stem2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/stem2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/stem2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}